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Credit market hits new wides as government outbreak measures intensify
4 years ago
Credit market are making another push wider at the start of the week, after governments tightened restrictions on movement to deal with the escalating coronavirus outbreak -
Lebanon triggers failure-to-pay credit event with CDS priced at 89 points up front
4 years ago
Lebanon has triggered a failure-to-pay credit event on CDS referencing its sovereign bonds, the Determinations Committee for Europe, Middle East and Africa has ruled -
Credit traders' kickstand: rolling with the pain, as relative value trades come unstuck
4 years ago
What a difference a month - and a pandemic - make. This time in February, no-one could have imagined a global financial crisis would be unfolding, that credit performance would be a battle between a virus and some of the biggest government and central bank interventions on record, that today's iTraxx Europe and CDX index rolls would traverse unprecedented ranges, that option expiry strikes would be blown beyond recognition, or that cash and CDS differentials would be whipsawing with such violence -
Lebanon credit event trigger posed to Determinations Committee
4 years ago
The Determinations Committee for Europe, Middle East and Africa has accepted a request to rule on whether Lebanon has triggered a failure-to-pay credit event, after the country withheld payments due on bonds earlier this month -
Asset manager takes new approach with special sits fund as co-head leaves
4 years ago
A large global asset manager is looking to allocate to junior debt in performing comapnies after parting ways with the co-head of its special situations business -
Alcentra prepares listed credit fund
4 years ago
BNY Mellon Investment Advisor has teamed up with affiliate Alcentra to launch a listed fund that can invest across a range of credit strategies -
Solus shutters flagship distressed fund, WSJ reports
4 years ago
Solus Alternative Asset Management has shuttered its flagship distressed debt fund, Sola, as the firm faces big redemption requests and coronavirus-related liquidity issues -
Credit traders’ kickstand: roll nightmares haunt CDS market as indices whiplash
It’s Friday 13th, but CDS traders will be hoping the worst of the horror shows are behind them as they try to regather their shredded nerves in time for next week’s biannual index rolls -
McClatchy whacks out killer headline as CDS pays 98 cents
4 years ago
A month ago, when US newspaper company McClatchy triggered a bankruptcy credit event, sellers of CDS protection may have consoled themselves they were only looking at paying out around 27 cents on the contracts. But yesterday’s credit event auction set the final price at just two, meaning a whopping 98 cent windfall for protection buyers -
Credit breakdown as one-day volatility outstrips financial crisis
4 years ago
Credit default swap markets have surpassed the record one-day volatility of the global financial crisis, with indices surging to new wide prints as the spiralling impact of the coronavirus outbreak brings government lockdowns on travel while wreaking havoc on oil prices and supply chains -
BlueBay adds distressed specialist to EM credit team
4 years ago
The hire follows BlueBay appointing Mihai Florian in January to develop the firm’s capabilities in illiquid emerging market corporate credit -
Dispersion tests hedge fund managers
Credit hedge funds with the ability to go long and short the market were the top performers last year. But dispersion made it possible for fund managers to eke out value across many sectors4 years ago -
Tranche traders aim to navigate default risk while staying clear of coronavirus contagion
4 years ago
The CDS market is navigating between two sources of risk for equity and mezzanine high yield index tranches. The default of US media company McClatchy has focused idiosyncratic concerns, while the spread of the coronavirus has stoked fears of a systemic sell-off. -
Credit funds at a glance
4 years ago
A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
Ucits at a glance: Ucits start year on high note
4 years ago
A round-up of ucits fund performance -
Bayside targets $1.25 billion for special situations fund
4 years ago
HIG Bayside is targeting $1.25 billion for its latest special situations fund, HIG Bayside Loan Opportunity Fund VI, according to US regulatory filings filed on Monday -
McClatchy bonds point to 50 cent CDS pay-out as auction deliverables finalised
4 years ago
McClatchy CDS in on course to pay out around 50 cents, based on cheapest bonds to deliver, after the Americas Determinations finalised five deliverable obligations for the media company’s credit event auction next week -
Credit reels back to January 2019 levels as coronavirus impact spreads
4 years ago
A more positive opening for European credit today proved short-lived, as coronavirus developments caused the market to reverse its modest improvement early on to careen back to some of the widest levels in over a year -
Rhode Island to step up private and 'opportunistic' credit investments
4 years ago
Rhode Island State Investment Commission, which manages the Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island, plans to increase its allocation to private credit and what it terms opportunisitic credit, according to investment consultant Cliffwater -
Pretium buys Latigo to boost distressed capabilities
4 years ago
Pretium Partners has bought the investment management business of New York-based Latigo Partners, in a bid to expand the firm’s distressed debt and event-driven credit capabilities. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed -
Ohio pension makes commitment to private credit
4 years ago
School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is set to introduce a 5% private credit allocation to its portfolio -
Sound Point launches distressed debt fund with $70 million
4 years ago
Sound Point Capital has launched a distressed debt fund focused on loans trading below 90 cents -
McClatchy initial list points to 48 cent CDS pay-out
4 years ago
McClatchy CDS looks set to pay out around 47.5 cents to protection holders, if bonds on an initial list of deliverable obligations for the media company’s credit event auction make it to the final list -
US pension looks to put $60 million in private debt as older funds wind down
4 years ago
Boston Retirement System considers committing an additional $60 million to its private debt programme in 2020, following a recommendation by its investment consultant NEPC,
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