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" CLOs do not introduce more credit risk, nor do they offer less liquidity, than comparable products"
1 year ago
The pressure facing some banks is self-inflicted. Their portfolios lack exposure to CLOs -
"Watch the IG credit curve — we may see steepening of IG 5s10s and flattening of 10s30s"
3 years ago
Stimulus measures are supporting short tenors, and pension demand for 30-year paper is strong, so 10-year IG credit may have few buyers -
CLO naysayers have made arb and cov-lite into dirty words — that should now change
3 years ago
Recent performance has shown that cov-lite loans and challenging arb don’t spell doom for CLOs -
We need to remove CLO misinformation from the market
3 years ago
Vibrant's Kashyap Arora takes our credit quiz -
They should have followed Revlon's Double Twist mascara slogan of 2009: "It's worth a double take"
3 years ago
Blockchain might not eradicate all problems in credit, but it should reduce human error -
Investors take comfort from an active secondary market, but liquidity can be a mixed blessing
3 years ago
One of the most interesting characteristics of credit behaviour during the coronavirus era has been the momentum of junk bonds, with sharp changes in issuer and investor confidence around the asset class driven by technical factors: near-zero interest rates, the Fed’s support of fallen angels and skewed-to-worse ratings for leveraged loans -
CLO investors should be able to see live secondary trading levels
4 years ago
Olga Chernova of Sancus Capital takes our credit quiz -
The opportunities to build par and spread within a CLO haven’t been this plentiful since 2009
4 years ago
Last year’s CLOs could become the benchmark for manager performance -
Private credit is not overcrowded — there is four times as much private equity dry powder
4 years ago
With much negative reporting around private credit, our columnist debunks oft-heard complaints -
If national income were a four-cylinder engine, the US economy is really only firing on one
4 years ago
The US economy’s reliance on consumers increases the likelihood of further rate cuts and diminishing returns for credit investors -
CLOs are pricing with an acronym premium rather than an illiquidity premium
John Popp of Credit Suisse Asset Management takes our credit quiz
4 years ago -
Experience has taught me to be sceptical of second lien loans
5 years ago
Alex Jackson takes our credit quiz -
Bubble-watchers cite the popularity of leveraged lending as evidence against it
5 years ago
Growth in direct lending has been strong — but the sector is tiny compared to equities or bonds -
Past returns: Columbia wins at long game
5 years ago
Ten years ago in Creditflux we reported on loan and bond holders squabbling as they sought to extract maximum value from LyondellBasell debt after the company filed for bankruptcy in January 2009 -
Private credit managers are partially insulated from daily market moves — for them it’s the dough, not the Dow
5 years ago
If asked about credit investing, Yogi Berra might have said take the fork in the road leading to private credit, says our columnist Randy Schwimmer -
Loan managers need an equity-like mindset instead of relying on docs
5 years ago
Octagon's Lauren Basmadjian takes our credit quiz and talks about buying CLO equity in 2009, the impact of technology on the retail sector and Eddie Murphy's 1980s heyday -
Join the debate: most memorable moment in credit
6 years ago
At Creditflux we’ve now produced 200 monthly magazines since Fishknife first came up with the idea of tracking the global credit markets in 2001). We asked several key credit industry officials about their most memorable moment in credit -
How credit fraud could make a comeback
6 years ago
Easy credit leads inevitably to fraud, whether in consumer credit or corporate lending -
Leveraging mid-market loans could be disastrous
7 years ago
StoneCastle’s Joshua Siegel takes our credit quiz
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