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LP round up: 27 managers find the top corner with investor wins
1 year ago
Credit fund managers like to take it one fund at a time and give it 110% for their 90-minute investor fund pitches - and it's working as $3.8 billion was allocated during November and early December. The gaffer would be proud. -
China property rescue plan keeps credit on front foot
1 year ago
China’s policy shift on covid rules and measures to prop up its ailing property market have brought a buoyant start to the week, despite financial markets having already rallied sharply last week -
So long! US high yield index jumps tighter with roll from old to new series
1 year ago
Credit spreads have retraced tighter on Tuesday, after two days of heavy selling pressure, as investors in US high yield index CDX HY get set for its roll into a new series -
Strong rally takes indices back below key levels
1 year ago
A big rally has greeted the start of the new week, in large part fuelled by easing recession concerns following Friday's encouraging US jobs number - but seeminly ignoring signs of further deterioration in the outlook for peripheral Europe -
A&M makes securitisation breakthrough with SRT for Polish bank
1 year ago
Alvarez & Marsal says it has completed its first securitisation as sole arranger after completing an SRT referencing a pool of housing community loans -
Skew opens up as indices pivot following broad sell off
1 year ago
The opening of the US session on Thursday has brought a firmer tone, after European and Asian markets extended their weak run. But the reversal in index direction has left single name credits still sitting at much wider spreads -
Market jitters mount as US delivers May CPI
1 year ago
Credit spreads have moved sharply wider for the fourth day straight as investors digested the European Central Bank’s hawkish turn and watched with trepidation for the US to reveal its May consumer price index numbers -
Talen bond squeeze brings low auction pay-out for protection holders
1 year ago
A credit event auction to settle Talen Energy Supply CDS has delivered a much higher result than had been predicted from bond prices, fuelled by a bidding squeeze on deliverable paper -
Telco bucks market sell of with network merger boost
1 year ago
It is an off day for most borrowers in the European credit market, but one telco has bucked the trend with a sharp move tighter after unveiling network integration plans -
Bond / CDS basis in play as heavy market rout extends
1 year ago
The rout of financial markets has resumed at pace on Thursday, with sizeable moves that add to relative value disparities between cash and synthetic credit -
US retailers hit hard as inflation and dollar spark big sell-off
1 year ago
Inflation worries and a strengthening US dollar have once again upended the credit market’s fragile confidence, taking spreads on a violent lurch wider with the US underperforming Europe -
Stalling growth engines leave market in deeper turmoil
1 year ago
Financial markets are starting the week in another heavy slump, with credit hitting new wides as various asset classes take a beating from economic growth fears and the prospect of a recession in Europe -
Investors look to US response after Putin lights touch paper on Ukraine intervention
2 years ago
Credit investors are left facing a what-happens-next moment after Vladimir Putin recognised the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as independent states, paving the way for Russian forces to intervene. In response the US has moved swiftly to impose new sanctions targeting the two regions -
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 -
Italian banks widen sharply as risk-on drive falters
3 years ago
Italian banks are among Wednesday's underperformers as single name credits play catch up with a shift wider in indices, amid signs the recent bull run is petering out -
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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PennantPark keeps up fundraising pace with new credit opps strategy
3 years ago
PennantPark Investment Advisers has held a final close for its US middle market opportunistic credit strategy, PennantPark Credit Opportunities Fund III -
Single name shorters get improved entry point after conviction test
3 years ago
Returning market optimism has taken credit spreads back to ultra-tight levels. But for bears, this posits a better entry level for short trades, and the recent blow-out may have given strong pointers where to target them -
High yield shorts and basis trades abound as borrowers race to issue
3 years ago
Discrepancies between high yield bonds and CDS could be a rich mine of activity in the coming months, say investors, with volatility set to rise while defaults and late cycle signals avail trading opportunities -
Oaktree mixes defensive with opportunistic in new fund for recent hire
3 years ago
Oaktree Capital Management has launched a standalone absolute return fixed income fund for recent hire Brad Boyd, according to market sources -
Minnesota pension's 2020 credit allocations hit $1 billion
3 years ago
Minnesota State Board of Investments has earmarked $400 million across to two credit managers in a private market update. The commitments mark $1 billion allocated to credit in 2020 by the pension -
US pension forms $100 million talf sub-committee as 'window of opportunities closing quickly'
3 years ago
Fresno County Employees Retirement System has formed an ad hoc committee authorised to commit up to $100 million to a term asset-backed securities loan facility strategy, according to an audio recording from its 5 May board meeting -
SEC temporarily relaxes regulations for BDCs
4 years ago
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has provided business development companies with temporary relief in light of covid-19 - including the ability of BDCs, who are unable to satisfy asset coverage ratios, to use an alternative form of calculating leverage -
Good Thursday for credit, as Europe gains gusto from US resurrection
4 years ago
The Easter revival has come early for credit, with three straight days of global improvement and iTraxx Crossover today rallying again into the long weekend at its tightest print for a month -
Scor introduces swing pricing on European loan fund
4 years ago
Scor Investment Partners has introduced partial ‘swing pricing’ on all classes of its Scor European Loans Fund, effective Friday “to preserve its clients' long-term interest in challenging market conditions”
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