ARDC News and Press, Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Inc. From 06/29/20

I will confess right up front that I have no idea which way the economy or the markets are going to go in the next few months or in 2021. Obviously there are a lot of optimists who believe that a combination of aggressive actions by the Fed, a resilient corporate America committed to muddling ...

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Rick Rieder, Russ Brownback and Trevor Slaven contend that in the tug-of-war between the considerable economic damage stemming from the coronavirus and subsequent lockdowns, and the fiscal and monetary policy responses put in place, the latter factor is being underestimated by markets. Furthe...

Junk issuers have sold $46.7B of bonds so far in June, topping the previous monthly record of $46.4B in September 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg . More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, BlackRock Corporate H...

The lack of issuance and supply over the last almost year or so, that's what makes the TIC data so fascinating. And relevant, if for other reasons, too. CLO issuance, according to a bunch of sources, peaked back last June. Remember that whole "recession scare" with the yield curve last summer?...

Billionaire investor and GMO co-founder Jeremy Grantham is growing more and more sure that the U.S. stock market's rebound amid the coronavirus pandemic is a bubble that will end up hurting many people. "My confidence is rising quite rapidly that this is the fourth 'Real McCoy' bubble of my...

(This report was issued to members of Yield Hunting on Sunday, June 14, 2020. We issue similar commentary every Sunday night) Macro Picture Volatility returned this week in a big way with the Dow recording one of its largest point declines ever. The renewed fears of a second wave of coro...

So much of the mainstream financial media focuses on the stock market, and yet the corporate bond markets, and that would include securitized product and even municipal bonds, have (in my opinion) a huge information vacuum for the smaller advisor or individual investor. The corporate bond ma...

There's one big question on every investor’s mind. Are we entering a new bull market, or is the recent market recovery simply a bear trap? Obviously, there's a serious concern about the second wave of coronavirus and resulting shutdowns, which may or may not come, but does cause a lot...