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...“An immediate transition to high yield is not something that just happens overnight,” said Jon Duensing, head of corporate credit at Amundi Pioneer....
...“There’s been an overall credit-quality degradation taking place within the investment grade market,” said Jon Duensing, a senior portfolio manager with Amundi Pioneer Asset Management....
...Mr Duensing added that demand was also being driven by European high-yield accounts that had been crowded out of their market as the European Central Bank continues its bond-buying programme....
...“Right now, there is plenty of investor interest given the capital flow dynamics are very supportive, fuelling that demand for corporate bond issuance,” said Jon Duensing, director of investment grade credit...
...“All of a sudden [the provision] has taken on a different interest given the potential for what may happen out of corporate tax reform,” said Jon Duensing, deputy chief investment officer of Amundi Smith...
...“The expectation that any transaction that gets announced will have a significant debt component built into it, that says a lot about where we are right now [in the credit cycle],” says Jon Duensing, deputy...
...“There is a realisation that . . . there are not a lot of options for global investors looking for income,” said Jon Duensing, deputy chief investment officer of Amundi Smith Breeden, an asset manager....
...Jon Duensing, deputy chief investment officer of Amundi Smith Breeden, said that in recent meetings with institutional investors in Asia, income was “very much top of mind and it has been for a while for...
...“There’s less trading activity relative to the overall market size,” says Jon Duensing, deputy chief investment officer of Amundi Smith Breeden....
...“The demand is a bit of a surprise given the fact that originally investors were a little more concerned about the credit markets, particularly in January and early February,” said Jon Duensing, a portfolio...
...“The key variable to this transaction is how effective do we expect management to be,” Jon Duensing, deputy chief investment officer of Amundi Smith Breeden, said of the group’s ability to lower leverage...
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