The prudent choice
Managers at Pramerica Fixed Income (which is called Prudential outside the UK) believe it has the scale and track record needed to secure replacement mandates

Insolvency - Australia: no time to waste
Australian directors who don’t act quickly can find themselves liable for some of their company’s debt

Credit managers wake up to Ucits
One big disadvantage of Ucits III funds – the strict rules about liquidity – is also their trump card

Managers: A model of consistency
Managers: A model of consistency

Brokers: Welcome to the new Street
Wall Street and Canary Wharf are dead. Full-service investment banks are broken. And credit sales people are flocking to a new tier of firms. Laura Jones meets the key players. Rarely has a great industry declined so fast. It was not just the demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers last year that marked the end of a particular age for the financial markets. It was also the dramatic fall in risk appetite at the remaining "bulge-bracket" firms and the wholesale exodus of staff.

A very messy default
A very messy default

Stanfield gets back to basics
Credit downturns are nothing new to Stanfield Capital – so it has been preparing for the coming default cycle for some time

Trying hard to stay small
FSI Capital has suddenly been transformed from a specialist in mid-tier financial credits into one of the biggest managers of ABS CDOs. That was not how it planned to grow

It’s about leverage
For GSC’s US loan team, liquidity is nice. But what really matters is choosing low levered loans and working with the borrowers

Keeping faith with loans
The loan veterans at Invesco see light at the end of the tunnel. But they haven't seen markets quite like this

The wild cat strikes early
To get a feel for the world of CDOs, according to Prudential M&G, one could do worse than look to its Panther series

CDO deal captains set sail for new waters
CDO deal captains set sail for new waters

The market where size matters
Who are the biggest cash CDO managers? It's an important question in a market where size brings advantages

Giving CDO investors what they want
Some CDO managers are more transparent than others. Who's hot and who's not in investor reporting?

What’s in Babson Capital's box?
A sure way to gain some extra ‘street cred’ currently is to be in the running for a credit derivative product company

End view: Volume isn't everything
End view: Volume isn't everything

Special report: March of the modellers: a guide to credit derivative pricing tools
Special report: March of the modellers: a guide to credit derivative pricing tools

End view: Mining the illiquid assets seam
End view: Mining the illiquid assets seam

End view: SGAM Alternative Investments: Mixing quant and fundamentals
End view: SGAM Alternative Investments: Mixing quant and fundamentals

End view: Avendis Capital
End view: Avendis Capital

End view: Scourge of the index huggers
End view: Scourge of the index huggers

End view: Wildcat manager eyes new prey
End view: Wildcat manager eyes new prey

Special report: Synthetic CDO performance defies perceptions
Special report: Synthetic CDO performance defies perceptions

End view: Teaching Vienna the credit waltz
End view: Teaching Vienna the credit waltz

End view: KBC AIM crunches credit-equity numbers
End view: KBC AIM crunches credit-equity numbers