A decade ago, Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities offered a withering portrait of the forces that move New York's elite and poor communities in the story of
a corporate bond trader whose fast life is derailed by an accident in the Bronx.
Prior to that, Todd was
a corporate bond trader at Dillon Read & Company, where he traded a broad range of investment - grade securities.
Not exact matches
As oil prices have fallen, defaults in the sector have risen — about a quarter of all
corporate bond defaults in 2015 were energy related, according to Moody's — and that's made
traders even more reluctant to buy.
It used the FSR to report that
traders and investors in Canada say that it is taking longer to complete trades in fixed - income markets and that larger trades that used to go through easily now must be broken up into smaller bites, especially when moving
corporate bonds.
Traders have pulled more than $ 1.8 billion from two junk - focused ETFs just in the past week: the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield
Corporate Bond -LRB-- $ 1.06 billion, most of any ETF) and the SPDR Barclays High Yield
Bond -LRB--765.4 million, the second most), while also redeeming $ 577.4 million (the fourth most) from the iShares iBoxx Investment Grade
Bond ETF, according to FactSet and ETF.com.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Mr. Haverland was a portfolio manager,
corporate bond analyst and
trader at Jefferson Pilot Financial (now part of Lincoln Financial) in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he managed $ 2.6 billion in fixed income assets.
All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and
bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration,
corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to this afternoon's Commitment of
Traders Report, followed by reports Monday on Chinese PMI, German CPI and Retail Sales, US Personal Income, Personal Spending, PCE, Chicago PMI, Pending Home Sales, and the Dallas Fed's Manufacturing Index for near term direction.
I learned that as a
corporate bond manager /
trader.
Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Loren was a
corporate bond portfolio manager and investment - grade
corporate trader at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (2010 — 2014).
I remember back in 2002 as a
corporate bond manager /
trader —
bonds were trading in «onesies» and «twosies,» though bid - ask yield spreads hadn't widened much.
For advanced
traders,
corporate bonds comprise a key component of a diversified investment portfolio.
Suppose we had seven guys in the room, an economist, a guy from a ratings agency, an actuary, a guy who does capital structure arbitrage, a derivatives
trader, A CDO manager, and a guy who does nonlinear dynamic modeling, and we asked them what the spread on a
corporate bond should be.
DeBiase was most recently a
trader in the Fixed Income division and was responsible for trading, relative value assessment, and analysis of mortgage - backed securities and
corporate bonds.