credit

An environment of tightening conditions and slowing earnings growth is creating some fascinating quandaries for investors.

This week’s charts begin with a visualisation of how the biggest stocks, mostly tech, have driven the S&P 500’s recent gains.

An exploration of Private Debt vs Listed Fixed Income

Some cheeses have holes in them, some do not. There are also many varieties of hybrids, some of these also have holes in them.

Considering a valuation model for fixed income total returns, helping investors better understand their defensive allocation.

BondAdviser's John Likos writes about why a hard landing is more likely than any other scenario - and how the bond traders are playing it.

KKR's Jeremiah Lane shares insights from what we've seen so far in the credit markets, and what may be to come.

The 24th Prime Minister of Australia and the 2023 bond market may not have a lot in common at first glance.

Like any good millennial, I have seen my fair share of zombie movies and television shows. Take The Walking Dead for instance, in which the world is brought down by a...

After a good 13-year bull run for global equities markets, the party has stalled - even if only temporarily - as higher rates take a hit on the sky-high valuations....

The docile bond market of the past 20+ years is gone. As many professional managers, allocators and advisors have been burned this past year, we expected...

On December 15 last year, the US Federal Reserve expected its near-zero cash rate (known as the Federal funds rate) to rise only modestly to 0.9 per cent by the end...

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts that I handpicked from around the web and from Twitter posts. The purpose of this wire is to add extra...

One of the interrelationships often utilised by investors in more credit heavy portfolios is that interest rates will provide a level of protection against ‘risk off...

The '90s were a golden period for distressed debt investors in the US, with big names such as Oaktree Capital and Elliot Management being forged during this firesale....

Bank traders have frequently reported AA to AAA rated State government bonds (or semis) have been increasingly behaving like a "safe-haven" asset as the spreads they...

The market is projecting the Australian cash rate to rise to 1.20% by the end of the year, this implies that the RBA hikes 4.5 times on current numbers. Interestingly,...

In 2022 we expect volatility to increase as a function of central bank liquidity draining from the system. In parallel, we expect inflation to remain persistent, as we...

In a world of low, some would say subterranean, interest rates, the CIPAM Credit Income Fund has been designed to exploit the opportunities in both public and...

The concept of diversified portfolios was first popularised by Harry Markowitz’s 1952 “Modern Portfolio Theory”, which outlined the basic tenets of how risk-adjusted...