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Fund performance: European CLO funds lead the way
1 year ago
February was a positive month for many funds, as only one quarter failed to reach the black. This builds off a stellar start to the year: 96% of funds reached a positive return in January -
Credit pivots sharply as US returns to growth and ECB confirms record hiking cycle
1 year ago
After a wider start, credit markets reversed course Thursday having digested a strong US GDP reading and the European Central Bank lifting its base rate by 75bp – a move that confirms this as the region’s most aggressive ever hiking cycle -
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 -
RBC names head of high yield trading and e-strategy for leveraged finance
2 years ago
RBC Capital Markets has promoted a high yield trader and head of leveraged finance digital strategy to the position -
Banks and loans to benefit in 2022 as safe havens dwindle
2 years ago
Safe havens and sector pitfalls are among some of the top considerations for portfolio managers this year, as a consensus forms that credit could suffer versus other asset classes -
Long duration high yield will overcome short-term rates carnage, says BofA
2 years ago
Bonds with inflation-protected real yield, longer duration, and especially those in the utilities sector are among the most compelling trades amid a phase of ‘policy paranoia’, according to Bank of America credit strategists -
Birch Grove merges with American Securities' credit business
2 years ago
US private equity firm American Securities has merged its opportunistic credit business, Ascribe Capital, with boutique alternative credit hedge fund Birch Grove Capital -
Silver squeeze reaches credit in brighter trading mood
3 years ago
Financial markets are beginning the week and the month in a more positive mood after a volatile end to January. But retail investor power - the bane of hedge funds last week - is again exerting an influence that permeates through to credit -
Credit fundraising: Dubai manager gets in on the act as direct lending takes off
3 years ago
Shuaa launches credit fund in the Gulf as Ares, Contingency, HPS and Perceptive are among those to close billion-plus funds -
Intelsat CDS set for deemed auction today at 100% recovery
3 years ago
Intelsat Investments CDS will be settled today at 100% recovery through a deemed auction, the Determinations Committee has said -
Intelsat CDS has no deliverables for an auction, says DC
4 years ago
CDS contracts referencing Intelsat Investments look to have no deliverable obligations, according to the Americas Determinations Committee, making a pay-out to protection buyers unlikely -
Intelsat triggers bankruptcy credit event
4 years ago
Intelsat Investments has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Americas Determinations Committee has ruled -
DC agrees to consider Intelsat bankruptcy credit event
4 years ago
The Americas Determinations Committee has accepted a request to rule on whether Intelsat Investments has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, after parent company Intelsat SA filed for Chapter 11 protection -
CLOs on lookout as Neiman recovery signals slump and DC confirms credit event
4 years ago
Five-year CDS referencing Neiman Marcus widened by four points to 95.25 points up front, according to IHS Markit, as the Americas Determinations Committee confirmed the US retailer has triggered a bankruptcy credit event -
US-Europe relative value gap closes as market sell-off resumes
4 years ago
Credit markets are heading wider into the weekend, with European underperformance closing a relative value gap that had opened with the US last Friday. The moves accompany detoriation in equity markets, stoked by the threat of a renewed US-China tariff war, pressured bank results, airline job cuts and poor UK economic numbers -
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 -
Sprint Comms CDS races tighter on T-Mobile merger nod
4 years ago
Sprint Communications, a telco constituent of US high yield index CDX HY, was by far the biggest mover in CDS yesterday, after the Federal Court in New York approved the company’s proposed merger with T-Mobile US -
Challenge rejected on cheapest-to-deliver bonds for Windstream CDS auction
5 years ago
The Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has unanimously rejected a challenge by a market participant against allowing some of the cheapest Windstream bonds to be delivered into an auction to settle CDS referencing the company -
Past returns: drawing crowds is not easy for bond trading platforms
6 years ago
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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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