Like many markets, Corporate Credit has faced a rocky start to 2022. For investors, understanding the difference between default and duration risk will be key to positioning for the rest of the year.
Oct 2023
How Higher Interest Rates Alter Our Financial Blueprint
<p>We explore six impacts of higher interest rates on housing, capital projects, stock buybacks, excess returns for stocks, bonds, and other asset classes, and individual opportunity costs.</p><p>Topics covered include:</p><ul><li>Where current interest rates stand</li><li>Centra ... Show More
28m 38s
Apr 2024
Extra Credit: Catastrophe Bonds – A Diversifier Like No Other
In this episode of Extra Credit, Andre Rzym and Tarek Abou Zeid discuss the world of catastrophe (cat) bonds. In 2023, insured losses from natural disasters stood at an estimated $3-5 billion, insufficient to worry the cat bond market but big enough to sustain demand for reinsura ... Show More
31m 36s
Aug 2023
Corporate credit concerns
Higher interest rates are making it more expensive for companies to borrow money. So what could that mean for the health of corporate America? Saba Capital Management’s Boaz Weinstein, founder and CIO, and Goldman Sachs’ Lotfi Karoui, chief credit strategist, discuss the outlook ... Show More
22m 56s
Oct 2023
Performing Credit Quarterly 3Q2023: Tails, You Lose?
In the latest Performing Credit Quarterly, Oaktree argues that investors analyzing today’s leveraged credit markets should focus less on average risk and more on tail risk, as this segment of the market is currently much more vulnerable than usual. Armen Panossian (Head of Perfor ... Show More
41m 8s
Oct 2023
Anastasia Amoroso, Chief Investment Strategist, iCapital
<p>As Chief Investment Strategist at iCapital, a global alternatives platform, Anastasia Amoroso is responsible for helping the firm’s clients understand changes in the macro regime and how capital should be allocated in response. We start our discussion by considering the curren ... Show More
58m 1s
Oct 2023
Mortgage Bonds Blow Up; Banks Feel Regulatory Heat
<p>The $8 trillion mortgage-bond market plunged to levels rarely seen since the global financial crisis as Treasury yields surged. To analyze why and what’s next, we’re joined by Christopher Maloney, mortgage strategist at BOK Financial Capital Markets, and Bloomberg News reporte ... Show More
37m 45s
Aug 2023
Loan Defaults Outpace Bonds; Country Garden Woes
Companies with floating-rate debt are feeling the pain of higher interest costs as leveraged loan defaults outpace that of junk bonds, Bloomberg News’ Jill Shah, says. The one-year default rate for US loan borrowers has soared to 4%, an analysis by Morgan Stanley shows. Also on t ... Show More
24m 40s