Retail Greek Corp bonds

doobs · Post by **doobs** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:18 pm

Is it possible to access the Greek Corp bond market for my small PA?

Cheng · Post by **Cheng** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:46 pm

Why not ? Some of that stuff trades in EUR 1000 lots I guess (without having anything special in mind). What are you looking for ? EEEK ?

doobs · Post by **doobs** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:25 pm

say I want to get credit exposure to the stuff in FTSE/Athex 20 Capped Index...Helenic Telecom, Public Power Corp...

Cheng · Post by **Cheng** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:18 am

Lemme see...

HTOGA 5 08/05/2013 @94.628/95.670 trades in retail size (the others probably also, didn't check)

PPC has no bonds outstanding

EEEK same as above

ELPE same as above

PPA same as above

OPAP same as above

I just picked a few names that might be of interest, excluding banks. The issue is probably that there are not that many bonds outstanding at all.

doobs · Post by **doobs** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:08 pm

Trades in retail size OTC? or is there an organized exchange for these?

Cheng · Post by **Cheng** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:16 pm

I know guys who bought HTOGA for their PA in retail size. Those trades went through an exchange. Most exchanges I checked offered something, bid-ask makes the difference.

Cheng · Post by **Cheng** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:18 pm

HTOGA 5 08/05/2013 is 95.00/95.76 right now, size is 1,000 EUR.