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"If anything is to be salvaged from the rest of 2022, the economy needs a hero — and quickly"
1 year ago
Something has gotta give as a recession looms in the US. Might it be energy? -
That’s another fine mezz I’d like to get into
2 years ago
Structural protection and flatter curves make short-dated mezz tranches attractive. Speakers at Credit Dimensions discuss which positions they’d take in CSOs, options and tranches this year -
"Pivot points in curves may not stay where they have been historically"
2 years ago
CTAs and CSOs are changing the way credit curves move -
"Credit investors should interpret 100,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border as worth pricing in"
2 years ago
Welshcake tells credit portfolio managers to under-promise and over-deliver in 2022 -
"No-one talks about the part oil price surges played in the 2008/9 global financial crisis"
2 years ago
Investors eyeing inflation shocks and supply chain disruption should instead be paying attention to the brewing energy crisis -
“For Creditflux this will be an extra special occasion - the publication is marking its 20th year in business”
2 years ago
A colourful train journey featuring Alice in Wonderland, Yoda and Top Trumps puts Welshcake in mind of the CLO Symposium -
"In the afternoon I awoke from a pile of willow leaves to discover we had created a Welsh ether-based token"
2 years ago
A localised crypto-currency boom and bust cycle teaches Welshcake (again) that everything becomes correlated in a downturn -
Past returns: Having a whale of a time in tranches
2 years ago
In Creditflux 10 years ago we reported on JP Morgan’s “little known prop book” making waves in index tranches -
"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 guys shouldn't feel quite as self-important as us Welsh... But you are in a pretty amazing spot
3 years ago
CLO portfolio managers should be emboldened by recent events to push for ESG strategies -
I'm a nosy neighbour... get CSO deals public and embrace the age of information
3 years ago
A year of staying under the radar has not helped the CSO market -
Past returns: Bravo! Citi takes applause with CSO portfolios
3 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux we reported that Citi was planning a follow up to its Bravo portfolio — a CSO reference entity in which the bank made two-way markets -
They said it: "Clearing houses have proposed they will clear index tranches next year"
3 years ago
More liquidity for the index tranche market -
The surge in index tranche trading has resulted in a deep, liquid and nuanced set of market dynamics
3 years ago
Welshcake emerges from his bunker to find CLOs still standing and the CSO market getting back to business -
Where are the gloating I-told-you-so columnists who claimed CLOs would bring global destruction?
3 years ago
We have seen a measured response to the coronavirus crisis: fund managers aren’t collapsing and investors are not shunning CLOs -
2020 will be about relative value, watching for idiosyncratic risk and a good deal of running away
4 years ago
Investors must embrace change — it’s time for structured credit investors to look beyond vanilla CLOs -
Don’t get too comfortable. The truth is there are hundreds of things that could be catalysts for a sell-off
4 years ago
Just because there’s no obvious sign of a sell-off, doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen. Often, market moves defy logic -
For a while, it seemed like every private equity fund was launching a credit fund
Trent Webster, Senior investment officer for strategic investments, State Board of Administration of Florida, takes our credit quiz4 years ago -
It may seem a bit rich for Welshcake to tell staid CLO investors they need to be more sensible
4 years ago
Bespokes are the next big thing — and you’d be wise to get involved -
If you can stomach volatility, CLO equity is very attractive
Brandon Cahill of BlueMountain Capital Management takes our credit quiz4 years ago -
They said it: "I saw a CLO OM which ran 484 pages"
4 years ago
At Creditflux’s Credit Dimensions event, JP Morgan’s Zaheen Mir argues that CSOs are simpler to understand than CLOs -
You can’t time everything 100% correctly, but being too early can be a mistake
5 years ago
ArrowMark's Kaelyn Abrell takes our credit quiz -
Past returns: Citi kickstarts CSO market
5 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported on the revival of the synthetic CDO market, with Citi leading the push -
Points up front: Creditflux makes significant SRT call
5 years ago
They were once referred to as regulatory capital relief trades (or reg-cap trades), but now no one can agree on what to call them -
Past returns: secret CLO market
5 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported on the emergence of an inter-dealer market for CLOs
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