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...And with Red Team Blues, the first in a series featuring forensic accountant Marty Hench, it feels like the world has finally caught up with him....
...Marty Chavez, former head of the bank’s securities division, joined Sixth Street in 2021....
...Yes, there is recession risk involved, but investors are compensated for it and can hunt for quality companies in unpopular cyclical industries....
...The hunt for higher-yielding assets to generate better returns has sent even triple C rated bond yields to an all-time low of just above 7 per cent this month....
...The hunt for yield and the need for bond managers to beat their benchmarks is the driver here....
...Marty pinpoints the hunt for yield by investment managers as a “likely cause of the present, nearly unprecedented gap between the high-yield market’s actual and required spreads”....
...And Softbank’s Vision Fund has gone a bit Marty Feldman. Reader, what are we missing? Tell us below....
...This is a story with a rape, a calamitous fox hunt, a family punch-up and, everywhere, personal relationships fit to burst. A dose of Puccini’s theatrical killer instinct would not go amiss....
...“If you run a bond fund going into cash is not an option,” says Marty Fridson, chief investment officer of Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors. “That’s not an option or the mandate....
...The work was written — for cinema — at the height of the playwright’s powers in 1950 and just as Miller began to square up to the forces that plunged America into an era of anti-communist witch-hunts....
...Marty Lipton, a rival Wall Street lawyer, remembers an “absolutely formidable” opponent. Outside the boardroom, too, Pirie was acquisitive....
...“The volatility in the market enabled us to hunt for selective BB rated bonds that traded down as much or even more than single Bs,” said O’Reilly, who helps manage USD 7bn of high yield bonds at Neuberger...
...Marty Sullivan of Tax Analysts, a US non-profit group, also thinks the two Channel islands will survive, adding: “They have done a pretty good job.” But many of the more peripheral havens will not....
...Even so, automotive suppliers face hurdles in their hunt for customers in other sectors....
...Others are preparing to lead Marine rifle platoons that will hunt the enemy in the mountains of Afghanistan and the streets of Iraqi cities....
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