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  • Credit investors find bright spots in gloomy outlook: Credit Rendezvous Q4 2022
    Clouds are looming over financial markets as the fourth quarter begins — so investors are moving away from diversified approaches in favour of tailored investments and relative value plays

    1 year ago
  • Real estate is about to get real bad: Welshcake
    The extent of disconnect between real estate and what other markets have been experiencing is enough to convince me a whole other layer of economic mayhem is on the way. But investors in credit, for all their current pain, could still end up shining if they are prepared

    1 year ago
  • Credit Rendezvous: Pass masters
    Most often, a credit market downturn has its roots mired in one big, blatant obstacle that credit managers have to focus their attention to overcome. But right now, it’s not the dominant risk factor that has to be defeated, it’s the sheer number of them...

    1 year ago
  • Relative value traders seize on fleeting mismatches
    The volatility that hit credit markets from mid-November has produced rare opportunities for relative value traders after a dearth for 12 months

    2 years ago
  • Zais and BNP Paribas strike ESG breakthrough with climate change CSO
    The growing theme of environmental, social and governance standards helping to revitalise the market for collateralised synthetic obligations appears to have taken a big step forward, with Zais Group and BNP Paribas partnering on a first-of-its-kind deal that could lay a template for future transactions

    2 years ago
  • Broadening SRT market defies spread compression
    Credit spreads are close to all time tights — high yield, courtesy of CDX HY, recently hit its tightest level since January 2007 — but the significant risk transfer (SRT) market is one of the few pockets of credit where pricing is wide of pre-covid levels

    2 years ago
  • Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
    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.  

    2 years ago
  • CSOs and index tranches reach sticking point as correlation gets rich
    Credit correlation trading looks to have reached a point of inflexion, as the previous bull run at the lower end of index capital stacks has given way to caution over how much further spread compression can go. At the same time, bespoke tranche business is gaining interest but equity remains stickier to sell at the market's ultra-low spread and volatility levels

    2 years ago
  • Credit Rendezvous: ready and waiting
    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 

    2 years ago
  • "Watch the IG credit curve — we may see steepening of IG 5s10s and flattening of 10s30s"
    Stimulus measures are supporting short tenors, and pension demand for 30-year paper is strong, so 10-year IG credit may have few buyers

    2 years ago
  • Credit Rendezvous: heading for homes
    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. 

    3 years ago
  • Zombies demand brain work from tranche traders
    Outperformance of junior tranches and underperformance of senior was the big theme in CDS index tranches going into December. But the picture began to change as Creditflux went to press

    3 years ago
  • Fund perfomance: Slowdown for some as pandemic takes hold

    A round-up of fund performance

    3 years ago
  • Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
    A round-up of fund performance

    4 years ago
  • Fund performance: Presents under the tree as CLO funds perform

    A round-up of fund performance

    4 years ago
  • Falling correlation reignites passion for index tranche trades
    Dispersion in the global corporate credit market is rekindling interest in correlation trading, with dealer sources reporting that a late surge lifted 2019 index tranche volumes to $250 billion.

    4 years ago
  • Fund performance: Long-short funds rule in October as CLO funds struggle
    A round-up of fund performance

    4 years ago
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    4 years ago
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    A round-up of fund performance

    4 years ago
  • Five-year bespokes movement leads to managed CSO talks
    Longer dated synthetic bespoke tranche business could soon receive new impetus, with dealers and investors ramping up talks about re-establishing managed portfolios as a common feature of the CSO market.

    4 years ago
  • Fund performance
    A round-up of fund performance

    4 years ago
  • CLO investors should be looking at CSOs

    At Creditflux’s Credit Dimensions event in New York, structured credit investors were told how synthetic CDOs fit neatly alongside CLOs, and there is no need to pick one over the other

    4 years ago
  • Investments in CSOs can be more fruitful than in CLOs

    Some CSO tranches may off er better returns and provide exposure to higher-rated credit than similar tranches of CLOs. Also, the CSO term curve is steeper and more stable than that of CLOs

    4 years ago
  • Index tranche levels spike as investors advance into equity
    Trading of credit index tranches is picking up, with some $61 billion worth changing hands in the space during the first quarter, according to data from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

    4 years ago
  • Bespoke gains pull CLO buyers as market tipped to hit $100bn
    Synthetic bespoke issuance could catch up with the more visible CLO market this year, say structured credit specialists

    4 years ago

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