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Fixed Income Boutique
Fixed Income Quarterly
Each quarter, our experts from the Fixed Income Boutique deliver actionable insights to help you make sense of the global fixed income universe. They uncover key risks, opportunities, and trends.
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Flash Fixed Income
Taking inspiration from the “flash” economic indicators that offer markets a preview of the final numbers, Flash Fixed Income is a monthly outlook that keeps investors ahead of the curve by dissecting the major trends across the global bond markets.
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Are markets pricing in the threat to Fed independence?
The next few days could be pivotal to any concerns around the independence of the US Federal Reserve (Fed).
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Asset-backed finance: How does Europe stack up?
The $5.2tr asset-backed finance (ABF) market represents a growing opportunity to gain exposure to high quality loan pools and the returns they can generate.
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Improving growth forecasts matter for markets
On Thursday, markets received preliminary Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) figures for August. As a reminder, PMIs are timely indicators of trends in manufacturing and services, with a number above 50 signalling an expansion and below 50 a contraction.
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Allianz’s blockbuster RT1 underpinned by insurance fundamentals
Restricted Tier 1 (RT1) investors have been woken from an otherwise sleepy summer after Allianz Group, one of the largest insurers and asset managers globally, brought a $1.25bn deal to the market on Tuesday.
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Aggressive high yield deals call for heightened vigilance
Urbaser, a Spanish waste management specialist, came to the market last week with a controversial new deal. The company launched a €1bn payment-in-kind (PIK) toggle note to fund a dividend to its owner Platinum Equity, just six weeks after it issued a new €2.3bn debt package to refinance its existing debt and fund a further €1bn of dividends.
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A closer look at River Green and CMBS losses
A French CMBS transaction named River Green – a deal we exited a few years ago at a price in the mid-90s as part of a broader review of our CMBS exposure – has come under renewed scrutiny after a new valuation triggered expectations of principal losses on what were originally AAA rated bonds. Here’s how we got here.
