Citi promotes structured credit specialist to top Emea credit trading role
Another senior official in Citi's credit team has been promoted

Italian rout gathers pace as credit relationships warp well beyond historical norms
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

CBOs return as Anchorage second deal takes year's tally to three
Anchorage Capital on Wednesday priced the third US CBO of the year, with outflows from the high yield market having prompted CLO and bond-flex CLO managers to step in to try to take advantage of deeply discounted bond prices

Europe takes brunt of spread blowout as US inflation exceeds forecasts
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

Algebris adds second PM in two months to credit opportunities team
Algebris Investments has hired a co-portfolio manager for its Global Credit Opportunities strategies

Euro credit drives wider as currency hits parity with dollar
Caution ahead of the latest US inflation numbers, weakening commodity prices, and the euro falling to within touching distance of the dollar have taken financial markets on another downwards push, with European credit again an underperformer

IG payers provide best tail-risk hedges: Barclays
Investors seeking the cheapest tail risk hedge should look to CDX IG payers, while iTraxx Europe payers are the best hedge against further European underperformance, finds Barclays

Mixed signals abound but European weakness persists
European financial markets are losing further ground against the US in a cautious start to the week, as the euro approaches parity with the dollar for the first time and latest data supports the Federal Reserve maintaining a hawkish approach to policy

Go long duration in consumers and industrials: BofA
The year’s wides still lie ahead in the second half, but China reopening is bullish for consumer and industrial spreads and investors should extend duration in high-quality credit, according to Bank of America strategists

Euro loans with FX hedging offer better value than US: Barclays
The big underperformance of European loans in June has left them looking cheap versus those in the US – but FX hedging and a nuanced selection process are advisable for investors looking to take advantage of that

SocGen promotes credit head in New York
Societe Generale has appointed a 20-year veteran of the bank to head of fixed income for the Americas

"If earnings weaken, equity and credit markets could enter a new phase in the sell-off"
High yield has outperformed equities since the sell-off this year, but that relationship could change

Europe leads relief rally while UK gets Borexit done
UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s resignation has brought a collective sigh of relief across all political parties on Thursday that finds pathetic fallacy – but little attributable causal connection – in a strong relief rally in European financial markets

HSBC AM's responsible investing head resigns with view to creating "new asset class"
HSBC Asset Management’s global head of responsible investing has resigned after been suspended by the firm. This followed him delivering a conference speech in May in which he downplayed the impact of climate change on financial markets

Fund performance: Rocky May piles on the misery for credit hedge funds
Negative fund performance soared in May

Credit hedge funds (July 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

Ucits at a glance: LBBW shines as Ucits take a turn for the worse
Ucits fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit  

ECB wizards seek ‘anti-fragmentation’ spell to calm spreads
Eurozone financial market performance this month will heavily focus on the European Central Bank’s unveiling of an ‘anti-fragmentation tool’ as it races to avert a blow-out of peripheral spreads and the build-up of longer-term financing problems

Citi Emea credit trading head earns promotion
Citi has promoted a senior figure in its credit business to regional head of markets for Emea

Europe vs US arb hits resistance as dislocation becomes more extreme
Recession fears have pushed several different asset classes to key psychological levels, while leaving European and US credit markets at a high level of dislocation

LP round up: 28 credit managers win $6.6 billion as San Diego carves private credit allocation
Pensions allocated over $6.6 billion to credit managers in June including Angelo Gordon, Antares, Apollo, Ares, Beach Point, BioPharma, Brookfield, CarVal, Cerberus...

Euro markets slump against US after slowdown signals drive sell off
European credit is once again underperforming the US, after data pointing to economic slowdown sent the euro to a 20-year low against the dollar

CLO spreads are not pricing in recession: JP Morgan
CLOs are priced fairly for a growth slowdown but not a recession, according to JP Morgan credit strategists, who warn spreads are at risk if US growth contracts

Credit tacks sharply as hiking talk brings choppy start to week
European financial markets opened the week on a cautious footing, after a weak Asian session, with credit indices oscillating between wider and tighter prints over the course of Monday morning