Nochu turns tables after experiencing CLO walkouts
Norinchukin Bank’s retreat from global CLO investing — having agreed to take down the senior notes of several upcoming CLOs — has disappointed market participants. However, although they don’t condone such actions, sources say there were mitigating circumstances

Points up front: Shhh, don’t tell! Secret CLO pricing is in progress
The CLO industry has come a long way in the last decade — so much so that managers can now boast of their track records and CLOs are no longer (wrongly) touted as the acronym that caused the 2008 financial crisis. But in recent weeks some CLO market participants seem to have gone back to a time when pricing a CLO was taboo

Points up front: CLO managers didn’t take advantage of volatility, say CLO managers
Creditflux’s CLO Census shows CLO managers can be hard on themselves

European real estate available with pruned inflation hedges
Throughout the upheaval in European credit this year, one segment of the market that has shown itself to be resilient against the pressures of inflation is real estate debt

Fund performance: Wake us up when September ends
After a resurgent August, credit markets hit a rough patch in September, with every Creditflux index posting negative returns, and only 12.9% of funds in our listings showing a positive return.

Credit hedge fund returns (November 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (November 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

CLOs at a glance (November 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Ares targets today for European CLO pricing
Ares Management is targeting today to price its new issue European CLO, Ares European CLO XVI

Asia credit rallies sharply but rest of world holds firm ahead of Fed
While most of the global financial market hangs in the balance, Asian credit has undergone a second day of relief rallying having hit the year’s peak on 31 October

Sculptor CEO Levin refutes "personal issue" accusation by ex-chief Och
Sculptor Capital Management’s independent board and the company’s chief executive officer and chief investment officer Jimmy Levin have fired back at former CEO and founder Daniel Och after he cited a “personal issue” in reference to Levin’s past

Europe leads broad rally amid speculation on softening rates timeline
After a cautious start to the week, credit markets have rallied ahead of policy decisions by the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England, amid growing investor anticipation of a slowdown in rate hikes as well as hope of a reopening Chinese economy

Franklin Templeton wraps up deal for $35bn Alcentra
Franklin Templeton has completed its acquisition of BNY Mellon’s $35 billion credit unit Alcentra

Double, double, but no toil and trouble as Neuberger and Oaktree deliver Euro CLO treats
The primary CLO market was revived yesterday after two managers brewed new European deals, taking new issue 2022 volumes to just over €22 billion

Ares markets first 2022 CLO in Europe
Ares Management is targeting Wednesday to price a new issue European CLO 

Credit faces blind spot as borrowers enter higher default cycle: BNP Paribas
With short term rates outstripping nominal GDP growth, the credit cycle is entering its next and final stage – one in which corporate defaults will pick up but high quality borrowers should outperform

CQS returns to Euro market with first new CLO since 2015
CQS has priced its first European CLO in seven and a half years, opting for a short reinvestment and non-call period

Private equity firms are becoming CLO converts: TwentyFour
Private equity firms have increasingly bought CLO and other securitised debt tranches in recent weeks instead of their usual preference for physical assets - a trade TwentyFour believes "makes perfect sense"

Creditflux CLO Census results: JP Morgan claims clean sweep of US CLO arranging categories
Following the close of this year’s census, JP Morgan was a quadruple winners in the US, with results declaring it the best at syndicating, structuring and providing both the best access to loans and the best warehouse service

Credit pivots sharply as US returns to growth and ECB confirms record hiking cycle
After a wider start, credit markets reversed course Thursday having digested a strong US GDP reading and the European Central Bank lifting its base rate by 75bp – a move that confirms this as the region’s most aggressive ever hiking cycle

Nuveen strikes deal to buy European direct lender Arcmont
Nuveen has reached an agreement to buy a controlling stake in European credit manager Arcmont Asset Management

Chicken company rallies sharply against widening market as revenues find their wings
European retail related credit is in focus on Thursday, with Boparan among the market’s big outperformers following latest earnings results

PE firm Nile buys minority stake in Prytania AM
Nile Capital Group has bought a minority stake in a structured credit specialist 

Apollo and Pimco buy ‘significant portion’ of Credit Suisse's securitised products group
The move has prompted a rally for Credit Suisse, which on Thursday unveiled a strategic review “designed to reduce risk-weighted assets and leverage exposure”

CVC markets another Euro CLO following Nochu-withdrawal
CVC Credit is wasting no time in getting back to the Euro CLO arena and marketing a full five-year reinvestment European CLO, CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XXVI. The firm had originally had originally lined up CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XXV via Citi to print first, but lost triple A anchor investor Norinchukin earlier this month