Oil’s Price Decline and its Impact on the High Yield Market

By Peter M. Lupoff,  Chief Investment Officer of Tiburon Capital Management, LLC   Existing angst about deteriorating credit quality, low absolute yields and increasingly lax covenants has been reinforced by fresh worries about the proximity of Federal Reserve rate hikes and the impact of last year’s dramatic decline in oil. The fact that energy and […] Read more »

Stakes In Hedge Fund Businesses In Demand As Blackstone Declares An Interest

By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight Once in a week is random, twice in a couple of weeks is a potential pattern, but three times in a month is confirmation. The first occurence was the sales of stake in insurance risk manager Nephilia Capital.  Kohlberg Kravis Roberts acquired a 24.9% ownership in the […] Read more »