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"There are concerns about volatile sectors in high yield, but IG may be vulnerable to macro changes"
2 years ago
High yield has heavier exposure to energy and travel credits, but IG has more rate duration -
Coronavirus delta dilemma puts reflation trades into reverse
2 years ago
Concern over the covid-19 delta variant dented investor optimism in July and looks set to hold back credit spread improvement in August, as focus turns to rising cases in the US and Germany -
It's all relative: IG index drifts wide of 50bp as European CLO triple Bs outperform
2 years ago
US investment grade credit has been an underperformer in the last few weeks with CDX IG trading north of 50 basis points again. But European CLO triple Bs are looking strong while there is a stronger bid for two- to three-year paper in the US -
Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
2 years ago
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives. -
2021 CBO refi volume reaches record as CSAM cuts costs on 2019 deal
2 years ago
Credit Suisse Asset Management paired with Citi on Thursday to refinance the mezzanine debt tranches of its 2019 bond-heavy CLO named One Eleven Funding III -
Anchorage refis mezz tranches of twin CBOs
2 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group has refinanced the mezzanine debt tranches of two of its CBOs -
It's all relative: CDX HY touches record tights but junior US CLO tranches leak wider
2 years ago
Credit spreads are marching tighter, but someone forgot to tell the CLO market. European and US CDS spreads have moved in step with each other for the most part with investment grade and high yield tightening 4-6% in the last week, whereas CLOs have been losing ground -
Anchorage prints 2021's third bond-flex CLO
2 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group has priced its latest bond-heavy CLO offering named Anchorage Credit Funding 13, teaming up with GreensLedge to print the $458.8 million deal -
Credit Rendezvous: ready and waiting
2 years ago
In Creditflux's quarterly review of credit, portfolio managers tell us that Inflation is likely to nudge higher but they are optimistic because dispersion will pick up and windows of volatility will emerge, rather than elongated phases of stress -
Anchorage adds double B tranche to 2019 bond-flex CLO
3 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group has added a double B liability tranche to a 2019 bond-heavy CLO following a refinancing -
"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 -
World welcomes debut CLO manager as Centerbridge joins bond-flex issuers
3 years ago
The world welcomed a new CLO manager on Thursday as New York-based private equity firm Centerbridge Partners entered the fray with a bond-heavy transaction named Centerbridge Credit Funding 1 -
Technicals support IG while investors hunt for rising stars
3 years ago
Investment grade credit spreads have been stubbornly tight for the past six-months, but investors see positive technical factors that make lower-rated bonds appealing -
It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
3 years ago
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter -
Angelo Gordon joins ranks of bond-flex CLO issuers
3 years ago
Angelo Gordon teamed up with Credit Suisse on Thursday to issue its first ever bond-heavy CLO -
It's all relative: CLO spreads explore record tights as credit indices hit impasse
3 years ago
CLO spreads are grinding to ever tighter levels, despite a flattish week for credit in which corporate credit indices have ended up more or less unchanged -
It's all relative: CLOs are lagging no more, as Carlyle deal drags market tighter
3 years ago
“CLOs are lagging” has been a much repeated refrain over the last nine months. But Carlyle Group has this week produced a US CLO that has dragged spreads to their tightest point in three years so that, rather than comparing CLOs to pre-covid levels, they should be assessed against early 2018 -
It's all relative: senior CLO tranches tighten 18% in Europe as CDS indices sit out rally
The corporate credit rally in January is notable because some assets tightened to levels not seen in over a decade (loans), others rallied albeit with a lag (CLOs) and the most liquid stream of credit (CDS indices) defied moves in other asset classes to widen
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Anchorage upsizes 2016 bond-flex CLO by $267 million with reset
3 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group has reset its 2016 vintage bond-flex CLO, Anchorage Credit Funding 4, upsizing the deal by $266.7 million in the process -
US looks for stronger open after sell off
3 years ago
US credit is opening slightly stronger on Thursday, after its sharp Wednesday rout, prompted by Federal Reserve messaging, carried over forcefully into Asian and European markets -
Credit Rendezvous: heading for homes
3 years ago
Fund managers in structured credit, real assets and distressed are bullish on the prospects for residential housing in 2021. Elsewhere, niche royalty-based strategies are in favour and although a CLO repricing wave is expected, it may not be easy to execute resets. For more, read our 13-page quarterly report on credit. -
Blackstone refinances mezz tranches of 2018 bond-heavy CLO
3 years ago
Blackstone Credit has teamed up with GreensLedge to refinance the mezzanine debt notes of a 2018-vintage inaugural bond-heavy CLO named Cirrus Funding 2018-1 -
CLO issuers flex their bond muscles
3 years ago
Some panellists at Creditflux’s US CLO Investor Summit pointed to structural difficulties, but the consensus was that flexibility — particularly the ability to buy bonds — could improve performance -
Convexity pushes high yield bond basis to the forefront
3 years ago
Compression had become the watchword of the market as Creditflux went to press, providing justification for high yield versus investment grade macro plays, wide-end long positioning and selective tight-end shorts. But the more important driver, say some relative value investors, was convexity -
It's all relative: Euro CLO mezz rallies to follow month-long IG/HY compression
3 years ago
European credit suffered this week with Brexit talks between the UK and the EU dragging on and both sides conceding that a trade deal is unlikely to be reached by Sunday’s deadline. But European CLO tranches have held up reasonably well with mezzanine spreads tightening by almost 13% in December
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