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Bear Stearns has set up a European structured finance research effort in London.

Weiss, Peck & Greer plans to continue to overweight corporates.

Chubb Corp. will buy $300 million of agency planned amortization classes in the coming months.

European insurance companies are expected to increase their investments in asset-backed securities this year, with insurers within the ING Group ready to double their exposure.

It has been a slightly unusual first quarter for issuance of corporate bonds.

Hartford Investment Management will reduce its exposure to 30-year mortgage-backed securities.

ING Investment Management has merged the two departments that oversee the management of E195 billion in fixed income assets.

Ujjival Desai has left Goldman Sachs after nine years with the firm to head up J.P. Morgan Securities' European collateralized debt obligation structuring and origination business, according to a firm official.

Mortgage originators are increasingly using third-party wraps on deals that are standalone triple-As.

New issuance was heavy, with many companies coming to market to take advantage while rates remain low, which given recent economic data may not be for as long as economists had been predicting.

John Milne, president and cfo of United Rentals, on the lead banks for the company's refinanced credit facility.