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China crackdown and Fed meeting rattle nerves
2 years ago
Credit spreads widened as financial markets began the week on a less certain footing amid panic stock selling in China and a retreat to treasuries ahead of the US Federal Reserve two-day monetary policy meeting -
UK pension allocates £2.1 billion to CQS, Neuberger and Oaktree
2 years ago
Three global credit managers have won a total of £2.1 billion in credit mandates from Brunel Pension Partnership, as part of its newly launched Multi Asset Credit Fund. -
It's all relative: IG index drifts wide of 50bp as European CLO triple Bs outperform
2 years ago
US investment grade credit has been an underperformer in the last few weeks with CDX IG trading north of 50 basis points again. But European CLO triple Bs are looking strong while there is a stronger bid for two- to three-year paper in the US -
Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
2 years ago
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives. -
Squarepoint draws big name options market maker to buy side
2 years ago
An experienced credit options trader has decided to join the systematic and quant strategies manager in a change of career from working on the sell side -
Green QE is future, says BofA
2 years ago
Last week's European Central Bank strategy review confirmed that climate change policies will dictate the shape of future asset purchases, say Bank of America credit strategists -
CSO pipeline strengthens following ESG breakthrough
2 years ago
ESG criteria and longer investment horizons are driving new business in a resurgent bespoke tranche market, say dealers. And while this is unlikely to get 2021 near to a 2019-like haul of deals by year end, hopes are high that volume is firmly back on an upwards traject -
Credit spreads gap wider as growth fears rock market
2 years ago
Credit indices have gapped wider and stocks slumped, with government bonds making gains, amid rising concern about future economic growth prospects and the impact of central bank policy -
Fund performance: Déjà vu as April leaders dominate
2 years ago
CLO funds stayed in the top flight for another month as they took over the top 10 credit hedge fund return table in May, when 87% of all funds listed made positive returns -
Ucits at a glance: Ucits stay positive for second month in a row
2 years ago
Ultra-tight credit spreads are not taking away from Ucits funds – 80% of funds in our database have again recorded positive returns. -
"Pain is on the way: spreads are too tight, while compression and carry are done. But what if it's not?"
2 years ago
Welshcake reminds us that mid-cycle portfolio management is a funny old game -
Credit index tranche trading on the rise amid low dispersion
2 years ago
At its halfway point, 2021 is shaping up as another big year for credit index tranche trading, with new investors having entered the market and dealers projecting full-year volume could vie with 2020’s record of recent times. -
Credit grind pushes back volatility bets
2 years ago
With recent weeks having all-but crushed volatility from the market, uncertainty about the timing of future risk triggers is leading credit options traders to spurn traditional horizons to focus on longer-dated expiries -
Credit slumbers in departure lounge as airline equities take off
2 years ago
Credit and equity markets have been in a balancing act on Tuesday between the positive and negative implications of surging oil prices and Germany opting to relax travel restrictions -
French food producer gets cold shoulder following bond issue
2 years ago
Picard, the French frozen foods producer, is one of the biggest movers in the European high yield market on Monday, after investors showed little warmth for its new bond issue in the secondary market -
All eyes on NFP as credit seeks exit from 'no man's land'
2 years ago
Credit markets look to be ending wider on the week but, with focus mainly on today's US non-farm payroll numbers, the lack of movement in early trading could give way to a stronger directional play ahead of the long US weekend -
Tranche trader leaves Apollo for sell side
2 years ago
BNP Paribas has filled a gap in its structured credit trading group with the hire of an index tranche market maker -
It's all relative: CDX HY touches record tights but junior US CLO tranches leak wider
2 years ago
Credit spreads are marching tighter, but someone forgot to tell the CLO market. European and US CDS spreads have moved in step with each other for the most part with investment grade and high yield tightening 4-6% in the last week, whereas CLOs have been losing ground -
Chicken supplier takes courage from earnings improvement
2 years ago
Boparan, one of the riskiest companies in the European high yield credit market, is among the biggest movers in bonds and CDS on Wednesday, as the market resumes its rally to the tightest prints of the year -
Triple Bs in the firing line as Fed turns hawkish, says BofA
2 years ago
Triple B and long duration credit are likely to be casualties of tightening central bank policy, Bank of America strategists have warned. But high yield and cyclical investment grade sectors could fare better -
Capital Group hires senior portfolio manager from AB in London
2 years ago
Capital Group has drafted in an investment director in London as it targets European investors -
Credit indices hit impasse after US high yield returns to pre-covid tights
2 years ago
Credit improvement looks to be taking a breather on Thursday after the compression play in CDS indices took US high yield index CDX HY to its tightest prints since February 2020, before the outbreak of covid-19 began to blow out spreads -
Shipping firm adds buoyancy amid few signs of choppiness in credit
2 years ago
CMA CGM, the French container shipping company, is a big mover today amid very calm waters elsewhere in credit. -
Novicap tech platform targets credit investors with fundraising drive
2 years ago
Novicap, a fintech company offering working capital optimisation solutions to SMEs and mid-market corporates, is looking to debt capital markets participants such as credit and structured credit funds, asset managers, pension companies and insurers as it seeks to raise third-party funding for its credit platform -
"In the afternoon I awoke from a pile of willow leaves to discover we had created a Welsh ether-based token"
2 years ago
A localised crypto-currency boom and bust cycle teaches Welshcake (again) that everything becomes correlated in a downturn
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