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Points up front: Best to price your deals between 12 and 6am
5 years ago
The latest addition to JP Morgan’s index suite — which aims to quantify the impact of US president Donald Trump’s tweets on the financial markets — has been so popular it has landed its own Wikipedia entry -
If you can stomach volatility, CLO equity is very attractive
Brandon Cahill of BlueMountain Capital Management takes our credit quiz5 years ago -
Helicopter money is more productive than sponsoring the next bout of company share buybacks
5 years ago
The ECB is set to recommence its asset purchase programme, but what’s wrong with putting money directly into the hands of people? -
Past returns: Unfinished business in CLOs
5 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux we reported that DA Capital was looking for a way back into CLO management. The firm had sold its four US CLOs in 2011 to Citi Alternative Investments (now known as Napier Park Global Capital), but a rally had convinced the firm it was time to issue CLOs again. -
Continuous par build can provide a rainy-day fund for when downgrades to triple Cs pour in
6 years ago
If CLO managers are preparing for mass downgrades to triple C loans, then trading gains and thick OC cushions are the best defences -
Private credit managers are partially insulated from daily market moves — for them it’s the dough, not the Dow
6 years ago
If asked about credit investing, Yogi Berra might have said take the fork in the road leading to private credit, says our columnist Randy Schwimmer -
The biggest credit stories in 2017
7 years ago
CLO ramp-up risk, new risk retention proposals and new CLO joint ventures were in the headlines last year. Here, Creditflux reveals the most read stories of 2017 -
They said it: long faces on flow traders
7 years ago
Citi’s Jim Hughes tells the Creditflux CLO Investor Summit about how difficult life is for flow credit traders -
A successful transition from prop desk to hedge fund
7 years ago
This month 10 years ago, negotiations over the fate of an important set of structured credit investors were on a knife edge -
Join the debate: Ellington’s CLO debut
8 years ago
“The bond has a story, but you get paid for that” -
Points up front: very superstitious
12 years ago
CLO managers are often superstitious
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