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EU inflation prints frame challenge ahead as horror show first half ends
2 years ago
Financial markets are heading into the weekend with a rare stationary session, but the mood is more one of shellshock than considered positioning, after one of the worst first halves to a year on record -
Consumer confidence shock sends spreads back to wides
2 years ago
Weak US consumer confidence numbers on Tuesday sent shockwaves through markets that are continuing to reverberate in Wednesday's trading session -
Property firm's troubles mount while rest of market rallies
2 years ago
Financial markets have opened the week brightly on a mix of improved sentiment and technical repositioning. But one European high yield company is heading further into stress, against the flow -
Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
2 years ago
There was more upheaval for credit funds in April, reversing the mini-recovery in March as 40% of funds made positive returns, a decrease on the 47% in March -
Credit hedge funds (June 2022)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns
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Retailers, travel cos and Italian banks lead charge as market rally accelerates
2 years ago
Retail companies have been resurgent on Thursday as the credit market’s relief rally gathered pace, with Europe seeking to catch up with the US following its strong surge -
Property giant takes a tumble as European fortunes diverge
2 years ago
Adler Group, the German real estate giant, is once again coming under intense pressure in the credit market amid reports the country’s financial watchdog has begun a criminal investigation into its dealings -
US retailers hit hard as inflation and dollar spark big sell-off
2 years 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 -
CLO managers in the mix for first US credit event auction since 2020
2 years ago
CDS contracts referencing Talen Energy Supply will be settled by credit event auction next month. And Talen's recovery levels will have relevance for a number of CLO managers that have held onto the company's debt - in some cases having bought more very recently -
Fund performance: Credit bounces back from February blues
2 years ago
March performance figures were a slight improvement from the market turn in February; 47% of funds made positive returns, an increase on 17% the previous month -
Credit hedge funds (May 2022)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
2 years ago
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns -
Credit Rendezvous: Pass masters
2 years ago
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... -
SEC's CDS proposals could impede market rather than help it: Barclays
2 years ago
New rules proposed by the US Securities & Exchange Commissions to tighten oversight of the CDS market could mean big changes for the market and have the effect of sapping activity, warn Barclays credit strategists in a note published on Thursday -
Fund performance: Credit slumps widely as CLOs lag furthest behind
2 years ago
February’s market turn brought a variety of fund categories into the Creditflux top ten as six different categories were represented -- US high yield standing tallest among them -
Credit hedge funds (April 2022)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Fund performance: Groundhog Day as 2021 leaders start strong
2 years ago
CLO funds once again claim the most top performing spots as seven out of 10 funds belong to the category -
Credit hedge funds (March 2022)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ukraine crisis takes EU and Russian markets into new territory
2 years ago
Credit spreads went back to the wides again on Monday, after the European Union intensified its pressure on the Russian economy and reached an unprecedented agreement to supply Ukraine with weapons -
French co rattles investors on micro level as Russia overclouds macro
2 years ago
After a cautious opening, investors in the European credit market have resumed hedging as western leaders continue to talk up the prospect of Russia invading Ukraine and the Kremlin has dismissed hopes of a Biden-Putin summit as premature -
Credit hedge funds (February 2022)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Fund performance: Wasserstein's early 2021 performance drives it to the top
2 years ago
The final top 10 of 2021 featured a variety of funds as five different strategies were ranked among the best. US high yield was the most highly represented with two BlackRock funds and an Angel Oak in the top 10 -
Heavy market rout takes credit back to November 2020 levels
2 years ago
High volatility is gripping financial markets at the end of a week that has been decisively bearish for credit spreads, as concerns about the end of central bank stimulus and warnings of a Russian invasion of Ukraine next month layer on pain for investors -
Credit Rendezvous: the upside of inflation
2 years ago
It is clear, inflation is not transitory and central banks are acting with several interest rate hikes likely in store for the US this year. That makes loans and CLO debt tranches attractive, but there could be opportunities beyond these floating rate assets -
See what's next: Netflix gives whole market a chill
2 years ago
Financial markets look set to end the week once again on a bearish trajectory, with fears over consumer confidence and company earnings helping take credit spreads back to their widest levels since the start of December
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