All Investment Grade Credit articles – Page 2
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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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Investment Grade Credit: Set for new trends
Strategy Review, Investment Grade Credit: Martin Steward finds investment-grade credit portfolio managers getting excited about energy sector volatility and a big change to regulation of bank capital structures
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Investment Grade Credit: What’s next for ABS?
While the tone of the authorities has changed markedly over recent months, there are still many anomalies in the way securitisation is regulated in Europe
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Investment Grade Credit: When the flows reverse
Jittery investors at the top of markets and liquidity mis-matches within investment products could exacerbate the current lack of market-maker liquidity in corporate bonds. Charlotte Moore assesses the risk
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Investment Grade Credit: Worth the weight
Smart beta has taken the equities world by storm in the past three years, and practitioners are now turning their attention to bond markets – including credit. Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward look at some of the strategies becoming available
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Investment Grade Credit: Electronic liquidity taps open up
A recent paper from Pictet Asset Management paints a picture of fast-diminishing liquidity, but also some innovative responses. Martin Steward reports
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Investment Grade Credit: No bears threaten Goldilocks
After the big spread-tightening, managers warn against the shortest maturities and talk up senior bank debt, bottom-up bond-picking and relative value basis trades David Turner explores opportunities in the euro-zone credit sweet spot
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Investment Grade Credit: The last bastion of value
Sluggish growth and subdued corporate confidence persuade sterling and euro credit managers that their asset class remains ‘the best house in a bad neighbourhood’, finds Martin Steward
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