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Kristian Sharp, head of European flow credit derivatives at UBS in London, has left the firm. -
BNP Paribas' Pierre Katerdjian, senior marketer in the structured products group in Sydney, left the firm last week, according to officials at the firm.
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Should a central bank react to asset prices directly or indirectly with regard to possible future threats to price stability?
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American Century Investments is riding out the flattening of the yield curve by overweighting the long end and underweighting the short parts of the curve.
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BlackRock, the mammoth fixed-income investor with nearly $400 billion in total assets under management, is trying to persuade institutional investors to amend their guidelines to allow the firm to enter credit default swaps on their behalf, said Laurence Fink, chairman and CEO.
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Banc of America Securities is adding two professionals to its agency desk.
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Joshua Ackman, credit trader at hedge fund Concordia Advisors in New York, has left the firm.
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High-grade corporate deals continue to widen after being priced--even after launching at generous levels--because credit investor risk appetite has begun to wane again.
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The inversion of the 10-year Treasury futures curve may foreshadow a cycle that repeats or is more pronounced than the richness of the June cycle.
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Delphi Corp.'s $2.8 billion refinancing managed to survive another pothole last week after both the company's treasurer and its former v.p. of treasury, mergers and acquisitions resigned as the company admitted it had overstated its liquidity.
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Eight members of Van Kampen Investment's leveraged loan team have left to start their own firm, catching the wave of professionals who have made the same move in the past few months.
