Top section
Top section
The era of pure-play private equity is over. Banks are pulling different divisions together to serve the complex needs of global asset managers
Specialist moves after 18 years in the market
New dangers are making deals harder to do, but pricing for the haves is still tight
More articles
More articles
More articles
-
Outstanding bonds issued by supermarket Casino Guichard-Perrachon, and three construction credits, Astaldi, CMC Ravenna and Aldesa, were in the spotlight this week, after dropping to their lowest price yet in September. -
US department store Neiman Marcus’s unsecured bonds and term loan have dipped in trading this week after the company said it was moving its fastest growing online business, MyTheresa, out of the reach of lenders.
-
Four Chinese high yield issuers sealed bonds on Wednesday, when a total of nine deals were priced in the primary market in Asia ex-Japan, making it the busiest day in the region in months.
-
US investors have scrambled for the bonds and loans backing leveraged buyouts of Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business and Dutch chemical company AkzoNobel, with pricing coming tighter than initial thoughts despite aggressive covenant packages.
-
Scott Snell, former co-head of BlackRock’s US CLO business, has joined Tetragon Credit Income (TCIP) as a CLO portfolio manager, with the firm planning to expand the range of its investments in CLOs.
-
According to a report by asset manager BlackRock, global exchange traded products saw a consistent inflow into fixed income funds in the first eight months of 2018. Within fixed income products, investment grade corporate bonds saw equally consistent flows, while high yield corporate bonds saw two consecutive months of inflows after six months of outflows. The inflows extend to high yield markets too, which is doing nothing to aid the fight against looser covenants.
Sub-sections
shared comment list
