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Investment grade-rated equity tranches of collateralized debt obligations have not met expectations as tightening spreads in the fourth quarter made the deals unprofitable to issue.

Prudential Retirement in the U.S. is marketing a novel guaranteed-income structure to defined-contribution pension plan participants.

A unique collateralized bond obligation that features a portfolio of public sector finance reference obligations recently closed.

Documentation is being prepared for variance swaps in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Lehman Brothers has promoted Jonathan Kitei, managing director and senior sales representative, to head of U.S. loan sales.

Investment-grade buyers are pouring over a slew of bond deals with leveraged buyout protection already attached.

Seasons Greetings! Deutsche Bank snuggled up at its internal Christmas party last Thursday night at 230 Fifth.

The Loan Syndications and Trading Association held a small meeting last Wednesday to discuss what role it should play with regard to the total return swaps market.

The Carlyle Group has been collecting information for a debt investor database that will be operational in January.

Bear Stearns obtained lender consent to put a new $550 million green shoe provision into place for MetroPCS and concurrently draw on an existing $150 million green shoe that was priced over par for existing investors.

This chart, provided by Citigroup Global Markets, tracks bid-ask prices for par credit facilities that trade in the secondary market.

The following charts show the top five advancers and decliners in terms of % moves in the loan, bond and credit default swap markets for the previous week.