Credit – Page 12
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Special Report Credit: Avoid the flashpoints
Spreads and liquidity are two current (and seemingly perennial) concerns for investors navigating their way along the credit spectrum. To add to that, investors are now assessing the effect of the ECB’s announcement that it will extend asset purchases to investment-grade bonds
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Leveraged Loans: An attractive niche
Leveraged loans and CLOs represent a niche that is increasingly interesting for European institutional investors and multi-asset credit funds
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Asset-Backed Lending: Take your pick
Europe offers good prospects for asset-backed lending with opportunities for investors to step into the shoes of banks in certain markets, reports Lynn Strongin Dodds
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Special Report
EM corporate debt: an emerging asset class
We examine the attractions of emerging market corporate debt, which has evolved rapidly in terms of issuance in recent years
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Special Report
Investors: Focused approaches
A look at how and why pension funds are implementing alternative credit investment strategies
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Life in an alternative universe
Structural changes in pension fund asset and liability profiles are making alternative credit more attractive to pension funds. This is transforming fixed-income allocations as investors navigate a new universe and compete for scarce assets
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Asset Allocation: Credit where credit’s due
Alex Koriath explores why and how pension funds may want to consider a diversified portfolio of credit strategies
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News
Strathclyde awards £750m in mandates with 'enhanced yield' strategy
Pension fund to double allocation to short-term enhanced yield strategies
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News
Greater Manchester hires managers for £750m credit framework
Fund appoints three managers outside current suite of six external managers to framework
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NewsFRR awards 11 active corporate bond mandates [updated]
Total indicative size is €8.5bn, split into euros and US dollar mandates
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Asset Class ReportsInvestment Grade Credit: A fork in the track
Divergent monetary policy is driving investment-grade bond strategies, with greater opportunity in the US market than in Europe
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Asset Class Reports
Liquidity: Cloud with a silver lining
Lower liquidity in fixed income markets, including investment grade, gives rise to opportunities as well as risks
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Features
Alternative Credit: Portfolio role for alternative credit
Alternative credit provides a breadth of diversity that can help investors create better risk-adjusted portfolios for outperformance in a tough market, writes Nimisha Srivastava
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European Credit: Quality please
Lynn Strongin Dodds finds managers cautiously selective on European credit in the face of wider turmoil and a sluggish outlook
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Features
US Illiquid Credit: Bankers by default
Structural changes in banking, regulation and low interest rates are transforming the illiquid loans market
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News
Concern over pension-fund shadow banks 'exaggerated', PIMCO says
Institutional investors have little in common with unregulated banks, asset manager says
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News
PNO Media puts investments in infrastructure, microfinance on hold
Dutch sector-wide fund for media reconsiders investments after assessment of returns versus risks and costs
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Royal London wins £250m credit mandate from South Yorkshire scheme
Mercer-led search yields 33 offers
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Credit: Financial Sector High Yield
Since the financial crisis the high-yield universe has been flooded with bank debt, thanks to downgrades and increasing subordinated issuance
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Credit: Private Placements & SMEs
Europe’s private placement markets have so far been the preserve of larger, investment-grade borrowers. But there are signs that credit-hungry smaller companies may finally be getting a look in
