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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. -
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 -
Signs of new dawn as tranche volumes smash past $250bn
3 years ago
Last year, people formed fresh habits as they adapted to the coronavirus pandemic. Similarly, in credit, a breakthrough year for the CDS tranche market is leading participants to believe that elevated tranche volumes are here to stay -
Sovereign wealth funds empower direct lenders
3 years ago
Sovereign wealth funds are turning toward the booming private credit market, with three massive partnerships formed this year -
Dealers power up as tranche trading hits new heights
3 years ago
A big year for index tranche trading has taken volume within grasping distance of full-year 2019, a post-financial crisis record, with a deepening pool of dealers adding support -
CSOs start printing again with new money ready to invest
3 years ago
The synthetic bespoke market is putting behind it the turmoil of recent months, with a pipeline of new CSO transactions starting to price and a swelling supply of new money lining up to invest. -
Credit Rendezvous: record fiscal stimulus provides pick-me-up
3 years ago
Credit markets had a mini bounce-back in the second quarter as central banks poured cash into the economy. But there is great uncertainty about the effects of a second wave of coronavirus. As part of our quarterly report on credit - the Credit Rendezvous - Creditflux spoke to experts across 12 segments of the credit market -
Short-dated CSOs touted as jump-to-default risk hits curves
4 years ago
The coronavirus outbreak has all but vanquished hopes of any regular CSO business getting done, but sources say bespoke portfolios of short-dated CDS could soon be in the offing as investors look to express a view on when the crisis will end. -
‘Hoard credit’ says PM as markets swing
4 years ago
As Creditflux went to press, the covid-19 death toll in Italy surged by 700 after two days of slowing, and the US congress agreed a $2 trillion stimulus package. -
CDS show the way as prices move and volumes surge
4 years ago
CDS volumes provide an eye-opening view of how the asset class has grown in prominence during the coronavirus pandemic, with index trading near doubling year-to-date on 2019, even as secondary bond markets hit lockdown. -
CSO arrangers take notes from success of CLOs
4 years ago
CSO arrangers are looking to follow the CLO template in more ways than one, with sources indicating that some dealers are looking to structure their deals in note format (as opposed to swaps). -
CBAM plans expansion with new $60 million credit facility
4 years ago
CBAM has closed a $60 million credit facility to refinance a working capital facility to its parent company Eldridge Industries -
CSO arrangers look to build on $65bn of issuance in 2019
4 years ago
The synthetic bespoke tranche market this year has fallen short of expectations in terms of overall issuance volume, but ends with transformative inroads being made. -
Prepayments pose reinvestment dilemma for CLO managers
4 years ago
CLO managers globally could be left sitting on piles of cash amid an uptick in loan prepayments. Standard & Poor’s reported that institutional US loan prepayments had hit $26 billion in July, and more recently some widely-held CLO names are set to return principal to lenders, with financial data provider Refinitiv US Holdings and Italian telecom operator Wind Tre taking this route. -
Credit traders' kickstand: Europe ascendant as high yield pipeline returns
4 years ago
The high yield bond primary market grinds back into gear this week just as European credit reaches an extreme point of outperformance over the US, and comes on the back of Europe’s busiest week of investment grade issuance in 18 months -
Europe and US diverge on covenant lite structures
4 years ago
Direct lending is syphoning away traditional loan supply -
WhiteRock's Dolfino: "PE deal flow is down, deal sizes are up and spreads are compressing" [video]
4 years ago
WhiteRock Capital Partner's Gustavo Dolfino talks to Creditflux's Michelle D'souza after his M&A presentation at the Creditflux Debtwire US Mid Market Forum -
Arrival of five-year bespokes draws in CLO investors
5 years ago
Synthetic bespoke tranches are undergoing a major shift, with dealers projecting five-year business to supersede previously dominant shorter tenors by the end of 2019. -
Index tranche levels spike as investors advance into equity
5 years ago
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 -
Bespoke gains pull CLO buyers as market tipped to hit $100bn
5 years ago
Synthetic bespoke issuance could catch up with the more visible CLO market this year, say structured credit specialists -
Regulation stifles SRTs, but banks and investors revel in quarter-four outperformance
5 years ago
Over the course of 2018 there was roughly €6.5 billion of issuance in the market for significant risk transfer (SRT) deals, sources say, with the last three months understood to be the busiest quarter on record -
JP Morgan keeps up synthetic CDO momentum
6 years ago
Sources say that JP Morgan priced a $500 million synthetic CDO last month, underlining its position as one of the key deal arrangers in this market
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