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Credit pickers need luck to avoid OC trap
3 years ago
We know what you’re thinking: is my CLO failing its OC test? The truth is, in all this volatility, it can be hard to keep track, unless your deal has high quality liquid loans
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Credit hedge fund returns: March 2020 stats
3 years ago
Monthly performance across credit hedge funds -
Fund performance: Index tranche investors make it work from home
3 years ago
March brought a drastic drop in return figures as covid-19 swept across the globe, as Orchard tops the Creditflux performance tables -
Ucits at a glance: Long-short credit capitalises on coronavirus
3 years ago
Ucits funds were not spared from the crash in mid-March, but Pictet outperforms -
Credit funds at a glance (May 2020)
3 years ago
A round-up of fundraising and people moves -
We’ve survived before, we can do so again
$7.8 billion of CLO collateral, split evenly between the US and Europe, is in the loans that have fallen fastest in the past month. But short term CLO pain will bring opportunities for building par4 years ago -
A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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Ucits at a glance: Long-short approach lifts Pictet to the top
A round-up of ucits fund performance4 years ago -
Fund perfomance: Slowdown for some as pandemic takes hold
A round-up of fund performance4 years ago -
Dispersion tests hedge fund managers
Credit hedge funds with the ability to go long and short the market were the top performers last year. But dispersion made it possible for fund managers to eke out value across many sectors4 years ago -
CLO managers don’t always prioritise profits
Research into CLO trading by professors Florin Vasvari and Maria Loumioti leads them to believe that, when CLOs are bound by strict constraints, managers tend to focus on ‘compliance trading’4 years ago -
Credit funds at a glance
4 years ago
A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
Ucits at a glance: Ucits start year on high note
4 years ago
A round-up of ucits fund performance -
Fund performance: Presents under the tree as CLO funds perform
A round-up of fund performance4 years ago -
Ucits at a glance: Ucits end strong year on a high
A round-up of ucits fund performance4 years ago -
A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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Attack is the best form of defence
4 years ago
Yes, idiosyncratic risks are creeping into corporate credit. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Summit were convinced that the most creative firms will be able to thrive without taking on additional risk -
Deluxe decline leaves CLOs feeling deflated
4 years ago
Deluxe looked decent: trading in the 90s for much of this year, with 60% of its term loan sitting in CLO portfolios. But its rapid descent underlines the dangers posed by idiosyncratic events. -
Fund performance: Long-short funds rule in October as CLO funds struggle
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
CLOs at a glance: innovations arrive as year draws to close
A round-up of CLO performance4 years ago -
A new generation of AI tools is helping CLO managers optimise their portfolio selection and trading strategies. Sky Road has made great strides in this area by creating a tool which helps identify trades4 years ago
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CBOs aren’t fixated on interest rate moves
The loan sell off at the start of this year highlighted that CBOs are not a play on interest rates or bond prices — they’re taking advantage of the flexibility to rotate between loans and bonds.4 years ago -
We didn’t take full advantage of volatility
The Creditflux CLO Census found that CLO arrangers and investors were more bullish than managers, who accepted they could have done more to capitalise on loan volatility late last year4 years ago -
European corporate loans can fit into various fund types and this year there has been an increase in managed accounts targeting these assets. But CLOs are still the best structures to house loans4 years ago
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