Blight of the living dead:
SPEAKING AT A Loan Market Association (LMA) conference in October, Ian Cash, head of Alchemy Partners’ £300 million ($509 million) Special Opportunities Fund, drew an alarmed gasp from an already rather anxious audience by revealing that his five-year expectation is for default rates in the European high yield market to rise to an eye-watering 50%. This prediction is doubly startling considering the figures involved. According to Fitch Ratings, €145 billion B-rated corporate debt is due to refinance in Europe by 2016, €86 billion of which is highly leveraged, pre-crunch LBO debt.
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