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Quick! Avaya has ignited and $1 billion of CLO assets are at risk
1 year ago
Sparks are flying in the leveraged loan and high yield market after communications company Avaya Holdings slashed its forecasted earnings mere weeks after syndicating new debt. The rapid decline of Avaya's debt has left CLO managers little time to avoid the blaze -
Market sentiment shifts as investors turn bullish on loans and CLOs
1 year ago
CLO market sentiment has shifted decisively in recent weeks with investors expressing more optimism than earlier in the year -
S&P revises US CLO stress tests to include recession-based scenarios
1 year ago
Standard and Poor’s has published revised stress test scenarios on the US broadly syndicated loan CLO market in light of increasingly negative market sentiment -
Short duration CLOs are putting reset risk in the post: Barclays
1 year ago
The CLO market’s recent trend of shorter duration issuance could be setting up a problem for managers down the line that will impact their equity returns, Barclays has warned -
Lenders fume over Avaya ebitda miss weeks after issuing loans
1 year ago
Avaya’s lenders are considering legal options after the company slashed its ebitda projections just a few weeks after issuing a $350 million term loan paying Sofr plus 1,000 basis points -
Credit funds at a glance (August 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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Ucits at a glance: Ucits see red in a tough June for returns
1 year ago
June marked an exceptionally tough month for Ucits funds, as none of those listed in the Creditflux database made it into the black -
Credit hedge funds (August 2022)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Fund performance: Select funds shine in dreary June for credit hedge funds
1 year ago
Credit funds suffered through June, as only 8% of listed funds reached the black. This made June the fourth month in a row in which negative returns increased -
Pattern of loan sell-off implies widespread uncertainty
1 year ago
A quirk to the June loan dip was that industries and rating bands sold off in parallel -
We can cope with downgrades again
Having overcome one loan downgrade wave in 2020, the CLO market is now facing another. But this time CLOs are defensively positioned, and managers have a chance to adjust portfolios1 year ago -
CLO market mood sours amid bitter economic outlook
CLO market participants are privately discussing their concerns regarding the medium-term future of the loan market as the prospects of a prolonged economic downturn mount
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US manager launches CLO and loan funds with $150 million seed capital
1 year ago
A Dallas-headquartered manager has secured $150 million in anchor commitments for a new US CLO fund and leveraged loan fund -
Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
1 year ago
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions -
"The CLO that started the wave of prints and sprints paid near 20bp more than the market average"
1 year ago
It is possible to hit a home run with a print and sprint CLO, but execution is difficult -
FinDox steps in on climate disclosure reporting for CLOs
1 year ago
FinDox has become involved in reporting on carbon data for climate-related financial disclosure regulations, having been mandated by leading CLO managers to source relevant ESG key performance indicators -
Beneath the triple C: ebbs and flows leave triple C levels at a temporary stasis
1 year ago
Following a rising tide of downgrades in May the loan market stabilised somewhat in June, with seven issuers held by CLOs downgraded to triple C and a counter-swell of five names upgraded to single B. -
CLO managers try loan restructuring provision
1 year ago
European CLO managers have taken advantage of new loss mitigation language in deals for the first time, after Schur Flexibles announced a restructuring last month -
Fund performance: Rocky May piles on the misery for credit hedge funds
1 year ago
Negative fund performance soared in May -
Credit hedge funds (July 2022)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: LBBW shines as Ucits take a turn for the worse
1 year ago
Ucits fund returns -
Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Seeds sewn for carbon credit market to flower into CLOs
1 year ago
Long-time structured credit specialist Jan Phillip Wassenaar has joined start-up NatureCredits as a senior advisor to support the evolving carbon credit industry -
European CLO managers wait for stability as loans slide
1 year ago
European loan prices have dipped into the high 80s, as Creditflux goes to press, which should create an attractive entry point for loan buyers. But, in reality, the bid for these assets has not been strong, particularly from CLOs amid fears loans could slump further still -
Past returns: Ramp-up failings
1 year ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported that CLO investors were fed up with misleading model portfolios.
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