9 Mar 2021 TwentyFour Blog Why TIPS Aren’t as Generous as They Seem In a developed country such as the US, a scenario of rising inflation expectations is usually accompanied by a bear steepening across maturities of the underlying yield curve. Read more
8 Mar 2021 TwentyFour Blog Fed Not Playing Backstop for Treasury Yields Our year-end forecast of 1.50% for the 10-year is already looking very out of date, and it would be a brave person right now to suggest that 2% won’t be touched any time this year as the recovery gets into full flow with the Fed holding its tongue. Read more
4 Mar 2021 TwentyFour Blog Securitisation Written Out of UKAR Success Last week UK Asset Resolution (UKAR) announced the sale of its final mortgage loan portfolios, bringing to a close a decade long chapter of state ownership. Read more
2 Mar 2021 TwentyFour Blog US Yield Curve Set To Continue Underperforming In summary things are going quite well, and in this scenario a rise in government bond yields does not necessarily bring about a tightening of financial conditions. Read more
26 Feb 2021 TwentyFour Blog Comprehending The Treasury Move A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Treasuries breaking new ground and the potential for them to go higher as higher inflation expectations gathered pace. Read more
25 Feb 2021 TwentyFour Blog The UK Savings Ratio: How Far Can It Go? The Bank of England have just added to the debate about how much of the recent surge in savings will be deployed in the form of consumption as we return to ‘normality’. Read more
17 Feb 2021 TwentyFour Blog US Treasuries Hit By Inflation Expectations Our end of year view on the 10 year is 1.50, but we could get there a lot quicker - now is not the time to be brave on Treasuries. Read more
12 Feb 2021 TwentyFour Blog GBP High Yield Closing the Gap? The last few weeks has seen healthy issuance in the high yield space, including multiple billion pound deals, the most recent of which, Asda, priced on Wednesday. This was an interesting deal for a few reasons, not least because it is the largest sterling high yield deal of all time Read more
9 Feb 2021 TwentyFour Blog ESG: Looking Under the Label This deal, backed by a £472m pool of owner-occupied mortgages partially securitised in a previous transaction, drew over £1.2bn of orders and was printed 10-30bp tighter than initial price guidance depending on the tranche, reaching pre-COVID tights. Read more
5 Feb 2021 TwentyFour Blog ESG Covenants in High Yield Ultimately, the fact that the Klockner deal is not marketed as a green loan but still includes ESG-related covenants is proof that ESG needs to be integrated into an investor’s credit work as a matter of course, something we have been arguing for years. Read more
4 Feb 2021 TwentyFour Blog Time to Test The Water in CCCs? We think it is indeed time to begin the search for recovery stories and deleveraging credits in sectors where the execution strategy is likely to succeed. Read more
3 Feb 2021 TwentyFour Blog The Great CLO Refinancing is Well Underway I think it’s likely we’ll see new cycle tights for the European CLO sector this year, so in addition to healthy income we believe there is plenty of room for capital appreciation as prices are being pushed higher in the secondary market. Read more