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Points up front: A true rock star lawyer
2 years ago
When corporations proclaim they are looking to recruit ‘rock stars’ (as is common these days), this usually means they are seeking highly proficient candidates for a desk job -
Sofr spike boosts CLO debt as Europe and US go out of sync
2 years ago
The sharp rise in three-month term Sofr has caused CLO relative value to shift decisively towards primary US CLO debt tranches in January as the floating rate benchmark shot up from 9.11bp to 17.06bp (from 1-20 January) -
"Boardrooms are being hustled by activist shareholders using ESG data to drive economic value"
2 years ago
Pledges have been made and the Race to Zero has begun. Firms need to put their plans in place -
Fund performance: Wasserstein's early 2021 performance drives it to the top
2 years ago
The final top 10 of 2021 featured a variety of funds as five different strategies were ranked among the best. US high yield was the most highly represented with two BlackRock funds and an Angel Oak in the top 10 -
Ucits at a glance: Robus claims top spot in 2021 after tight race
2 years ago
Ucits funds have ended 2021 on a high as 62% made positive returns in December -
Barclays seeks head of SRT risk
2 years ago
Barclays is looking to hire a head of SRT risk for its wholesale credit portfolio, having established a credit risk transfer programme under the Colonnade branding -
Broad sell-off as market moves to price five or more Fed hikes
2 years ago
Financial market sentiment has taken another dive in the wake of the US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, with many taking Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s comment that “this cycle is different from the previous one” to mean a steeper tightening than previously thought -
Credit Rendezvous: the upside of inflation
2 years ago
It is clear, inflation is not transitory and central banks are acting with several interest rate hikes likely in store for the US this year. That makes loans and CLO debt tranches attractive, but there could be opportunities beyond these floating rate assets -
Gapstow expects strategic deals as credit manager M&A volume slumps to $120 billion
2 years ago
M&A volume involving credit asset managers dropped last year with total target value assets under management slumping to $120 billion from $149 billion in 2020 (and $254 billion in 2019), according to Gapstow Capital Partners -
Värde promotes three credit specialists to partner
2 years ago
Värde Partners has promoted Jim Dunbar, Aneek Mamik and Carlos Sanz Esteve to partner -
Investors take nuanced approach to ESG as they move on from negative screening: Elfa
2 years ago
European bond and loan investors have evolved their ESG investment frameworks with 86% saying that they integrate ESG factors 'systematically and explicitly' in their investment process -
RBC hires head of European loan trading from NatWest
2 years ago
RBC Capital Markets has built out its leveraged finance and financial sponsors banking business in Europe to capture “the shift of capital from the public to the private realm and win mandates on increasingly larger, marquee transactions” -
A fresh approach to loss distribution
2 years ago
Considering how cash balances change over time, loss distribution models can look very different to conventional thinking. So is your CLO’s pricing based on incorrect assumptions? -
Banks and loans to benefit in 2022 as safe havens dwindle
2 years ago
Safe havens and sector pitfalls are among some of the top considerations for portfolio managers this year, as a consensus forms that credit could suffer versus other asset classes -
Credit hedge funds (January 2022)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: Robus and Altana dip but stay at the top
2 years ago
In October, Ucits funds continued a slide that had begun the previous month with 60% of them in the red -
Credit funds at a glance (January 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
CLOs prove resistant to omicron in boost for new issue market
2 years ago
The CLO market has withstood the impact of the omicron coronavirus variant with barely a dent on CLO liability pricing -
"In 2022, being slow will not be such a bad thing"
2 years ago
St David losing its place as the UK’s smallest city would be a travesty. Replacing Libor might be worse -
Citi's former European CLO head earns promotion to MD
2 years ago
A long-time European CLO specialist is among the 306 promoted to managing director at Citi, according to reports -
Lev loan index rule change proposed to meet Sofr switch
2 years ago
Leveraged loan index stakeholders are being asked for feedback on a proposal that would allow the inclusion of loans linked to Sofr and scrap a minimum spread rule -
Firm claims to cut loan settlement times with blockchain based securitisation
2 years ago
Cadeia, a German technology firm, claims to have undertaken the first ever fully blockchain based corporate loan securitisation transaction -
Axa IM raises €1.2 billion for SRTs
2 years ago
Axa Investment Managers has closed Partner Capital Solutions VIII, a significant risk transfer (SRT) strategy, at roughly €1.2 billion, according to an announcement. -
CLO lower cap stack will outperform with $175bn new issuance in 2022: JP Morgan
2 years ago
Equity and lower rated tranche investors will do best as $175 billion of global new CLO issuance arrives in 2022, predict JP Morgan strategists in their annual outlook, taking market size to $1.2 trillion -
NatWest hires head of Emea leveraged credit sales
2 years ago
NatWest has tapped Nomura for a head of leveraged credit sales position after its head of credit sales left for Jefferies in September
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