Bain Sees Software Debt Defaults Spiking

Fear of software defaults amid AI disruption creates opportunity for high-yield debt buyers, according to Capital Group, which has $3.2 trillion under management. “Markets are adopting a bit of a shoot first ask questions later strategy when it comes to software,” said Shannon Wa ...  Show more

Systematic credit investing has room to expand into leveraged loans, structured finance and emerging markets, according to Acadian Asset Management. “You could take an issuer approach to do security selection in the leveraged loan market,” Scott Richardson, the $178 billion firm’ ...  Show more

SPACs - special-purpose acquisition companies - are the latest rage in finance. They are firms designed to help another go public by going around the traditional IPO process to raise funding, and The Wall Street Journal estimates that so far this year, five new SPACs are forme ...

After a turbulent couple of months with significant spread widening and subsequent tightening, corporate bonds may remain under threat through year-end. In this episode of Inside Active, Bloomberg Intelligence’s mutual fund and active management analyst David Cohne and corporate ...  Show more

Financial stocks could see better earnings growth this quarter than analysts’ consensus, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s macro model. In this episode of the Inside Active podcast, host David Cohne, BI mutual fund and active management analyst, along with co-host Gina Martin ...  Show more

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Semiconductor Analyst Kunjan Sobhani explains the issues with Nvidia's expensive valuation. Bloomberg News Economics Editor Molly Smith and Bloomberg Intelligence Chief US Interest ...  Show more