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Lending Smart In 2018

by Richard Dakin and Dominic Smith | Mar 28, 2018 | Investor's Notebook

Comparing returns, and risk, for debt markets across Europe has historically been nigh-on impossible due to a lack of data. But new research from CBRE will help existing and new lenders determine strategy from a position of greater understanding. The data show that...

Underwriting to the downside…

by Emma Huepfl | Sep 26, 2017 | The Fund Manager

UK lending teams reconvening after the summer this autumn and scrutinizing unspent budgets will be looking warily with their credit committees at the challenge of successful deployment in Q4. Most debt investors would acknowledge that there is simply not as much...

Beware the unannounced interest rate increase

by Peter Warburton | Aug 30, 2017 | The Economist

Central banks do not set interest rates. To be specific, central banks in large western democracies with open capital markets and flexible exchange rates do not set interest rates, other than for overnight money. That’s right! If policymakers went on strike – as...

Mind the bank-shaped gap

by Emma Huepfl | Jul 6, 2017 | The Fund Manager

It is almost a decade since the beginning of the end of the debt-driven property boom. Back then, British banks supplied 72% of the finance to the market, Germans and CMBS supplied most of the remainder, and little else could compete. Anyone returning from ten years...