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Points up front: missing doc
7 years ago
Wanted: loan document. Last seen some time in February 2015 -
Points up front: Desai does a Donald
7 years ago
Donald Trump seems to be insinuating his way into the credit market even before he is confirmed as the Republican presidential candidate -
Points up front: politicians do their homework
7 years ago
How the big screen is influencing the European CLO market -
They said it
7 years ago
“My goodness. If this is what it’s like five years in, we in the US have got the decks stacked against us” -
Points up front: winning ways
7 years ago
Mike Damaso’s brief sabbatical in the film business may have whetted his appetite for winning awards -
Points up front: keeping it simple
7 years ago
“We could soon end up with CLOs featuring 20 different tranches” -
Points up front: refreshing honesty
8 years ago
Hats off to Eli Combs, founder of now defunct credit fund manager MeehanCombs, for offering an unusually honest explanation for the firm’s demise -
Points up front: man of many talents
8 years ago
Some credit market professionals have unusual hobbies. But few have as diverse a range of talents as one portfolio manager in Los Angeles -
Points up front: beware Thursdays
8 years ago
Investors in UK peer-to-peer lending platform Funding Circle are learning the harsh realities of credit risk -
Points up front: they said it
8 years ago
“CLOs have been wacked. This [2% in 2015] is pretty good performance.” -
Points up front: expecting a call
8 years ago
Muzinich marketing director Filomena Cocco prompted laughter at last month's Creditflux Direct Lending Workshop -
Points up front: don’t put on this big short
8 years ago
Citi says it has fielded a lot of calls from hedge funds on shorting auto loan securitisations lately -
Points up front: takeovers of nominal convenience
8 years ago
Let's hope that Apollo Global's bid to buy the unrelated Apollo Education last month sets a precedent for takeovers of nominal convenience -
Points up front: they said it
8 years ago
“The losses which will emerge from peer-to-peer lending over the next five to 10 years will make the worst bankers look like lending geniuses” -
Points up front: free-styling
8 years ago
Few people rise to the top in the world of credit having previously triumphed in a different field. Stephan Caron is an exception -
Points up front: it’s the way he tells ‘em
8 years ago
A gathering last month of most of the biggest players in the fast-growing synthetic tranche market prompted more than its usual share of banter and trader humour -
They said it
8 years ago
“Illiquid assets and the possibility of capital flight: there are few surer recipes for investment disaster.” -
Points up front: blasphemer
8 years ago
During the financial crisis “innovation” became a dirty word after being used to describe the creative process of fooling investors into taking extra risk -
Points up front: pay-back time
8 years ago
Ecuador's president Rafael Correa was keen to take the plaudits last month after the country made a $650 million principal payment -
Points up front: they said it
8 years ago
Big Short star Steve Carell attempts to explain synthetic CDOs -
Points up front: how to name your credit hedge fund
8 years ago
Starting a credit hedge fund? Turn to Google -
Points up front: works of art
8 years ago
Guggenheim Investments always takes a more imaginative approach to naming its CLOs than most other managers -
Points up front: loaded question
8 years ago
CLO market champion Andy Barr raises the issue of risk retention with Fed chair Janet Yellen -
Points up front: they said it
8 years ago
“Liquid credit is an oxymoron” -
Points up front: memories of the pier
8 years ago
A big investor at last month's Creditflux CLO Investor Summit recalled that the last time he attended a CLO conference at Pier Sixty
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