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  • Rothesay Asset Management North America promoted Robert Allard to a newly created role of chief investment officer and added Daniel Parisi as mortgage analyst in a move to ramp up its US structured finance team.
  • Institutional investors holding Hammerson’s £689m ($900.27m) of private placements (PPs) are to be offered a pre-payment option first after the UK property company’s intended rights issue, according to a prospectus on the upcoming trade. Unlike the UK property company’s bondholders and bank lenders, during their coronavirus amendment process, PP investors negotiated an offer of pre-payment at par of 30% of any proceeds of capital raises or disposals.
  • Institutional investors in private placements (PPs) have signalled their appetite for borrowers beyond their typical stables throughout the coronavirus pandemic. But this week’s transaction from Vanguard Group — the largest in the market’s history — showed the size of funding available, as buyers demand bigger deals. Silas Brown reports.
  • The Vanguard Group, the US asset manager which pioneered low cost, index-tracking investment, has sold $3bn worth of private placements. According to GlobalCapital data, this deal is the largest ever recorded in the US private placement market.
  • Great Portland Estates, the UK real estate investment trust, is looking to close a set of private placements next week, according to market sources.
  • Regular credits in the private placement markets in Europe, like UK utilities, have disappeared from the scene since the coronavirus pandemic began because investors have not managed to reduce their yield targets to compete with pricing in public markets. Silas Brown reports.