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It's all relative: senior CLO tranches tighten 18% in Europe as CDS indices sit out rally
The corporate credit rally in January is notable because some assets tightened to levels not seen in over a decade (loans), others rallied albeit with a lag (CLOs) and the most liquid stream of credit (CDS indices) defied moves in other asset classes to widen
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Credit touches November levels as nerves fray on France and Fed
3 years ago
Fears of a third national lockdown in France and the risk of disappointment from Wednesday's US Federal Reserve meeting have pushed credit wider along with a sell off in stocks -
Ucits at a glance: Year-to-date returns head for double figures
3 years ago
Ucits funds generally performed well in October as 75% achieved positive returns -
LP round up: Arcmont, Ares and Sixth Street win European direct lending mandates
3 years ago
Investors have allocated around $2 billion to credit funds in recent weeks, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux. Among those to recieve allocations include ADM, Arcmont, Ares, Audax, Bain, Centerbridge, Clearlake, Goldman Sachs merchant banking, Invesco, Monarch, Oaktree, Raven, Sixth Street and Sound Mark -
Spread compression resumes with US passing key milestones
3 years ago
Credit markets have resumed their crunch tighter today, with an absence of any obviously negative brakes to offset strengthening Asian industrial numbers and applications by vaccine makers for emergency approval in the US and Europe -
Compression plays out as HY and European CLO double Bs outperform
3 years ago
Investment grade and high yield credit spreads have tightened in sync with each other this week, but CDS and CLOs alike underline that the big theme over the past month has been compression between investment grade and high yield -
Selecta CDS settles with final price above bonds
3 years ago
Selecta Group CDS contracts have settled at a final price higher than where bonds were trading and above the credit event auction's initial market midpoint -
Selecta auction on course for mid-range CDS recovery
3 years ago
Selecta Group CDS contracts look set to generate a pay-out for protection buyers about midway in their range the months running up to today's credit event auction -
High yield shorts and basis trades abound as borrowers race to issue
3 years ago
Discrepancies between high yield bonds and CDS could be a rich mine of activity in the coming months, say investors, with volatility set to rise while defaults and late cycle signals avail trading opportunities -
Selecta CDS auction date set with revised deliverables process
3 years ago
The Emea Determinations Committee has set a date later this month to settle Select Group CDS and has notified a change to its rules for choosing deliverable obligations -
Selecta splashes CLOs with bankruptcy credit event
3 years ago
Selecta Group has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Emea Determinations Committee has ruled -
Tranche traders smell the coffee as Crossover default percolates
3 years ago
Selecta Group looks set to become the third European credit event in as many months to hit series 33 of the iTraxx Crossover index and tranches based on series 32 -
IG tranches look 'boring' after distressed names ejected at roll
3 years ago
September’s index rolls brought tranche traders some of the starkest portfolio changes in recent years, with fallen angels and defaults shifting correlation dynamics. This creates relative value openings, but investors will take longer to move into new series as they require extra analysis, say dealers. -
Europe/US high yield gap re-opens with roll, but raises fair value questions
3 years ago
The semi-annual roll of US high yield index CDX HY has once again put daylight between it and European counterpart iTraxx Europe. But the new series has come in tighter than some market participants had anticipated -
LP round up: $5 billion flows to credit as private market allocations increase
4 years ago
Global institutional investors allocated nearly $5 billion to credit funds this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
Curves steepen as roll shifts risk from the front end
4 years ago
CDS index curves have steepened with the September roll, with the reformulation of iTraxx and European portfolios having a noticeable impact on the front end of the curve -
Fallen angels and financials feel heat as CDS indices roll
4 years ago
CDS indices are rolling into new contracts today, with outgoing series of iTraxx Europe and Crossover widening sharply from the market’s open on technical as well as fundamental factors -
Matalan auction initial bids point to lower than expected CDS pay out
4 years ago
Early bidding in a credit event auction today to settle CDS referencing UK retailer Matalan indicates the final result will be higher than predicted by recent five-year quotes but roughly in line with modelled recoveries -
Credit event auctions mount as European resistance breaks
4 years ago
Two constituent defaults in iTraxx Crossover — the first to hit the European on-the-run index in almost two years — have made 2020 the second busiest year ever for credit event auctions -
Credit fundraising: distressed keeps in favour but CLO ETFs emerge
4 years ago
Five months into global lockdown and distressed debt funds are still proving popular, but several managers have found success pitching other types of credit strategies -
French and travel names lead sell off as UK widens quarantine list
4 years ago
European credit is pushing wider at the end of the week, following the UK's decision to remove France, the Netherlands and other countries from its list of those safe to travel to without quarantine -
Nine bonds make list to settle Noble, positing 98-cent CDS pay out
4 years ago
Nine bonds are on an initial list of deliverable obligations to settle at auction CDS referencing Noble Corporation, the latest CDX HY index constituent to trigger a bankruptcy credit event -
Fund performance: Credit funds post double-digit gains
4 years ago
June returns have once again been led by CLO funds, as seven out of the top 10 belong to our CLOs category. -
Don’t be a hero: managers opt to go market-neutral
4 years ago
There’s yet more volatility in store later this year — that’s the consensus according to credit portfolio managers that have spoken to Creditflux. What they are unsure about is the scale and direction of this movement, which is leading them to prune their portfolios with an emphasis on market-neutral tactics -
Distressed to the nines: Noble joins CDX HY default tally
4 years ago
Noble Corporation, a US offshore drilling company, has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Americas Determinations Committee has ruled - making it the ninth default in the on-the-run CDX HY index
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