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Position cutting tames market rally and strategists warn on primary impact
1 year ago
Caution is the watchword across financial markets on Tuesday, with the strong recent run giving way to hedging and position cutting ahead of a much-anticipated US inflation reading on Wednesday -
IG payers provide best tail-risk hedges: Barclays
1 year ago
Investors seeking the cheapest tail risk hedge should look to CDX IG payers, while iTraxx Europe payers are the best hedge against further European underperformance, finds Barclays -
JP Morgan splits global head of institutional structuring role as it promotes three
2 years ago
JP Morgan has rejigged part of its credit structuring business with a set of promotions for officials who have covered SRTs, CLOs and CSOs as part of cross-asset roles -
Infrastructure manager targets €1 billion for eclectic mix of project finance debt and SRTs
2 years ago
A Copenhagen-based firm is launching its first credit fund and has partnered with an SRT specialist in London for a component of its potential €1 billion offering -
Lazard targets IG, crossover and HY in long/short credit ucits fund
2 years ago
Lazard Asset Management has unveiled a new credit ucits fund that will invest primarily in investment grade, crossover and high yield bonds in Europe and North America -
Past returns: Having a whale of a time in tranches
2 years ago
In Creditflux 10 years ago we reported on JP Morgan’s “little known prop book” making waves in index tranches -
Go long index mezz tranches to pick up spread: Citi
3 years ago
Citi research has outlined some of the opportunities that have arisen in the index tranche market as a result of elevated correlation -
Former JP Morgan credit correlation head launches $200 million fund
3 years ago
The former head of credit correlation trading at JP Morgan has launched a global credit fund management business with $200 million of assets, according to market sources -
Italian banks push wider on EU coronabond stand-off
4 years ago
Political divisions over tackling the coronavirus economic crisis are front and foremost for European credit traders this week ahead of an EU leaders virtual summit on Thursday, with Italian and Spanish banks among today's worst performers in CDS -
Credit traders' kickstand: rolling with the pain, as relative value trades come unstuck
4 years ago
What a difference a month - and a pandemic - make. This time in February, no-one could have imagined a global financial crisis would be unfolding, that credit performance would be a battle between a virus and some of the biggest government and central bank interventions on record, that today's iTraxx Europe and CDX index rolls would traverse unprecedented ranges, that option expiry strikes would be blown beyond recognition, or that cash and CDS differentials would be whipsawing with such violence -
CDS index rolls to proceed on time despite record volatility and lockdowns
4 years ago
This Friday's move into new CDS index series will go ahead as scheduled, administrator IHS Markit has said, having sought advice on whether to postpone the roll date due to coronavirus-led market volatility -
Credit hits new wides as US and Europe ramp up coronavirus battle plans
4 years ago
An emergency weekend rate cut by the US Federal Reserve as well as population lockdowns in France and Spain underscore that measures of economic risk have moved to a more systemic level as world governments scramble to deal with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak -
Credit traders’ kickstand: roll nightmares haunt CDS market as indices whiplash
It’s Friday 13th, but CDS traders will be hoping the worst of the horror shows are behind them as they try to regather their shredded nerves in time for next week’s biannual index rolls -
Curve inversion for airlines and freight as Trump travel ban sparks sell-off
4 years ago
Airlines, travel firms and shipping companies are among some of the credits hit hardest by US president Donald Trump’s imposition of a ban on travel from mainland Europe, a move that sent the iTraxx Crossover index back to its widest level since October 2012 -
Credit breakdown as one-day volatility outstrips financial crisis
4 years ago
Credit default swap markets have surpassed the record one-day volatility of the global financial crisis, with indices surging to new wide prints as the spiralling impact of the coronavirus outbreak brings government lockdowns on travel while wreaking havoc on oil prices and supply chains -
Apollo CLO and CSO specialists earn promotion to partner
4 years ago
Apollo Global Management has promoted two members of its global structured credit team, according to market sources -
Franklin Templeton reorganises long-short credit fund team
4 years ago
Asset manager Franklin Templeton Investments will make changes to the portfolio managers for the Franklin K2 Long Short Credit funds, effective from October -
Barclays rehires high yield credit trader from Goldman Sachs
4 years ago
A high yield specialist has become the second credit trader in as many months to rejoin Barclays from Goldman Sachs -
Jefferies creates team and aims to build CSO business
5 years ago
Amid mounting buy-side interest in the synthetic CDO market, sources say that Jefferies is looking to build a US business arranging these transactions -
Past returns: secret CLO market
5 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported on the emergence of an inter-dealer market for CLOs -
Global head of credit correlation leaves JP Morgan to launch new hedge fund
5 years ago
Market sources say that a high profile figure, known to have been responsible for unwinding JP Morgan's 'London whale' positions, has left the bank to start his own hedge fund -
Tracking down the credit industry’s original winners
6 years ago
All winning managers at the first Creditflux awards survived the crisis, under their own names – like BlackRock – or under new owners. But what happened to the people who collected the trophies?
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Cheyne generates double-digit returns for hedge funds
6 years ago
Cheyne Capital has delivered with two credit hedge funds that have reached their maturity -
Synthetic CDOs seek to follow CLOs
6 years ago
Growing issuance, interest in longer maturities and the emergence of a secondary market are encouraging dealers to believe that bespokes are on the road to acceptance. By Sayed Kadiri -
Investing ethically is worth it
7 years ago
Managers could see less volatile returns as a result of their increasing adoption of ESG-friendly portfolios; meanwhile direct lending is spreading across Europe
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