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CLO funds make best of a bad situation
1 year ago
It can’t get any worse can it? Well, it did in 2022, when credit spreads kept moving wider. Still, CLO funds were able to withstand the pressure, and they outperformed other credit strategies -
Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
1 year ago
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs), Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. -
"This ‘higher rates for longer’ saga is more like the 1920-21 depression than the 1970s high inflation era"
1 year ago
Sometimes you have to swallow your medicine and take a step back to go forwards -
Grifols basis opportunity opens as investors eye bond-CDS compression
1 year ago
The spread differential between Grifols’ CDS and its B3/B-/B+ rated €1 billion 3.2% senior unsecured 2025 bonds has opened up a positive basis-trade opportunity -
Fund performance: Wake us up when September ends
1 year ago
After a resurgent August, credit markets hit a rough patch in September, with every Creditflux index posting negative returns, and only 12.9% of funds in our listings showing a positive return. -
Credit faces blind spot as borrowers enter higher default cycle: BNP Paribas
1 year ago
With short term rates outstripping nominal GDP growth, the credit cycle is entering its next and final stage – one in which corporate defaults will pick up but high quality borrowers should outperform -
Spreads trace worryingly familiar arc as investors take good news as bad and bad new worse
1 year ago
Credit spreads are pushing ever closer towards the year’s peak levels, continuing Wednesday a sell off that began on Tuesday, with positive US economic data perversely sparking a bearish shift in financial assets that negative European data has since compounded -
Credit PM pair seek galaxy of opportunities with long/short fund manager launch
1 year ago
Two experienced portfolio managers have set up a new venture to take advantage of volatile markets -
Real estate is about to get real bad: Welshcake
1 year ago
The extent of disconnect between real estate and what other markets have been experiencing is enough to convince me a whole other layer of economic mayhem is on the way. But investors in credit, for all their current pain, could still end up shining if they are prepared -
"Derivative longs versus cash corporate shorts looks attractive, especially if we see a market sell-off"
2 years ago
Technicals are keeping cash credit spreads tight, but as central banks reduce purchases there will be relative value opportunities -
"If omicron paradoxically lowers the temperature of the market, that may be no bad thing"
2 years ago
The global economy is well protected against omicron — and a mild infection may be beneficial -
Millennium senior tranche trader jumps to Verition
2 years ago
An experienced synthetic structured credit trader has left Millennium Management in New York to join Greenwich headquartered Verition Fund Management -
"China can act how it wants and when it wants in curbing the ambitions of tech firms… but sell offs tend to be opportunities for new buyer
2 years ago
China's latest moves to rein in private enterprise with new rules for education providers have certainly intensified the regulation risk landscape - but Welshcake asks whether this forthrightness could be instructive -
Publishing boost for French firm but China sours wider market
2 years ago
Lagardere is a notable positive outlier in another off day for the credit market, after China turmoil rocked stocks and sent spreads wider -
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 -
"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 -
Natixis IM hires CEO with incumbent Raby set to depart
3 years ago
Natixis Investment Managers has hired Generali's chief investment officer to lead the firm from 12 April -
Compression trades grind into gear as spreads narrow
3 years ago
Compression between high yield and investment grade credit looks to be finally gaining traction in February, having been identified by some strategists at the start of the year as a key 2021 theme -
CDS indices edge wider and positive skew opens as Pershing Square puts on new hedge
3 years ago
Credit indices have widened a touch this week but they’re back in focus with reports that Pershing Square Capital Management, led by Bill Ackman, has this week used CDS indices to hedge parts of its equity portfolio -
Squarepoint adds former bank credit trading head in London
3 years ago
Squarepoint Capital, a cross-asset fund manager that uses systematic and quantitative strategies, has hired a former global credit trading head at Societe Generale to lead fixed income, currencies and commodities alpha capture -
Curves and skews come back into play as CDS volumes swell
3 years ago
The rapid growth of the CDS market during the coronavirus pandemic has been consolidated in the second quarter, with investors putting on trades not seen in such volume since the 2008 financial crisis. -
Index tranche volumes go into overdrive as CSOs stall
3 years ago
CDS index tranche trading has gathered pace during the coronavirus pandemic, putting the asset class on course for a post-2008 crisis record. -
SocGen promotes cross-asset solutions specialist
3 years ago
Societe Generale has named a global head of economics, cross-asset and quant research -
There will surely be jewels in the high yield dung heap, but the risk-reward is more compelling in IG
3 years ago
Whatever the long-term effects of the pandemic, one thing stays the same: IG looks attractive -
Ecuador auction final list points to 67 cents pay-out on CDS
4 years ago
A credit event auction next week to settle Ecuador sovereign CDS will have 10 deliverable obligations, according to a final list published by the Americas Determinations Committtee
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