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Credit spotlight - Lean, mean driving machines
12 years ago
After paring down fleets and cutting costs in 2008, car rental companies have recently posted strong earnings and most could now make profits even in a recession -
Tracking the CLO dividend deluge
13 years ago
Once given up for dead, many CLOs are paying equity investors huge returns. We use CLO-i to find those with the highest distributions -
Growth in real money accounts drives CDS market flows
13 years ago
The credit default swap market has been transformed beyond recognition in recent years. We present the first ever league table of CDS counterparties by outstanding volumes. -
Spotlight on CLO returns
13 years ago
Data submitted for the Creditflux CLO manager awards provides a valuable snapshot of the whole market -
Symphony’s unfinished business
13 years ago
West Coast alternatives manager Symphony Asset Management was early in creating a full blown credit business. Now it’s ready to build on its track record -
Reit repairs begin to pay off
13 years ago
After a disastrous 2009 and a period of refinancing, reits are starting to deliver strong returns again, with those active in high quality office space leading the way -
In defence of the Gaussian copula
13 years ago
It’s been called the model that killed Wall Street, but Jean-David Fermanian argues that the structured credit market’s Gaussian copula model has been unfairly maligned -
Finding the best of the best
13 years ago
The world’s top performing CLOs, as measured by our unique Par Plus ratio, are listed opposite. Join us at our awards on 17 May to discover which are the very best of all -
Uniqa: Staying the course
13 years ago
How detailed CLO modelling helped Uniqa Alternative Investments keep its investors on board through the darkest days of the crisis. -
Pricing counterparty risk
13 years ago
In the first of our series of articles exploring technical aspects of the credit markets,
Eduardo Canabarro examines models for pricing credit valuation adjustment, or CVA -
Rise of the super manager
13 years ago
After a slow start, manager consolidation is changing the shape of the CLO market -
Broadcasters bounce back
13 years ago
Eighteen months ago, many broadcasters were fighting for life. But in the nick of time an increase in advertising revenue rode to the rescue. -
Credit spotlight - Mixed outlook for insurers
14 years ago
Exposure to mortgage-backed assets and European sovereigns has made insurance companies a barometer for the global economy -
CVC Cordatus - Choosing wisely
14 years ago
It's portfolios are lumpy and packed with mezzanine and second lien. So why is European loan manager CVC Cordatus doing so well? -
Credit hedge funds deliver the goods
14 years ago
Long-only credit funds have made stellar returns in the past 18 months, but credit hedge funds have delivered better Sharpe ratios -
Apidos - Credit’s true believers
14 years ago
Few CLO managers can boast they have never failed an OC test. Apidos can, and it wants the world to know about its track record -
Katonah woes put focus on public credit vehicles
14 years ago
Katonah Capital’s row with Deloitte, its auditor, and its restatement of the fair values of its assets, highlight the difficulty permacaps face in valuing illiquid assets -
Henderson Global Investors: Telling it like it is
14 years ago
Henderson Global Investors is banking on its openess and its straight-talking culture to win it mandates from outside its UK base -
Tracking the secondary CDO market
14 years ago
The Creditflux B-wic Tracker shows secondary CDO volumes staying strong and throws up some surprises amongst the managers most often mentioned Mike Peterson -
Spotlight on auto makers - A long and winding road
14 years ago
Auto makers have turned a corner – but the ending of government incentives to consumers is just one reason to believe that progress won’t be entirely straightforward -
Spotlight on airlines - Waiting for take off
14 years ago
The recession has seen 30 airlines go bust. Now the survivors are hoping that a predicted growth in passenger numbers will lift them back into profitability -
Assenagon: the basis hunter
14 years ago
Negative basis used to be an easy trade. But now Munich-based credit manager Assenagon must hunt high and low for these elusive opportunities. -
Viewpoint - Buy inefficiency
14 years ago
Hildene Capital’s Brett Jefferson and John Scannell explain the merits and perils of trups CDOs -
Spotlight on semiconductors - Saved by the smart phone
14 years ago
Growth in sales of portable computers and hi tech smart phones is helping the semiconductor industry recover. -
Credit spotlight – cash guzzlers
14 years ago
The recovery in oil prices has not helped refineries, where overcapacity and weak demand have seen cash reserves go up in smoke.
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