UBS Wonders If High Yield Bond Offerings Have Reached "Capacity"

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Mark Melin
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In a yield starved market environment, when benchmark government bonds yield close to zero for the first time in history, a UBS report wonders if debt markets are approaching capacity? What the report does not address to any significant degree is that supply and demand in a free market adjusts yield to accommodate for debt market capacity. In search of revenue expansion to support the never ending demand for high stock prices, firms engaged in financial engineering Firms are increasingly engaging in financial engineering, releveraging balance sheets and engaging in merger and acquisition gymnastics and corporate share repurchase strategies, all…

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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.