Are SME bonds a good alternative to eurozone debt?

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With SME corporations the most starved of access to credit across UK business, Chris Maule, CEO of UK Bond Network, explains how investors are able to access attractive and secured yields through SME bonds

Eurozone bonds have faced difficult conditions over the last few months. Now the markets are braced for a summer issuance drought, which looks set to generate fresh price swings as the European Central Bank (ECB) presses ahead with its bond-buying plan.  This should perhaps come as no surprise given the size of the ECB's quantitative easing programme which began in March, and will inject around €60bn a month into the European economy until September 2016.  However, despite the ECB saying it would scale back its 'big bazooka' programme of asset purchases in July and August, this drough...

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