Investment Grade Credit – Page 2
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Asset Class ReportsInvestment Grade Credit: Always a demand for quality
Capital markets are fluctuating between optimism and pessimism
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NewsMandate roundup: LGPS Central launches multi-asset credit manager search
Plus: Cometa awards €1.4bn to Generali; German investor tenders hIgh bond yields brief
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Border to Coast starts first fixed income fund
Insight Investments, M&G Investments and Royal London Asset Management have been selected to run the fund
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Bfinance: Investment grade credit offers performance satisfaction
55% of respondents that had some explicit equity downside protection in place prior to the crash
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Asset Class ReportsIssuance: Down but not out
The huge growth of BBB-rated credits in the investment-grade sector has raised some concern but there are opportunities for investors
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Asset Class ReportsRatings: When corporates can trump sovereigns
Several factors can place corporate credit ratings higher than that of the domicile country
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Asset Class ReportsInvestment Grade Credit: Veering between extremes
Capital markets are fluctuating between optimism and pessimism
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Liquidity: Search for liquidity widens
Fund managers are paying attention to more liquidity indicators when making investment decisions
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Investment Grade Credit: Will the global rally last?
The global economy appears to be entering a period of greater stability and low volatility but risks remain for fixed-income investors
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Issuance: Opportunity of a lifetime?
Are the ultra-low government-bond yields across the euro-zone a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for European and US companies to issue debt?
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Investment Grade Credit: Market distortions
Regulatory pressures and political uncertainty triggered by the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump are creating challenges for investors in global debt markets
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Sensitivity of global investment grade credit funds to macro factors
PureGroup analyses the sensitivity of the five largest global investment grade credit funds to changes in macroeconomic factors
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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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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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Investing In Investment Grade Credit: A widening spread
Joseph Mariathasan finds that the divergence of USD and EUR corporate bond performance tells us a lot about how badly Europe’s economy is lagging that of the US
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Investing In Investment Grade Credit: Problem solving
Forthcoming solvency rules led many insurers away from equities towards corporate bonds just in time to dodge the financial crisis. With yields low and spreads tight, but the Solvency II ghost still at the feast, Joseph Mariathasan looks at what they are doing now
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Investing In Investment Grade Credit : Improved credit rating?
The financial crisis threw the spotlight on rating agencies. In particular, the failures in sub-prime asset-backed securities (ABS) that were seen as the catalyst that unleashed the global maelstrom of 2007-09 called into question their methodologies for rating structured products.
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Investing In Investment Grade Credit: Too much reliance on quick and dirty signals
Ratings agencies were given far too much authority in the era of de-regulation in order to encourage more cross-border and non-professional investment, argue Paolo Di Caro and Belmiro Oliveira. Removing their judgements from financial regulation is a belated recognition of the damage that was caused
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Investing In Investment Grade Credit: New year’s resolution
The end of the de-leveraging cycle could signal a comeback for senior debt issuance in 2015. But Charlotte Moore identifies the new ‘TLAC’ regulation as the truly significant factor for the long-term shape of bank capitaL
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Investment Grade Credit: Securing liquidity
Banks may no longer be able to make markets in non-Volcker-compliant CLOs. We look at what this means and why it could be a particular problem for European structures
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