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The tremendous growth of separately managed accounts in the municipal market has been spurred on by higher yields, lower fees, the desire for deeper customization along with improvements in technology. Some participants on the Street estimate that SMAs hold as much as $1.5 trillion of munis while others peg it closer to $1 trillion to

An active primary market was the focus Wednesday with the New York City TFA pricing for institutions with small changes to yields from its Tuesday retail offering, Massachusetts upsizing its GO refunding deal and Wisconsin selling green bonds in the competitive market. Triple-A muni yield curves were mostly little changed to a basis point of

Law firm McGuireWoods has hired Jackie Wells, a former director in the enforcement department of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, as part of the continued expansion of its securities enforcement and regulatory counseling practice. Wells, who joins the international law firm’s New York office as counsel, spent eight years at FINRA, the private corporation that

Rating agencies affirmed Denver Health and Hospital Authority (DHHA) bonds at BBB with stable outlooks, citing improved operating performance. The affirmations came in the wake of concerns raised last month by the public safety net health system that an influx of migrants from the southern border was contributing to escalating uncompensated care costs. Denver Health

Municipal bonds are part of an Illinois city’s plan to help the local casino build a bigger venue at a new location. In its current form, Aurora’s Hollywood Casino occupies a barge tethered near downtown on the Fox River. The city wants to build a brand new casino resort about five miles away, near an

Gilt-edged Washington Suburban Sanitary District, Maryland, is offering $329 million of revenue bonds via a competitive sale Thursday that may help set the tone for triple-A yield curves that have been contending with U.S. Treasury market volatility in recent sessions.   The consolidated public improvement debt is being issued under the supervision of the Washington Suburban Sanitary

As infrastructure funding hangs up in obligation limitations and contract authority rules, state governments and federal lawmakers are already eyeing the possibility of reauthorizing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The $1.2 trillion BIL, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, represents the crowning legislative achievement for the Biden Administration. But the inflation unleashed by

The focus shifted fully into the primary market Tuesday as the secondary took a backseat to large new-issues pricing in both negotiated and competitive markets while U.S. Treasuries halted its two-day sell off to see gains on the day. Equities ended mixed. Munis were little changed Tuesday, as UST yields fell six to nine basis

A struggling Iowa hospital’s sale to its primary competitor through a bankruptcy proceeding has closed. In a case filing by Iowa City-based Mercy Hospital, the notice of sale closing made official the hospital’s sale to the University of Iowa through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process. Mercy filed for bankruptcy in August, thwarting a push by

The major Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bond parties asked the bankruptcy judge to adjourn or stay all bankruptcy proceedings due the potential profound implications of an anticipated First Circuit Court of Appeals decision on their appeal. U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain said the existing confirmation schedule and related deadlines “remain in place

Hawaii’s first-of-its-kind per-mile fee for vehicles marks the latest and most extensive effort yet among states seeking to offset the fading fuel tax. Signed into law by Gov. Josh Green last July, the law requires EVs to pay a per-mile charge or an annual fee by 2025 and will require all vehicles to pay a

Public-sector backers of a proposed bond-financed crude oil-transporting railway in Utah are turning to the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress in an effort to get the project back on track. The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition plans to seek the high court’s review of an August U.S. Appeals Court ruling that derailed the Uinta Basin Railway.

Illinois’ Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability on Thursday released its Special Pension Briefing on the state-funded retirement systems’ fiscal 2023 actuarial reports. The report said the five pension systems’ unfunded liability climbed to a market value of $142.2 billion at the end of fiscal 2023 on June 30 from $139.8 billion in 2022, with

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Transcription: Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio for the authoritative record. Lynne Funk (00:03): Hello everyone and welcome to another Bond Buyer podcast. I’m Lynne Funk, executive

It was not long ago that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), a historic tax-reform package, came together seemingly overnight and reshaped the U.S. tax code while also reshaping the municipal bond market by eliminating tax-exempt advance refundings.   Once the dust settled, a retrospective review illuminated further near disasters, with Senate Republicans saving private

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“Did you ever have to make up your mind? Pick up on one and leave the other one behind?It’s not often easy, and not often kind.” The song by the Lovin’ Spoonful could describe the Scylla and Charybdis dilemma banks face during the war between red and blue state government finance officials over environmental, social

Corpus Christi is moving forward with Texas’ first seawater desalination treatment plant for municipal use with the aim of providing the Gulf Coast city a drought-proof water supply. In a 6-2 vote last week, the city council approved several measures including the issuance of $221 million of utility system senior lien revenue improvement bonds to

Guam’s latest proposed budget was hailed by analysts who said its approach should be copied by other U.S. territories. Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero proposed a 5.9% bigger general fund budget for fiscal 2025 days after Moody’s Investors Service raised the territory’s general obligation bonds to investment grade (Baa3) from speculative grade (Ba1); the first time

Municipals sold off Monday following U.S. Treasuries, which saw another session of large losses, as investors digested the likelihood of later and fewer Federal Reserve rate cuts. . Equities ended down. Triple-A muni yields rose 10 to 13 basis points, with the largest losses on the short end, while USTs saw yields rise 11 to14

Municipal bond market experts say a new form of cyberattack, driven by different motives than ransomware, is on the rise. So-called “havoc-based attacks” are launched simply to cause damage to the victims, in contrast to the financial motives behind ransomware. Congressional testimony last week from the FBI director and federal cybersecurity director about China “further