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February 2024 US Leveraged Highlights
1 month ago
Debtwire today releases the February 2024 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets. -
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 -
September 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
7 months ago
Refinancing continues to amplify leveraged debt volume in Debtwire's latest report featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond market -
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. -
Refinancing continues to dominate headline figures in latest European leveraged highlights
9 months ago
Debtwire has released its July 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, containing key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets -
June 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
10 months ago
Debtwire has released the June 2023 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets. -
Fund performance
10 months ago
Good month for CLO funds sees six in top 10 as Axiom sets pace -
May 2023 European Leveraged Highlights
10 months ago
High yield bond refinancing dominates a weak market according to Debtwire's May 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets. -
European and Asian surge extends as inflation and gas improvements fuel rally
1 year ago
US credit remains the laggard as spreads elsewhere extend their strong start to the year, taking European and Asian indices back to the recent tight levels -
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 -
Early Christmas for credit longs as US inflation delivers huge rally
1 year ago
Credit markets have rallied sharply after the latest US reading of inflation came in lower than had been largely anticipated -
Bond tenders bring outperformance as credit fends off commodity woes
1 year ago
Credit markets are managing to stay remarkably robust this week despite high volatility in oil prices and covid deaths in China undermining hopes for its economy to reopen -
Fund performance: August provides much-needed relief for CLO funds
1 year ago
.August fund performance -
LP round up: private credit takes big slice of inflows as 10% portfolio share projected for 2026
1 year ago
Institutional investors revealed nearly $4 billion allocations to credit funds in July, with recipients including Angelo Gordon, Apollo, Ares, BlackRock, Brookfield, CarVal, Comvest, Deerpath, KKR, Schroders and Sixth Street -
China concerns fuel sell-off, but technical trading drives Euro-US relative value shift
1 year ago
Another lurch wider for spreads is reopening some of the recently healed divide between European and US credit performance, even though US-China relations are among investors’ biggest growing concerns -
Italian rout gathers pace as credit relationships warp well beyond historical norms
1 year ago
Renewed selling pressure on Thursday has taken credit spreads back towards the year’s wides, with financial borrowers underperforming as Chinese covid cases, US inflation and a drought in Italy all weigh on sentiment -
Europe takes brunt of spread blowout as US inflation exceeds forecasts
1 year ago
The gap in performance between European and US credit has yawned wider on Wednesday, with investors adding hedges indices in response to a key inflation number that came out higher than expected -
Fund performance: Rocky May piles on the misery for credit hedge funds
1 year ago
Negative fund performance soared in May -
Credit rally gathers momentum as Fed pitches for credibility
1 year ago
European credit’s relief rally has extended on Tuesday, with US stock futures pointing in a positive direction on return from the country’s holiday and the US dollar slipping a touch against the euro -
Europe trades heavier than US as market baulks at new hikes
1 year ago
Credit spreads have resumed their push wider, with European indices once again under more pressure than their US counterparts -
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 -
You seem familiar
1 year ago
The overlap between European CLOs has risen to 51.6%, but the largest issuers are only slightly more aligned to their peers at 55.19% — so bonds are proving to be an important differentiator -
Russia oil ban accord unites markets in sell off
1 year ago
EU leaders’ compromise agreement on banning Russian oil imports by sea has presented a united front few may have thought possible only days ago. But financial markets have not reacted positively, with risk assets selling off as the euro slumps and oil hits its highest level since March -
Credit off to stronger start as dollar longs get squeezed
1 year ago
Financial markets are off to a better start this week, with risk assets repairing some of their recent damage as the US dollar eases back from the highs it has hit against other currencies -
Defaults should keep low despite looming recession, says TwentyFour
1 year ago
Corporate default rates should remain low even as the chance of a recession looms larger, according to a new report from TwentyFour Asset Management
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