Morgan Stanley: Beware of China High Yield Debt, As Lower Leverage Is Double-Edged Sword

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Mark Melin
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With deleveraging and capital controls haunting investors, credit risk is back in focus on the Chinese onshore market. Morgan Stanley’s Kelvin Pang, in a January 18 Asian Credit Strategy note, recommends that investors switch out of the China high yield bond market and rotate into investment grade bonds in the region “before the repricing of the credit risk premium in offshore credit.” China Debt Default Looms As Growth Options Run Out .. China’s $34 Trillion Experiment Is Blowing Up – Kyle Bass Reducing corporate leverage is a double-edged sword The deleveraging of China’s onshore bond market, which has raised concerns…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.