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UK universities face financial peril. Having been shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, some risk going bust, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Meanwhile, as accommodation operators grant refunds to students who are locked out and locked down, CMBS deals backed by student accommodation may survive, if sufficient numbers return to residences when the next academic year begins. Silas Brown and Tom Brown report. -
Nicholas Sossidis and Stephen Partridge-Hicks, the founders of investment manager Gordian Knot and pioneers of structured investment vehicles, are planning the firm’s comeback in the securitization market, with a new venture focused on corporate receivables ready to launch.
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CDP, the leading platform through which companies report their carbon emissions, has become the latest organisation to launch a potentially influential system of temperature ratings, so investors can work out how much global warming each company’s plans will theoretically lead to — and hence the overall temperature of a portfolio.
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Environmental, social and governance investors have been patting themselves on the back this year because their funds have tended to outperform during the coronavirus crisis. But a San Francisco hedge fund believes they are doing a poor job of shielding investors from the general risk of the stockmarket and more quantitative methods would improve the outcome.
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Intu Properties, the UK shopping centre owner, is set for collapse as it looks to call in administrators following failed discussions with lenders around debt standstills. Some fear the effects could ripple across the struggling retail sector.
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Irish insurer Ardonagh has refinanced its whole capital structure and funded the acquisitions of insurance brokers Arachas and Bravo with the largest ever unitranche loan from a group of direct lending funds, plus a $500m syndicated dollar PIK toggle note.
