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04 Feb 2015 Webinar: Where to from Here? 2015 Outlook for Senior Loans

Posted at 03:27h
2014 will be remembered as an eventful year for the senior loan market. Fueled by the expectation of normalizing interest rates and a firm belief in the structural advantages afforded by loans, investors are wondering what's in store for the coming year and beyond. Is it finally time to embrace a floating rate asset class?
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29 Jan 2015 Fixed Income Perspectives

Posted at 09:24h
Resolutions that promise sweeping change can be inspiring in concept but daunting to implement. But after the new year’s shaky start – characterised by a spike in equity and interest rate volatility, continued weakness in oil and commodity prices, and a strengthening dollar – the European Central Bank finally moved beyond rhetoric, revealing a concrete game plan to defeat the euro zone’s own version of “deflategate” in 2015 and beyond.
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29 Jan 2015 Fixed Income Perspectives

Posted at 04:34h

Resolutions that promise sweeping change can be inspiring in concept but daunting to implement. But after the new year’s shaky start – characterised by a spike in equity and interest rate volatility, continued weakness in oil and commodity prices, and a strengthening dollar – the European Central Bank...

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20 Jan 2015 Voya Senior Loan Group – 2014 Recap and 2015 Outlook

Posted at 04:36h
Notwithstanding a full year total return that fell short of initial expectations, the global loan market navigated 2014’s choppy waters in reasonably sound fashion. While credit fundamentals remained relatively healthy, overall investor sentiment and, in turn, average loan prices were buffeted by a series of external headwinds.
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21 Nov 2014 Voya Senior Loan – A Market Update, Fall 2014

Posted at 04:38h
From our vantage point, the senior loan market looks reasonably well situated right now, contrary, in many instances, to what we’ve been reading recently in the financial press. Senior loans (a/k/a “leveraged loans”) were one of the best performing “high income” asset classes during the September through October risk-off period, and have a long track record of providing attractive risk-adjusted returns (i.e., “Sharpe” ratios) to investors. In this short piece, we discuss a few of the key factors behind both recent loan performance and the current investment thesis. And, just maybe, deconstruct some misconceptions along the way.
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22 Jul 2014 Breakwater Advisory forms US partnership

Posted at 04:27h
Advisory and local marketing firm Breakwater Advisory has announced a partnership with US-based investment firm Voya Investment Management to open doors for asset management services for Australian institutional investors.
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20 Jul 2014 New marketing firm gets behind ex-ING Managers

Posted at 04:22h
Andreas Faeste, an experienced funds management marketer, has formed his own firm, Breakwater Advisory, and will represent in Australia the diversified former ING subsidiary in the US, the publicly listed Voya Investment Management.
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