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They said it: "I am extraordinarily proud of the firm I have helped build"
3 years ago
Apollo chief executive officer Leon Black announces he is stepping down. -
Points up front: A mover and Shaker
3 years ago
Veteran CLO portfolio manager Matthew Miller has stepped away from the industry after two decades to indulge in his passion for antiques crafted by the Shaker community -
Points up front: Acting credit award
3 years ago
CLO types are clearly multi-talented.... -
We need to remove CLO misinformation from the market
3 years ago
Vibrant's Kashyap Arora takes our credit quiz -
Points up front: (Direct) lending a helping hand in an emergency
3 years ago
Global lockdowns this year may have forced us to confine ourselves to our homes, but for BlackRock’s co-head of US direct lending they opened a window of opportunity -
Points up front: A6, and with good reason
3 years ago
It’s not a hedge fund if it doesn’t have some sort of reference to nature, be it hills, mountains, trees or rivers. But when Michael Fine, the former head of corporate credit at LibreMax Capital, launched his distressed debt firm in July, he resisted the urge and came up with a heart-warming reason for naming his company A6 -
They said it: "We’re going to change the world of finance"
3 years ago
Big ambitions in blockchain -
Points up front: From drafting CLO docs to writing crime thrillers
3 years ago
Nicola Bashforth, a popular figure in the CLO business, announced last month that she had left the industry to return to Lancashire in England and try her hand at writing novels -
They said it: "Imagine a garden party and all of a sudden a big wasp shows up"
3 years ago
On Creditflux’s US CLO webinar last month, Napier Park’s head of US CLO investments Serhan Secmen described the March sell-off as a garden party -
If you’re not finding black talent, you’re not trying hard enough
3 years ago
In the past few weeks, it has been easy to put up our billboards and tweet our condemnation of the treatment of black people. Now we need to change the way companies work -
Forced selling triggered by downgrades has created crossover opportunities
3 years ago
Mackay Shield's Alexandra Wilson-Elizondo takes our credit quiz -
A lot of CLO portfolios look similar and I’ve never been one to follow the herd
3 years ago
Zais's Vinnie Ingato takes our credit quiz -
"We can have a positive impact by bringing diverse thinking to our business"
4 years ago
Edwin Wilches of PGIM takes our credit quiz -
Past returns: Bond king’s exit ends CLO refis
4 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported on a market absorbing the consequences of ‘bond king’ Bill Gross leaving Pimco, the firm he co-founded. -
Points up front: Talking his book (which is available on Amazon)
4 years ago
For listed asset managers, an earnings call is generally not the right forum to market or advertise upcoming funds. But it might be exactly the right place to try and sell your book. -
Past returns: From zero to $7.6 billion in five years
4 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux we reported that Angelo Gordon was planning to move into US direct lending. Shortly after that the firm created a middle-market subsidiary known as Twin Brook Capital Partners and drafted in Trevor Clark and Chris Williams to lead the venture after the pair had left Madison Capital in 2013. -
If you can stomach volatility, CLO equity is very attractive
Brandon Cahill of BlueMountain Capital Management takes our credit quiz4 years ago -
Points up front: Loan deal with 23 takes Griezmann to Barcelona
4 years ago
Soccer financing firm 23 Capital has been adding credit experts to its team and now has a CLO specialist captaining its capital markets effort, with former Guggenheim Securities co-head of ABS/CLO syndication Sreesha Vaman joining last month. The squad already features credit portfolio managers Sam Filer (ex-BMS Finance), David O’Connor (Mizuho) and Ardeshir Sorabjee (Deutsche Bank). -
They said it: "We all suffer from the world views of millennials"
4 years ago
Headhunter Dale Shorey tells attendees at the Creditflux CLO Symposium about the difficulties of recruiting at the junior level -
Continuous par build can provide a rainy-day fund for when downgrades to triple Cs pour in
4 years ago
If CLO managers are preparing for mass downgrades to triple C loans, then trading gains and thick OC cushions are the best defences -
Points up front: Goldman CLO head smashes triathlon
4 years ago
The head of US CLO syndication at Goldman Sachs, Jamil Nathoo, last month completed the South Beach Triathlon in Miami to raise money for Memorial Sloan Kettering, a cancer treatment centre in New York -
I liked it when banks could hold risk and actually had inventory to shift
5 years ago
Louis Gargour, CIO of LNG Capital, takes our credit quiz -
You don’t need a 15% default rate to make money in credit
5 years ago
Jeanne Manischewitz, head of North American credit at York Capital Management, takes our credit quiz -
The perception of liquidity is often not the same as the reality
5 years ago
Investec Asset Management's Jeff Boswell takes our credit quiz and discusses liquidity in Europe, the former "darling of the European debt market" Vivarte and the Matrix -
They said it: My friend (not a fan of the president) said she would erect a statue of Trump if there was any further Volcker rule rollback
5 years ago
A US lawyer tells us that President Donald Trump is gaining admirers in the credit industry.
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