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2020 will be about relative value, watching for idiosyncratic risk and a good deal of running away
4 years ago
Investors must embrace change — it’s time for structured credit investors to look beyond vanilla CLOs -
Don’t get too comfortable. The truth is there are hundreds of things that could be catalysts for a sell-off
4 years ago
Just because there’s no obvious sign of a sell-off, doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen. Often, market moves defy logic -
‘Buying the dip’ is going to be a poor investment strategy when the next downturn comes
4 years ago
The next credit downturn will be shallower but more prolonged than the last, so what works will be different, too -
For a while, it seemed like every private equity fund was launching a credit fund
Trent Webster, Senior investment officer for strategic investments, State Board of Administration of Florida, takes our credit quiz4 years ago -
It may seem a bit rich for Welshcake to tell staid CLO investors they need to be more sensible
4 years ago
Bespokes are the next big thing — and you’d be wise to get involved -
If you can stomach volatility, CLO equity is very attractive
Brandon Cahill of BlueMountain Capital Management takes our credit quiz4 years ago -
Points up front: Loan deal with 23 takes Griezmann to Barcelona
4 years ago
Soccer financing firm 23 Capital has been adding credit experts to its team and now has a CLO specialist captaining its capital markets effort, with former Guggenheim Securities co-head of ABS/CLO syndication Sreesha Vaman joining last month. The squad already features credit portfolio managers Sam Filer (ex-BMS Finance), David O’Connor (Mizuho) and Ardeshir Sorabjee (Deutsche Bank). -
Points up front: Cap wearer plays trump card in support of SRT
4 years ago
Such has been the success of Donald Trump’s “make America great again” caps that structured credit folks have started sporting their own versions. Santander’s Jeremy Hermant has been seen in the streets of London proudly wearing a cap with the motto “make SRT great again”. Hermant works in the significant risk transfer team and tells Creditflux that he has been campaigning for SRTs for the past few years. -
They said it: "I saw a CLO OM which ran 484 pages"
4 years ago
At Creditflux’s Credit Dimensions event, JP Morgan’s Zaheen Mir argues that CSOs are simpler to understand than CLOs -
You can’t time everything 100% correctly, but being too early can be a mistake
5 years ago
ArrowMark's Kaelyn Abrell takes our credit quiz -
Past returns: Citi kickstarts CSO market
5 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported on the revival of the synthetic CDO market, with Citi leading the push -
Points up front: Creditflux makes significant SRT call
5 years ago
They were once referred to as regulatory capital relief trades (or reg-cap trades), but now no one can agree on what to call them -
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 -
Points up front: super senior CSO investors wanted
5 years ago
As part of a vibrant opening panel at Creditflux’s Credit Dimensions event in New York last month, we came tantalisingly close to issuing a managed CSO in front of a live audience (if you ignore formalities such as warehousing risk and sourcing single name CDS) -
Past returns: Sell-off averted
5 years ago
Ten years ago in Creditflux we reported on National Penn reclassifying its CDO investments from ‘available for sale’ to ‘hold to maturity’ -
Eleven years on and trups CDOs are still the best investment in credit
5 years ago
Hildene's Brett Jefferson takes our credit quiz -
Join the debate: most memorable moment in credit
6 years ago
At Creditflux we’ve now produced 200 monthly magazines since Fishknife first came up with the idea of tracking the global credit markets in 2001). We asked several key credit industry officials about their most memorable moment in credit -
Past returns: Europe's own risk retention rewrite
6 years ago
Five years ago we reported that European CLO managers were hunting for partners to retain risk retention on their behalf. Shortly after, regulators performed a U-turn (nothing new here) and decided to prohibit third parties from acting as risk retainers -
Past returns: binomial expansion model was the catalyst for shorting AIG
6 years ago
10 years ago, Creditflux reported on AIG's approach to marking its structured credit book. The article prompted one trader to put on a large short position which profited as AIG turned to the US government for a bail-out -
A successful transition from prop desk to hedge fund
6 years ago
This month 10 years ago, negotiations over the fate of an important set of structured credit investors were on a knife edge -
Join the debate: should a government bond make it through an ethical screen?
6 years ago
Alcohol – yes (tax benefit); Tobacco – yes (tax benefit); Weapons – absolutely; government bond?? -
Past returns: Spanish financials trade comes good
6 years ago
Five years ago, hedge funds piled into Spanish bank debt on the belief that a bail-out of Spain would leave senior bank debt investors unscathed. -
Leveraging mid-market loans could be disastrous
7 years ago
StoneCastle’s Joshua Siegel takes our credit quiz
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