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Credit funds at a glance (February 2023)
1 year ago
A round up of people moves and fundraising -
Brighter start for credit in 2023 as investors return with bid for risk
1 year ago
Credit markets have opened the year on a positive footing, with Europe particularly buoyant as investors lift CDS hedges they placed at the end of 2022 and some bonds receive enthusiastic bids in the secondary market -
Credit belatedly gives up gains after flurry of central bank hikes
1 year ago
Credit markets barely flickered on Wednesday’s US Federal Reserve announcements, but successive central bank rate hikes on Thursday have caused spreads to widen as traders prepare for the festive season slowdown -
Credit hedge fund returns (December 2023)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Credit funds at a glance (December 2023)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Capex and real yields will split winners from losers in '23: BofA
1 year ago
Companies able to undertake capital expenditure will be the winners in 2023, while those historically most sensitive to rising real yields should inspire caution, say Bank of America strategists -
High yield markets win big in 2022’s love-letter to CDS
1 year ago
Tradeable credit assets have suffered a rough year for liquidity and returns, but credit derivatives are among a small group of products defiantly enjoying a bumper year. -
One-year CSOs come to fore as investors predict widening
1 year ago
With credit spreads entering the fourth quarter at much the same elevated levels they began Q3, investors are increasingly looking to bespoke tranches as a way of taking advantage while mitigating the market’s tail risks. -
"Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘mini budget’ will be remembered like a forklift truck disaster video"
1 year ago
Welshcake sees the funny side as bunga bunga returns -
Down in the hole: investors hedge their bets ahead of pivotal Powell
1 year ago
Credit spreads are shifting wider on Friday, after an initial improvement, as investors try to balance positions ahead of what could be a pivotal speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell -
"If earnings weaken, equity and credit markets could enter a new phase in the sell-off"
1 year ago
High yield has outperformed equities since the sell-off this year, but that relationship could change -
Europe leads relief rally while UK gets Borexit done
1 year ago
UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s resignation has brought a collective sigh of relief across all political parties on Thursday that finds pathetic fallacy – but little attributable causal connection – in a strong relief rally in European financial markets -
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 -
"Derivative longs versus cash corporate shorts looks attractive, especially if we see a market sell-off"
2 years ago
Technicals are keeping cash credit spreads tight, but as central banks reduce purchases there will be relative value opportunities -
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... -
Credit rally extends as investors welcome hawkish but clearer Fed message
2 years ago
Credit markets have carried their rally over to another day, fuelled in part by what investors have interpreted as a hawkish but clear message from the US Federal Reserve on policy tightening -
Euro volatility outpaces US with pivotal hours ahead in Ukraine
2 years ago
Financial markets took another battering on Tuesday, as Russia's war with Ukraine ramped up and western countries moved to enact new sanctions -
Eerie calm breaks as bears return to feast
2 years ago
After what looked a calmer and even buoyant start, credit markets have again pushed wider on Monday as investors wrestle with competing view on outlook for central bank policy -
Credit gives up some gains after central banks’ hawk party
2 years ago
Credit markets are ending the week on a correction wider after central bank-led bullishness drove spreads to their tightest levels of the month -
Loans will be winners in bearish year for credit: BNP Paribas
2 years ago
Floating rate loans are best positioned for a year of widening credit spreads, but high yield bonds will outperform investment grade and EM credit is set for losses, says BNP Paribas in its 2022 outlook -
US debt talks and German real estate regain composure after damaging wrangles
2 years ago
Adler Group is ending on a firmer footing what has been a rocky week for the German real estate company, as credit heads into the weekend unmoved by developments in the US on raising the country's debt ceiling -
Credit pulled in different directions as coronavirus relief opens political divisions
4 years ago
A cautious tone surrounds the return of European credit trading after the long weekend - and the Fed-package furore that ended last week. Today's lack of European credit direction comes despite big rallies in Asia, better stock markets and an EU agreement on Friday for €500 billion in stimulus measures -
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 -
Credit traders' kickstand: Trump gives Europe the ghoulies as single B spectres haunt CLOs
5 years ago
Trade tariff terrors and things that go triple C rated in the night are top of the list of items spooking credit market sentiment at the end of this week -
Cheyne more than doubles assets for credit fund in five months
5 years ago
Cheyne Capital has more than doubled assets for Cheyne Total Return Credit Fund December 2023 – in the space of just five months
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