As others head for the exit from the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, Benefit Street Partners President Richard Byrne views this as the perfect time to fill the funding void that could arise. Byrne joins hosts Noel Hebert and Sam Geier of Bloomberg Intelligence on Credit Crunch to discuss the budding opportunity in CRE as a result of higher interest rate ... Show More
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Credit Crunch: Lazard’s Whittaker, Howard on EU Stress, Advisory
“There’s no binary differentiation between capital solutions and restructuring anymore,” says Lazard’s co-head of Europe Restructuring and Liability Management, Sam Whittaker, when discussing the continuum of solutions available to debtors under stress. Whittaker and Lazard’s co- ... Show More
59m 55s
Jan 30
Credit Crunch: Beach Point’s Hunsaker on Structured Landscape
“We’ll risk-manage the portfolios such that, when beta is an uncompelling opportunity set, we have more risk-management overlays in place. And luckily, where we are today with the short rebate that you get paid to borrow and short bonds, it’s not that much of an opportunity cost, ... Show More
53m 54s
Jan 29
Macro Matters: Morgan Stanley’s Hornbach on Dollar, Yield Curve
A currency is like the equity of a country, so the dollar’s recent decline is akin to a drop in the stock of the US, says Morgan Stanley Global Head of Macro Strategy Matt Hornbach. He joins this edition of Macro Matters, part of the FICC Focus podcast series with co-hosts Ira Je ... Show More
27m 4s
Oct 2025
CLOs Are Tough to Blow Up, Crescent Says
Collateralized loan obligations, particularly those backed by middle-market borrowers, are a growing opportunity for investors, according to Crescent Capital Group. “You have to work really hard to blow those structures up,” said John Fekete, the company’s head of tradeable credi ... Show More
44m 33s
Nov 6
DoubleLine Is Ringing Alarm Bells on the AI Debt Funding Bonanza
Credit investors should be careful about participating in the artificial intelligence boom, according to DoubleLine Capital. “You have to be not only cautious about the tech sector, but the tangential related sectors that are providing support for these new projects,” Robert Cohe ... Show More
45m 22s
Nov 12
Why UK Small Caps Could Soar — Rockwood’s Richard Staveley on Value, Catalysts & Momentum
Merryn Somerset Webb sits down with Richard Staveley, manager of the Rockwood Strategic, to unpack why UK smaller companies are so unloved—and why that may be a big opportunity. Richard explains Rockwood’s playbook: concentrated, benchmark-agnostic, value investing with hands-on ... Show More
39 m
Oct 2024
The biggest opportunities in US credit markets
This could be a good time to buy lower-rated debt, says Lotfi Karoui, chief credit strategist in Goldman Sachs Research. He discusses the Fed path, the economic backdrop, and credit supply dynamics with Chris Hussey.
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8m 33s
Sep 2024
Talking Heads - Emerging market debt: Further to go after a strong run
Emerging market debt has had a strong run since the start of 2024 with positive performance across the universe of sovereign issuers. Listen to this Talking Heads podcast with Alaa Bushehri, Head of Emerging Market Debt at BNP Paribas Asset Management, and Andrew Craig, Co-head o ... Show More
8m 47s
Aug 2025
Talking Heads – Setting a course for investing in the rest of 2025
With the second half of the year now well underway, what are the prospects for the major economies and financial markets as tariffs remain very much in the headlines? On our podcast, Chief Market Strategist Daniel Morris tells Andrew Craig, Co-head of the Investment Insight Centr ... Show More
8m 59s