We recently published an in-depth note on the high yield market which you can access here. In it we consider some of the issues facing investors in the era of negative real interest rates and financial repression and how high…
Tag Archives: high yield
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European High Yield vs. Eurozone Tail Risk High Yield
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- Eurozone, high yield
Posted December 22nd, 2011
As Eurozone concerns have dominated risk appetite within the market this year, a key question that faces many market participants is how to capture some of the attractive risk premiums that this weakness creates without exposing themselves unduly to the…
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In this heightened atmosphere of risk aversion, the high yield market as a whole has been far more discriminating when it comes to any poor fundamental performance from individual issuers or sectors. This has led to some large relative moves…
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European High Yield – Crossing the Value Rubicon
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- Europe, high yield
Posted October 10th, 2011
As we’ve stated earlier this year, we think the European high yield market is presenting us with some very interesting opportunities. As of 6th October, one of the high yield indices that we track had an average yield to maturity…
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Sell off in high yield markets provides a buying opportunity
- Topics
- high yield
Posted August 16th, 2011
The price action in the high yield market has been brutal over the last few weeks. A very respectable year-to-date return of 3.8% as at end of June currently stands at -1.3% (according to the Merrill Lynch European Currency HY…
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Over the weekend Ardagh Glass announced a transformative acquisition of another well known packaging name in Impress Cooperative U.A (see here). The deal left me with mixed emotions and came as something of a surprise because an IPO had been…
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Fixed interest markets performance review year to date – some interesting results
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- corporate bonds, interest rates, UK
Posted July 19th, 2010
We have now passed the halfway mark of 2010 and we thought it would be interesting to put together some figures to show how various bond indices have performed year-to-date (as at July 13). BofA Merrill Lynch provide an excellent…
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I thought it would be useful to explain the key positions in the new M&G Optimal Income Fund and how I am making use of the “wider powers”, so that readers can get a better understanding of my strategy for…
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One of the latest fixed income innovations are CPDOs, which stands for “Constant Proportion Debt Obligation” – a bit of a mouthful I know. These new products are causing a stir because credit rating agencies such as Moody’s and Fitch…
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