Topic:Fixed Income investment outside US.

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1.A comparison of the government and corporate bond markets between the US and XYZ (a country market of your choice)

The comparison could benchmark against the size of say the equities markets.You might want to comment on the latest development of the market, uniqueness of the market and the opportunities there.

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2.Pick two USD denominated corporate bonds of different sector (e.g. financials, utilities, telecom etc) from XYZ (a country market of your choice other than US) and compare them against the comparable ones from US.

Please take the credit ratings of the bonds in discussion as well as the benchmark bonds (comparable US treasuries) into consideration when doing the analysis.

Your might want to check out "fundsupermart" when digging out various bonds.Please just use USD denominated bonds for easier comparison.(Kindly note that not all companies have USD denominated bonds though.)