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Nassau adds $3.6 billion credit firm Angel Island to its platform
1 year ago
Under the deal, Angel Island will become a subsidiary of Nassau’s asset management unit, Nassau Asset Management -
Bain promotes European CLO PM to partner
1 year ago
Bain Capital has promoted its head of European structured credit and liquid credit to partner -
CVC plots further quasi-CLOs after landmark €400 million deal
1 year ago
CVC Credit closed a CLO-like’ vehicle backed by senior secured loans in December. Officials at the firm say they are in early stage discussions to launch similar vehicles after interest from equity investors" -
"This ‘higher rates for longer’ saga is more like the 1920-21 depression than the 1970s high inflation era"
1 year ago
Sometimes you have to swallow your medicine and take a step back to go forwards -
US pension plans termination of manager to bring "portfolio closer to market duration neutral"
1 year ago
Arkansas Teacher Retirement System is planning to reallocate assets to two existing fixed income managers -
Grifols basis opportunity opens as investors eye bond-CDS compression
1 year ago
The spread differential between Grifols’ CDS and its B3/B-/B+ rated €1 billion 3.2% senior unsecured 2025 bonds has opened up a positive basis-trade opportunity -
Medalist and Semper form partnership to jointly invest in structured credit
1 year ago
Medalist Partners and Semper Capital Management have joined forces in a partnership which results in the pair co-investing in structured credit. -
"Ironically, the better prospects for floating rate assets leads some to wait for even better returns"
1 year ago
Ironically, the better prospects for floating rate assets leads some to wait for even better returns -
Points up front: Shhh, don’t tell! Secret CLO pricing is in progress
1 year ago
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 -
Fund performance: Wake us up when September ends
1 year ago
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 faces blind spot as borrowers enter higher default cycle: BNP Paribas
1 year ago
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 -
Credit Suisse rallies hard as rest of market suffers
1 year ago
After a tough week for Credit Suisse, the bank’s credit spreads have ended Friday’s session on a notably better tone than most others in the European market -
"Value persists in IG, but higher interest rates are a threat. Opening the synthetic toolbox can help"
1 year ago
Fiscal and monetary policy are pulling in opposite directions, but value in IG can be accessed via CDS and CSOs -
Zais CLO management figurehead leaves after nearly a decade
1 year ago
Zais's leveraged finance business head has parted ways with the firm -
Saratoga returns to CLO primary market with first new issue in 14 years
1 year ago
Saratoga Investment Management returned to the CLO primary market on Friday with its first new issue transaction since 2008 -
US CLO pipeline: $100bn new issue mark about to be surpassed
1 year ago
Seven US CLO managers join one holdover in the new issue US CLO pipeline this week, as the market bears down on $100 billion of new issuance in 2022 -
New York-based manager prepares to issue its first 'new ' CLO since 2008
1 year ago
A CLO issuer from the 1.0 era is marketing a new deal via Goldman Sachs, which would be the manager's first new issue since 2008 -
CLO debt prices imply default rate exceeding forecasts, says Orchard Global
1 year ago
Current pricing of CLO debt tranches implies a default rate that is "far in excess" of the most pessimistic forecasts, according to Orchard Global Asset Management -
Chenavari strikes gold with senior CLO and ABS trading hire
1 year ago
Chenavari Investment Managers has made a senior hire to its European CLO and ABS trading team -
Founder of Alcentra's structured credit business to step down as PM
1 year ago
A long-time CLO tranche investor is set to move away from day-to-day portfolio management duties and take on a new role as senior advisor -
GSAM makes grand return to CLO issuance after three year absence
1 year ago
Goldman Sachs Asset Management made a grand return to the CLO primary market on Friday, pricing a new $401.61 million deal after a three year absence -
MUFG welcomes two senior originators to new US direct lending team
1 year ago
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has made two senior appointments to its new direct lending business -
Spreads trace worryingly familiar arc as investors take good news as bad and bad new worse
1 year ago
Credit spreads are pushing ever closer towards the year’s peak levels, continuing Wednesday a sell off that began on Tuesday, with positive US economic data perversely sparking a bearish shift in financial assets that negative European data has since compounded -
Widening asset/liability gulf will hurt CLOs: Barclays
1 year ago
A mismatch between CLO asset / liability rate risk is increasing in the US as more leveraged loan issuers opt for one-month pay frequency, Barclays credit strategists have found -
S&P revises US CLO stress tests to include recession-based scenarios
1 year ago
Standard and Poor’s has published revised stress test scenarios on the US broadly syndicated loan CLO market in light of increasingly negative market sentiment
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