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IGM Credit
By Ken Jaques 08 Aug 2022
It was a busy week in the US high grade primary market this week with 17 issuers raising $45.85bln, making it the fifth busiest ex-SSA issuance week of the year. And all without a single M&A-related funding
IGM Credit
By Anil Mayre 08 Aug 2022
Moderate issuance against market headwinds and headline events Pre-placements continue to dominate sales strategies Over half of YTD RMBS pre-placed New issue share of total CLO issuance grows
IGM Credit
05 Aug 2022
In APAC USD bond sales went from bad to worse in July 2022 managing to produce just USD14.629bn of issuance (including Japan), the lowest of any month so far this year. Single currency supply in Europe more than halved m-o-m in July (-54%) as pervasive growth and inflation fears weighed on activity across all IG asset classes. The EUR IG corporate market witnessed the biggest slowdown (both absolute and percentage) and saw its weakest July in fourteen years. July Issuance volume bucked the trend in the US surpassing forecasts but was heavily dominated by the financial sector, which accounted for two-thirds of the total. Domestic FIG issuance comprised 48% (USD45.05bn) with Yankee FIGs making up another 17% (USD16.2bn) of the total volume.
Topic Industry News
EPFR - fund flow & allocations data
05 Aug 2022
EPFR-tracked Bond Funds started August by posting their biggest inflow since mid-4Q21 as investors translated mixed earnings reports and macroeconomic data into an early end to the current tightening cycle in the US.
Topic Industry News
EPFR - fund flow & allocations data
01 Aug 2022
As expected, the fourth week of July ended with the Federal Reserve hiking US interest rates by another 75 basis points.
Topic Industry News
IGM Credit
By Joy Wiltermuth 01 Aug 2022
Apple Inc., fresh off upbeat quarterly results tied to robust iPhone sales, rolled out a four-part bond deal on Monday to raise new debt.
EPFR - fund flow & allocations data
29 Jul 2022
For several years EPFR has, periodically, published an internally developed indicator to detect whether or not current conditions are consistent with previous bear markets.
Topic Industry News
EPFR - fund flow & allocations data
By Cameron Brandt 21 Jul 2022
The third week of July was a tense one for investors with a European focus, who waited for the answers to a number of thorny questions.
Topic Industry News
IGM Credit
21 Jul 2022
Despite some progress, fixed income (FI) markets still lag equity markets in terms of process automation.
EPFR - fund flow & allocations data
By Cameron Brandt 14 Jul 2022
Given the raft of unsettling news and data thrown at them during the second week of July, investors showed considerable fortitude.
Topic Industry News
IGM Credit
By Christopher Shiells and Gavin Kendrick 12 Jul 2022
The latest IGM Global Credit ESG Issuance Trends report for Q2 shows that this deal type was not immune to the market headwinds as total volumes slowed to USD158.5bn, the lowest since Q4 2020. However, ESG bond issuance as a percentage of all bond issuance recovered to 20.6%, close to the Q4 2021 peak of 21.0%.
Topic Industry News
EPFR - fund flow & allocations data
By Cameron Brandt 07 Jul 2022
Flows during the first week of the third quarter favored liquidity, with EPFR-tracked Money Market Funds recording their biggest inflow year-to-date.
Topic Industry News
IGM Credit
By Christopher Shiells 06 Jul 2022
This year is shaping up as one to forget for CEEMEA primary credit markets, as against the backdrop of the continued Russian war in Ukraine, the inflation shock/tighter CB policy and now recession risks there was no pick up in issuance levels during Q2, where the amount of bonds/sukuk dropped to just USD27.30bn (vs USD41.85bn in Q1).
Topic Industry News
IGM Credit
By David Corbell 05 Jul 2022
Issuance volumes across US, Europe and APAC have all fallen m-o-m, coinciding with a general reduction in coverage ratios and heightened NICs In fact, monthly issuance was the lowest of the year so far in US and APAC whereas Europe barely surpassed the low recorded in April
Topic Industry News
EPFR - fund flow & allocations data
By Cameron Brandt 05 Jul 2022
Investors pulled money out of all the major EPFR-tracked fund groups during the final week of June as they closed the books on a quarter that saw inflation in Europe hit record highs, energy prices soar, the US Federal Reserve deliver their biggest rate hike at a single meeting since 1994 and the benchmark S&P Index endure its worst opening half of any year since 1970.
Topic Industry News
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