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Billion-dollar Adams Street CLO is private deal for single investor
6 days ago
New details have emerged of the unusual billion-dollar middle market “CLO” that Adams Street Partners closed last week -
Greensledge arranges new private credit CFO
4 months ago
Churchill Asset Management, an investment-specialist affiliate of Nuveen, announced on Monday it had closed its second collateralised fund obligation, or CFO -
Credit investors find bright spots in gloomy outlook: Credit Rendezvous Q4 2022
1 year ago
Clouds are looming over financial markets as the fourth quarter begins — so investors are moving away from diversified approaches in favour of tailored investments and relative value plays -
Oaktree identifies CLOs among top picks in credit
1 year ago
Oaktree Capital Management’s head of performing credit Armen Panossian has outlined CLO tranches among his three favoured investments in this market -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
1 year ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
Credit Rendezvous: Pass masters
1 year ago
Most often, a credit market downturn has its roots mired in one big, blatant obstacle that credit managers have to focus their attention to overcome. But right now, it’s not the dominant risk factor that has to be defeated, it’s the sheer number of them... -
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 -
"Never have the choices for issuers been more varied, nor the market dynamics more complex"
2 years ago
Direct lending deal terms are becoming more attractive in Europe -
"It’s not unusual for investors to toggle between the US and Europe depending on pricing and terms"
2 years ago
The accents may be different, but US and European direct lending markets have a lot in common -
Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
2 years ago
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives. -
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 -
It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
3 years ago
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter -
Direct lenders say coronavirus storm enables them to show benefits of bespoke lending
3 years ago
European credit managers are bracing themselves for setbacks after a new set of lockdown and curfew measures kicked off 2021 on the continent -
Credit Rendezvous: heading for homes
3 years ago
Fund managers in structured credit, real assets and distressed are bullish on the prospects for residential housing in 2021. Elsewhere, niche royalty-based strategies are in favour and although a CLO repricing wave is expected, it may not be easy to execute resets. For more, read our 13-page quarterly report on credit. -
Direct Lending Perspectives: deal flow slumps to €2.5 billion in Q1
3 years ago
European direct lending deal volumes slipped to €2.49 billion in the first quarter, according to the latest European Direct Lending Perspectives report -
Direct lenders eye 200bp premium in primary market
3 years ago
Deal flow is streaming in for European direct lenders who, despite monitoring portfolios for covid-19 related issues, have one eye on the primary market -
SME CLO features PDL mechanism
4 years ago
Details of the groundbreaking Alhambra SME Funding 2019-1 — the first 2.0 CLO backed by loans to small and midsized enterprises — were revealed at the Direct Lending Forum jointly hosted by Creditflux and Debtwire last month. -
Fund perfomance: Slowdown for some as pandemic takes hold
A round-up of fund performance4 years ago -
Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
EIB buys mezzanine tranche in Commerzbank SRT
4 years ago
Commerzbank has launched a €1.5 billion significant risk transfer with the European Investment Bank (EIB) announcing that it has invested in the mezzanine tranche of the securitisation -
Fund performance: Presents under the tree as CLO funds perform
A round-up of fund performance4 years ago -
Fund performance: Long-short funds rule in October as CLO funds struggle
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
US buyers take punt on Europe's first 2.0 SME CLO
4 years ago
Investors in Be-Spoke Capital’s Alhambra SME Funding 2019-1 are mostly European asset managers, but some banks and US-based institutions also invested in the precedent setting transaction -
SME CLOs arrive in Europe as Be-Spoke prices Spanish loan securitisation
4 years ago
Middle market CLOs have arrived in Europe after Be-Spoke Capital priced the continent’s first post-crisis SME loan securitisation -
Fund performance
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance click here.
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