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End on a high: institutional loan and HY bond issuance rises 44% YoY
4 months ago
Leveraged finance (LevFin) issuance across the US institutional loan and high-yield (HY) bond markets totalled USD 529bn in 2023, representing a 44% year-on-year (YoY) increase -
DebtDynamics EMEA | Under pressure: likely-to-distress scores highlight struggling industries and regional woes
6 months ago
The European leveraged market has crossed the threshold of 100 companies at the stressed/distressed lifecycle stage, according to Debtwire data -
CLO funds are hot in summer as they take nine spots in top 10 (Fund performance)
8 months ago
CLO funds took the lead through summer as the returns of the category index reached 1.88% and 3.18% in June and July, respectively. Both months saw a CLO fund as the top performer — Sound Point Meridian in June, and Oxford Gate Master Fund in July. -
Primary loan and bond markets shows signs of revival, but at a cost
9 months ago
Activity in the US junk debt market has picked up after the 4th of July and the momentum is expected to continue through 2H23, but at a cost for issuers. -
CDS volume jumps by 50% as investors seek new ways to do business
1 year ago
Credit derivatives traders are wrapping up a bumper year, in which there was a big increase in volume and a growing number of use cases for the product -
Fund performance: Wake us up when September ends
1 year ago
After a resurgent August, credit markets hit a rough patch in September, with every Creditflux index posting negative returns, and only 12.9% of funds in our listings showing a positive return. -
It's time for bullish reversal on IG credit to play decompression: JP Morgan
1 year ago
Having been bearish most of the year JP Morgan has changed its view on investment grade credit to neutral, saying value has become too cheap to ignore -
Credit Suisse and UK names lead charge as European IG outperforms
1 year ago
European investment grade credit is rallying strongly at the start of this week, in contrast to a sluggish start by its US counterpart market, with Credit Suisse and UK companies among the outperformers -
LP round up: Magnetar and Värde among winners as $3 billion flows to credit
1 year ago
Institutional investors allocated at least $3 billion to credit funds in August -
LP round up: 28 credit managers win $6.6 billion as San Diego carves private credit allocation
1 year ago
Pensions allocated over $6.6 billion to credit managers in June including Angelo Gordon, Antares, Apollo, Ares, Beach Point, BioPharma, Brookfield, CarVal, Cerberus... -
Talen bond squeeze brings low auction pay-out for protection holders
1 year ago
A credit event auction to settle Talen Energy Supply CDS has delivered a much higher result than had been predicted from bond prices, fuelled by a bidding squeeze on deliverable paper -
Beneath the triple C: CLOs take first knock since covid scrapes
1 year ago
CLO managers have been hit by a number of loan downgrades to triple C for the first time since the wave of pandemic-related cuts trickled to a halt in early 2021. Companies indirectly linked to the health sector suffered most in May -
Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
1 year ago
There was more upheaval for credit funds in April, reversing the mini-recovery in March as 40% of funds made positive returns, a decrease on the 47% in March -
Ucits at a glance: Diamond shines after dull start to year
1 year ago
Ucits funds have continued to arrest the slide that followed the dip in February, as 37% of funds in April saw positive returns -
Talen credit event auction deliverables point to 47 cent recovery
1 year ago
Talen Energy Supply’s credit event auction looks set to have 16 bonds deliverable, including senior unsecured notes that are priced much lower than its senior secured, according to a preliminary list published by the Americas Determinations Committee -
CLO managers in the mix for first US credit event auction since 2020
1 year ago
CDS contracts referencing Talen Energy Supply will be settled by credit event auction next month. And Talen's recovery levels will have relevance for a number of CLO managers that have held onto the company's debt - in some cases having bought more very recently -
Talen triggers first index-hitting credit event since Europcar
2 years ago
Talen Energy Supply has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has ruled, making this the first default to hit US high yield index CDX HY since September 2020 and the first to hit a CDS index since January last year -
CDX HY faces first constituent default since 2020
2 years ago
The Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has accepted a request to rule on a CDX HY index constituent default - the first it has faced in the US since mid-2020 -
High yield gap yawns open after US index roll
2 years ago
A market rally ahead of Russia/Ukraine peace talks has added to the gap between European and US high yield credit derivative index spreads, a day after CDX HY rolled into a new on-the-run series -
Investors look to US response after Putin lights touch paper on Ukraine intervention
2 years ago
Credit investors are left facing a what-happens-next moment after Vladimir Putin recognised the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as independent states, paving the way for Russian forces to intervene. In response the US has moved swiftly to impose new sanctions targeting the two regions -
French airline flies against flock on pandemic repayment plans
2 years ago
Air France is a standout improver on Thursday against a backdrop of broad deterioration in single name credit spreads -
Scramble to cover shorts extends rally, but analysts stub out tobacco
2 years ago
European outperformance of US credit is picking up despite the UK posting record inflation numbers, as optimism on Ukraine combines with the wrong-footing of investors that had positioned extremely bearishly -
Fund performance: Wasserstein's early 2021 performance drives it to the top
2 years ago
The final top 10 of 2021 featured a variety of funds as five different strategies were ranked among the best. US high yield was the most highly represented with two BlackRock funds and an Angel Oak in the top 10 -
Troubled high yield credits go against flow as market rallies
2 years ago
Credit markets are beginning February with a more buoyant mood, but idiosyncratic volatility is keeping investors on their toes with several European high yield single name credits making big moves -
ESG template fires up hopes of CSO issuance
2 years ago
2021 may not have been a year of big volume in the synthetic bespoke market, but primary business is back, and decisive inroads into environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused issuance bode well for 2022
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