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"Don’t buy loans for the floating rate component alone"
2 years ago
Loomis Sayles' Matt Eagan takes our credit quiz -
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 -
Lighten up, these are due an upgrade
2 years ago
CLO triple C buckets were overflowing last year, but the average exposure is now 7.3%. That is still close to trigger levels, but CLO managers are relaxed, as further loan upgrades are on the horizon -
CLOs bask in 'golden period' as industry approaches $1 trillion market cap
2 years ago
The economic rebound following the reopening US economy has created a 'golden period' for the CLO market, market participants say -
US pension hunts for opportunistic credit manager
2 years ago
Managers have until 4pm ET on Tuesday 1st June to complete the request for proposal -
"The lack of standardised ESG data creates opportunities for data-driven investors"
3 years ago
Investors can gain an edge by using technology to help parse ESG data -
Woah, we’re halfway there
3 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 -
Past returns: Hedging is back
3 years ago
Ten years ago in Creditflux we reported that loan managers had begun hedging after loan prices stabilised back to par following the global financial crisis. These loan managers were worried about future loan slumps and began using credit options and ETFs -
"Why can’t loans and CLOs simply move to three-month treasury bills as our reference rate?"
3 years ago
Sofr may be touted as Libor’s natural replacement, but the best known rate in the world is also an option -
ESG factors show up in leveraged loan pricing in US
3 years ago
Environmental, social, and corporate governance factors are filtering through to the US CLO market and influencing loan prices -
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)
3 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: Altana moves into pole position
3 years ago
March marked a drop in pace for Ucits funds as only 62% of funds made positive returns, compared to 80% in February -
US Libor falls to record low of 17.29 basis points on 21 April
3 years ago
Three-month US Libor plunged to historic lows last month, posting at just 17.29 basis points on 21 April -
CLOs cushioned as regulators get more comfortable on Sofr
3 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
3 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 -
US pension terminates three credit mandates due to 'underperformance' and relative value
3 years ago
The New Mexico pension terminated one multi-asset credit mandate and two bank loan mandates -
Fitch lowers US loan default rates for 2021 and 2022
3 years ago
The rating agency has $200.9 billion of ‘market concern loans’ on its radar, saying these have declined in volume for the 12th month straight but are still up 16% from pre-pandemic. -
Standard Life Aberdeen 2 rbrnd 2 Abrdn
3 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 -
S&P lowers default rate forecast for US loan index
3 years ago
S&P Global Ratings has revised down its leveraged loan default rate forecast for the end of the year, based on the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index, from 3.5% to 2.75% -
Lord Abbett prepares special situations interval fund
3 years ago
Lord Abbett is preparing to launch a new special situations fund in the form of an interval fund -
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
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