Bloomberg China’s bond market may be the world’s third largest, but when it comes to luring foreign investors, Beijing has a long road ahead. Norges Bank Investment Management, steward of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, proposed last week to limit its benchmark index for bond holdings to just three currencies — dollar, euro and sterling. The role of its ...

Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. is getting ready to return to overseas debt markets for the second time in two months after issuing $4.5 billion in dollar-denominated subordinated notes in July. Headed by billionaire Masayoshi Son, SoftBank is accelerating deal-making around the world, and has been in discussions to combine its US wireless operator Sprint Corp. with a potential partner. The ...

Bloomberg Mark Mobius has given his blessing to a new venue that would permit dual-class shares. Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd.’s plan that would allow dual-class companies to list at a bourse away from the city’s main exchange “is probably the answer,” said Mobius, executive chairman at Templeton Emerging Markets Group. “People can make a choice, if they don’t ...