Private Debt – Page 17
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Bonds, alternatives drive 12% return at DAX-listed company schemes
Liabilities on rise together with assets, consultancies warn
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High-yield sees record issuance as European markets ease terms
Second quarter sees peak issuance before falling steadily but keeping 2014 as record level
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Resurgent banking market sees Irish SWF shift to junior debt, equity funding
Post-crisis funding gap replaced by ‘wall of liquidity’ coming from bank debt back into Ireland
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NewsGermany's BVK sets up vehicle to finance municipal debt
Eight-figure debt instrument granted to unnamed city in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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PIC sees opportunity in ‘particularly attractive’ Thames sewer construction
Insurer says governments ‘talked up’ infrastructure pipelines, but projects have failed to materialise
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Pension investors remain unconvinced about role in SME lending
Respondents to IPE survey fail to see institutional investors as major source of financing in 15 years time
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Strathclyde boosts New Opportunities portfolio with new mandates
UK’s largest local government fund to move into social infrastructure, renewable energy production
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European institution tenders $500m corporate loan mandate using IPE-Quest
Investor looking for senior loan exposure in core European markets, UK and US
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Dangerous liquidity
Following another summer of high-yield bond market volatility, Emma Cusworth asks whether ETFs are to blame for credit markets getting riskier
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High-yield Bonds & Loans: Covenants and calls
Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward ask whether investors’ traditional protections are getting squeezed out in the convergence of high yield bond and loan markets
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Asset Class ReportsHigh-yield Bonds & Loans: Revolution from above and below
Few markets outside the emerging world have changed to the extent that European high-yield has over recent years. Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward find transformation coming from the massive to the micro, from above and below
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Structured Credit & Loans: A structural spread
European loans seem to offer compelling value against the US market. But Joseph Mariathasan uncovers some telling structural disadvantages on this side of the Atlantic
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Structured Credit & Loans: Senior secure
David Gillmor and Taron Wade find Europe’s senior loan market delivering a strong recovery over its first cycle
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Structured Credit & Loans: It’s a good cop-bad cop thing
Martin Steward speaks with David Creighton of Cordiant Capital on structuring emerging market loans alongside the world’s major development banks
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Structured Credit & Loans: Collateral damage
Tarred with the same brush as the US securities that sparked the 2008 crisis, Europe’s ABS are shunned by investors and regulators alike. Joseph Mariathasan finds that pension funds might be the key to bringing depth to the market again
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Structured Credit & Loans: Don’t go it a-loan
Jim Cass outlines the operational challenges involved in investing in leveraged loans – and why outsourcing could be the solution
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Structured Credit: Alphabet soup: a second helping
Joseph Mariathasan takes a look at the structured credit and loans markets and finds a surprising abundance of reasons to tuck back into the alphabet soup, even after significant spread-tightening
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Packaging illiquid assets
Michael Wode and Stewart Bent consider the practical implications of the side arrangements fund managers employ in dealing with illiquid assets
