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Liquidity and correlation in the Chinese credit marketChina’s stock market has drawn huge attention from global investors, especially as China A shares have been added to leading equity indexes. But the same cannot be said for the country’s 38 trillion CNY (USD 5.5 trillion) credit market, now the second-largest in the world. Despite the market’s overall size, foreign investor participation remains miniscule, with overseas bondholders accounting for less than 1% of the total holdings.
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Reverse Convertibles: Worth the Risk?Do reverse convertibles offer any obvious risk-return benefits over high-yield bonds?
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Bank Loans: Will Crisis Follow the Search for Yield?In the post-2008 search for yield, investors have taken on considerable exposure to leveraged bank loans. We assess whether these loans pose systemic risk in the way subprime mortgages did during the last crisis.
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Beware of FRTB Cliff Effects. Sharp Curvatures Ahead.The Basel committee’s revised market-risk capital requirements contain a small surprise with potentially big implications. Cliff effects remain in the framework.
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European securitization at the regulatory crossroadsHave new European Union reforms clouded the future of the securitization market in Europe?
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Fed policy, the credit cycle and real estateAmid the uncertainty over Federal Reserve policy, investors in commercial real estate (CRE) are confronting asset-allocation challenges and growing concerns about CRE valuation and debt levels, after an extended period of easy credit.
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What could stress emerging markets?Emerging-market equities and USD-denominated EM sovereign bonds started 2019 with a bang, but recent market turbulence caused by the U.S.-China trade standoff raises a pressing question: What could trigger the next EM downturn?
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Are You Ready for Uniform MBS? (Part 2)Aligning prepayment speeds of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities presents a major challenge to the success of uniform mortgage-backed securities (UMBS), which the two government-sponsored enterprises will launch on June 3.
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A More politicized Fed? The Market YawnsCould the Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) become less independent, with political forces exerting more influence?
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Need a Lyft? Why the IPO Blew a TireA week into the highly publicized IPO for Lyft Inc., the ride-sharing company, it’s hard to say it went exactly as planned.