Book contributions by Risk Staff
Portfolio Construction and Management
Edited by Brice Benaben and Julien Jarmoszko
Articles by Risk Staff
Market Graphic - Subprime haircuts
Matt King, global head of credit products strategy at Citigroup in London, explains how CDOs of ABS will be vulnerable to forced selling if subprime haircuts rise
Allen Sinai
The president of Decision Economics in Boston has advised five US administrations on economic policy. He tells Dalia Fahmy why he's turned more bullish on the global economy
Issuer Focus - Network Rail
Network Rail's head of corporate finance, Samantha Pitt, talks to Nikki Marmery about the company's unique historical legacy, its plans to start issuing debt from its own balance sheet and its renewed focus on index-linked bonds
Q&A - Robert Gardner
Under pressure to improve transparency, pension schemes are increasingly seeking to manage deficit/surplus volatility. The co-founder of consultancy Redington Partners in London explains how credit can play a part in that drive
Legal Spotlight
Powers extended to the new pensions regulator in the UK may make it more difficult for some merger and buyout transactions to take place. Bob Buhr explains how credit investors may stand to gain
The Big Interview - Tim Polglase
As a massive increase in covenant-lite loans sends jitters through the investor community, the head of leveraged finance at law firm Allen & Overy in London tells Nikki Marmery that cov-lite merely reflects a changing market dynamic
Enel
In our usual roundup of eye-catching deals in the credit market, we focus on Italian utility Enel's EUR5bn bond, a natural catastrophe CDO from ABN Amro, and SocGen's green CDO
