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Cheyne returns to SRT market with eye-catching hire
19 days ago
Cheyne Capital has re-entered the significant/synthetic risk transfer (SRT) market, bringing on an industry veteran to act as portfolio manager -
Relative to Airbus, Boeing was long accountants but short engineers
23 days ago
A qualitative approach can help investors spot boards that are too focused on short-term returns -
Fund performance: European CLO funds lead the way
1 year ago
February was a positive month for many funds, as only one quarter failed to reach the black. This builds off a stellar start to the year: 96% of funds reached a positive return in January -
"A bit ‘woke’? Possibly. But true corporate sustainability derives from sound governance"
1 year ago
Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse underlines the importance of sound governance -
Italian NPLs under spotlight as debt collector spreads blow wider
1 year ago
Intrum, the Swedish debt collection firm, is suffering a sharp push wider in credit spreads after writing down part of a portfolio focused on the Italian market -
Manager targets €300 million for structured credit fund with CLO/CSO mix
1 year ago
The fund will invest primarily in European CLO equity -
Deutsche hires credit strategy head from rival bank
1 year ago
Deutsche Bank has hired a new head to oversee European and US credit strategy -
"Short memories forget how rampant anti-EU sentiment was before Mario Draghi became Italy’s prime minister"
1 year ago
Unrest in Italy threatens to escalate into a bigger crisis than Greece in 2012 -
Standard Chartered prints landmark SRT in Asia
1 year ago
Standard Chartered has issued a ground-breaking SRT by partnering with investors PGGM and Alecta. The transaction "enables Standard Chartered to be the first bank to benefit from capital relief in Hong Kong" -
Winton hires quant credit specialist as PM
2 years ago
Winton, a London-headquartered asset management firm that specialises in quantitative strategies, has hired an experienced trader to focus on credit alpha capture -
Chorus reaches crescendo with big SRT hire
2 years ago
Chorus Capital says it has hired an experienced significant risk transfer official to its investment team and executive committee in London -
"The loan market is the septic tank for sub-single B LBO financing"
2 years ago
Portfolios of single name IG CDS are less complex and more liquid than CLOs -
Credit rally extends as investors welcome hawkish but clearer Fed message
2 years ago
Credit markets have carried their rally over to another day, fuelled in part by what investors have interpreted as a hawkish but clear message from the US Federal Reserve on policy tightening -
RBC names head of high yield trading and e-strategy for leveraged finance
2 years ago
RBC Capital Markets has promoted a high yield trader and head of leveraged finance digital strategy to the position -
Credit fund rout extends as storm winds buffet from all sides
2 years ago
Another choppy week for financial markets has extended the run of fund outflows, with investors fleeing from all parts of credit and even equity suffering a drop, with government bonds gaining traction -
European panic over Ukraine pushes market to new wides
2 years ago
European underperformance of US credit has resumed at the start of the week, with the market waking up on Monday morning to another sharp sell off. But the lengthening downturn has some believing spreads have overshot, while others insist worse is to follow -
Credit and equity fund flows diverge ahead of Fed emergency meeting
2 years ago
Outflows from credit have extended into another week, even as stocks returned to inflows, as speculation mounted the US Federal Reserve could opt for a 50bp hike in March or even an earlier than anticipated hike at an emergency meeting next week -
ESG template fires up hopes of CSO issuance
2 years ago
2021 may not have been a year of big volume in the synthetic bespoke market, but primary business is back, and decisive inroads into environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused issuance bode well for 2022 -
Barclays fills gap by hiring global macro credit trading head in New York
2 years ago
Banks are moving quickly to make sure they are staffed up in credit trading with Barclays bringing in an experienced trader in New York -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Fairwater eyes tranches and options as prospects ‘multiply’
3 years ago
Fairwater Capital is looking to capitalise on rising credit volatility by crafting a strategy that makes full use of the growing number of products in the credit derivatives industry -
Brevan Howard hires senior credit PM
3 years ago
Brevan Howard has hired an experienced credit portfolio manager in New York
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