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Elfa adds to ESG fact sheet range in standardisation drive
2 years ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) will shortly publish sector-specific fact sheets for the transport and healthcare industries, sources say, bringing its total of ESG fact sheets to 12 -
Managers offer solutions for underfunded pensions
2 years ago
Credit managers are tapping UK defined benefit pensions that are battling negative cashflows -
Breakthroughs come thick and fast for Libor alternatives
2 years ago
Momentum has gathered around initiatives to replace Libor in contracts, with CME Group obtaining a regulatory nod on the term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr) as well as moving to launch interest rate futures based on banks’ short term credit yields -
"We should be mindful of the transfer of power to the C-suite that inheres in ESG"
2 years ago
As shareholder returns become one factor among many, the C-suite becomes more powerful -
Fund performance: CLO funds outperform as two hit over 100% 12-months return
2 years ago
CLO funds swatted away the competition in April on their way to dominating our top 10 credit hedge fund return table after an upbeat month -
Credit hedge funds (June 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: Altana sits atop tables as credit bounces back
2 years ago
Ucits funds picked up in April as 79% made positive returns -
Meag hires experienced credit specialist for top fixed income job
2 years ago
€328 billion asset manager Meag has appointed a head of active fixed income in Munich to oversee a range of assets including credit -
Blackstone and Credit Suisse among participants in talks for new ESG loan index
2 years ago
European leveraged loan market participants – including Blackstone and Credit Suisse – are said to be in the process of launching the ESG loan index -
CLO PM set to leave PGIM ahead of move to London-based manager
2 years ago
A London-based mid-sized CLO manager has hired an official from PGIM -
DWS and Tikehau target UK pensions with multi-strategy credit fund
2 years ago
The new fund will invest in CLOs, ABS, private debt, leveraged loans, infrastructure debt and real estate debt -
"The lack of standardised ESG data creates opportunities for data-driven investors"
2 years ago
Investors can gain an edge by using technology to help parse ESG data -
Woah, we’re halfway there
2 years ago
Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform -
Points up front: Abrdn finds text appeal
2 years ago
Marketing consultants have been working overtime to concoct new brand names, but their efforts have not been met with universal acclaim -
Points up front: The flattest term curve - work anniversary rewards
2 years ago
If you think CLO term curves are flat with a handful of basis points between three and five-year triple A CLOs, then you haven’t seen anything yet -
BofA and State Street divided over CLO convertibles
2 years ago
A split has emerged in the approach between the two big buyers of triple A-rated CLO tranches that are structured as loans -
Fund performance: Lightning strikes twice as range of credit funds deliver
What seemed like a chance occurrence in February has struck again in March, as seven categories make our top 10 best performing hedge funds -
Credit hedge funds (May 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: Altana moves into pole position
2 years ago
March marked a drop in pace for Ucits funds as only 62% of funds made positive returns, compared to 80% in February -
CLOs cushioned as regulators get more comfortable on Sofr
2 years ago
The quest to find a suitable Libor replacement looks to have taken a big step forward in recent weeks, with hopes rekindled that securitised products such as CLOs and ABS could soon make use of a term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr) -
Credit fundraising: three massive European direct lending funds notch up €17.6 bn
2 years ago
Fundraising figures continued upwards in April as just over $24 billion was raised for credit funds, alongside $3.2 worth of allocations to credit managers. Nine funds held final closes including the largest European direct lending fund raised to date -
Standard Life Aberdeen 2 rbrnd 2 Abrdn
2 years ago
Standard Life Aberdeen has announced that it is changing its name to Abrdn (pronounced Aberdeen) -
CME touts forward-looking Sofr term benchmarks
3 years ago
CME Group has begun publishing term benchmarks for the secured overnight interest rate (Sofr) as part of the global push to move away from Libor in financial markets -
Credit Rendezvous: ready and waiting
3 years ago
In Creditflux's quarterly review of credit, portfolio managers tell us that Inflation is likely to nudge higher but they are optimistic because dispersion will pick up and windows of volatility will emerge, rather than elongated phases of stress -
Beneath the triple C: CLOs benefit as upgrades make for lighter triple C buckets
3 years ago
For the first time since the sell off in March last year, downgrades to triple C have come to a near-standstill
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