Market Monitor

    Headline: Market Monitor Source: Euromoney magazine Date: January 2000 Edited: Peter Lee European high yield Maturing fast This year, non-investment-grade debt will be more important to European fixed-income investors than ever before. A lesson of last year was that investors have to take Europe’s M&A boom into account. Many eurozone investors lost money […]

    Headline: Market Monitor
Source: Euromoney magazine
Date: January 2000
Edited: Peter Lee

European high yield

Maturing fast

This year, non-investment-grade debt will be more important to European fixed-income investors than ever before. A lesson of last year was that investors have to take Europe’s M&A boom into account. Many eurozone investors lost money in 1999 by trying to be conservative and sticking to top credits only. Having discovered that caution doesn’t always equal prudence, the buyside is showing a new surge of interest in lower-rated credits, including high yield.








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