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Credit grind makes it five days out of five in bullish week
2 years ago
Credit markets are heading into the weekend on a fifth straight day of improving spreads, amid signs of returning economic confidence and appetite to invest in the asset class -
Financials and high yield outperform as rally gathers momentum
2 years ago
Credit spreads are enjoying a second day of improvement to regain some of the ground they lost last week, with Italian banks, commodity traders and higher yielding borrowers among outperformers in a broad rally of both indices and single name borrowers -
Climate change pair trade delivers as oil companies' CDS widens
2 years ago
A climate change pair trade proposed by Anthropocene in March has come good with Norwegian oil company Equinor’s CDS outperforming Total, a French oil company -
Commodity inflation sends Asia spreads back to wides
2 years ago
Asian credit and stocks added to a rough few days with further sell offs on Thursday, outpacing deterioration in other regions -
Sell-off regathers momentum as inflation signals mount
2 years ago
A glum mood has returned to financial markets, beginning with the US session on Tuesday and overspilling into global trading on Wednesday -
Financials and high yield corps retrace tighter after inflation shake out
2 years ago
Credit markets firmed up on Tuesday, with European single name CDS finding a chance to recover some ground after Monday's inflation-led weakness. But credit indices underperformed, struggling to return tighter even as stock indices advanced once again and oil prices hit new highs -
Credit underperformance resumes as equity turns corner
2 years ago
Credit markets are pushing wider once again on Wednesday, even though stock markets look to regaining some composure following Tuesday's steep sell off -
Fund performance: Lightning strikes twice as range of credit funds deliver
What seemed like a chance occurrence in February has struck again in March, as seven categories make our top 10 best performing hedge funds -
Credit hedge funds (May 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: Altana moves into pole position
2 years ago
March marked a drop in pace for Ucits funds as only 62% of funds made positive returns, compared to 80% in February -
Telecom Italia spreads dial up as Draghi disconnects network plan
2 years ago
Telecom Italia is among Thursday's underperforming credits in Europe, after the country's prime minister Mario Draghi scrapped plans for a single national fibre network -
Credit and stocks regain composure on rates as oil hits new heights
2 years ago
Credit and equity markets have improved again on Wednesday morning, after US treasury secretary Janet Yellen's comments about possible rate rises spooked markets on Tuesday afternoon -
M&A drives movers in high yield and investment grade
2 years ago
Acquisition talks are having the biggest impact on European credit spreads on Tuesday following the UK bank holiday, with several names moving against an otherwise flat market -
Banks set to offer client clearing of credit index options
2 years ago
Bank members of LCH, the London Stock Exchange's clearing arm, will soon start offering client clearing of CDS index options, as the industry prepares for its next ramp up of margining requirements -
Spread tightening picks up with single names making good ground
2 years ago
The credit market rally picked up its pace on Thursday, after several days of more incremental movement. A notable feature is that single names are picking up the shift and in numerous cases outperforming rather than lagging indices -
Saipem moves sharply on Mozambique moans
2 years ago
Saipem, the Italian energy engineering group, was a big underperformer in a flattish credit market on Wednesday, as uncertainty over a project in Mozambique weighed on first quarter results and its outlook for the year -
Swiss bank credit and equity diverges as it taps investors for $2 billion
2 years ago
Credit Suisse put credit and equity investors on different paths Thursday as it looked to raise nearly $2 billion to improve its finances -
Huarong resumes sharp rally as China weighs asset support
2 years ago
China Huarong Asset Manager rallied sharply in the credit market on Wednesday amid media reports China’s central bank could assume some of the state-owned bad debt manager’s assets -
Tobacco splutters in broad market sell off
2 years ago
Credit and equity are under pressure on Tuesday as markets pull back from their improved levels amid concerns about the worsening global covid-19 picture. But tobacco companies have their own problems to contend with, with the US considering a proposal to require lower nicotine levels in cigarettes and other countries also looking to curb sales -
Lord Abbett prepares special situations interval fund
2 years ago
Lord Abbett is preparing to launch a new special situations fund in the form of an interval fund -
Credit Rendezvous: ready and waiting
2 years ago
In Creditflux's quarterly review of credit, portfolio managers tell us that Inflation is likely to nudge higher but they are optimistic because dispersion will pick up and windows of volatility will emerge, rather than elongated phases of stress -
China contagion fears linger as Huarong rebounds
2 years ago
China Huarong Asset Manager, the state-owned bad debt manager, is back on a path to improvement after shocking markets by delaying its annual report. But questions remain over the extent of government support and the ripple effects to the wider credit market -
Credit fundraising: Goldman Sachs direct lending fund takes March figures to $23 bn
3 years ago
Credit funds sprung forward in March as $23 billion was raised alongside $2.6 billion worth of allocations to credit managers. -
"IG investors might want to rethink the instrument, but they need not fear rising rates just yet"
3 years ago
In his latest column for Creditflux, Cheyne's Duncan Sankey writes that the sharp rise in 10-year US treasuries could be positive for investment grade investors, but value is in CDS rather than bonds -
Hermes seeks ESG alpha in companies making changes
3 years ago
Buy-side demand to tick boxes for ESG standards has fuelled a boom in green and social impact bonds that is extending into high yield issuance. But as investment opportunities mount, so does soul-searching about the next phase
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