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Värde Partners promotes two to partner
2 months ago
Värde Partners has made two senior-level promotions, including a new global head of business development and investor relations and a new chief operating officer -
Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
1 year ago
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs), Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. -
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 PM pair seek galaxy of opportunities with long/short fund manager launch
1 year ago
Two experienced portfolio managers have set up a new venture to take advantage of volatile markets -
HPS targets $9.5 billion for fifth mezzanine debt fund
2 years ago
HPS Investment Partners is targeting $9.5 billion for its fifth global mezzanine debt fund, HPS Strategic Investment Partners V - but unlike earlier vintages, HPS says it will not target opportunities within the upstream energy space -
High yield fund sets pace with 22% return in January
3 years ago
Wasserstein Debt Opportunities Fund has set the early pace for credit hedge funds in 2021 after registering a 21.7% gain in January. This builds on the high yield fund’s success last year and takes 12-month returns to 40.44%. -
Compression trades grind into gear as spreads narrow
3 years ago
Compression between high yield and investment grade credit looks to be finally gaining traction in February, having been identified by some strategists at the start of the year as a key 2021 theme -
Senior Pimco distressed portfolio manager joins ICG
3 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group says that it has hired a senior Pimco official as managing director and co-head of special situations in London -
400 holds $430 million final close on opportunistic structured credit fund
3 years ago
400 Asset Based Term Fund II will invest across structured credit including special situations, risk-transfers, and liquidity premium opportunities in the primary and secondary markets -
ICG plans €1 billion European special situations recovery fund
3 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group is targeting a €1 billion final close on its second multi-strategy special situations fund, which aims to exploit opportunities in the loan market arising from the coronavirus-induced pandemic -
Minnesota pension's 2020 credit allocations hit $1 billion
4 years ago
Minnesota State Board of Investments has earmarked $400 million across to two credit managers in a private market update. The commitments mark $1 billion allocated to credit in 2020 by the pension -
KKR deploys 10% of $2 billion coronavirus dislocation credit fund
4 years ago
KKR Credit has plans to launch a $2 billion dislocated corporate and asset backed credit fund to take advantage of coronavirus-induced volatility. And the New York-based manager has wasted no time swooping on opportunities after deploying $212 million by 9 April -
Credit traders' kickstand: rolling with the pain, as relative value trades come unstuck
4 years ago
What a difference a month - and a pandemic - make. This time in February, no-one could have imagined a global financial crisis would be unfolding, that credit performance would be a battle between a virus and some of the biggest government and central bank interventions on record, that today's iTraxx Europe and CDX index rolls would traverse unprecedented ranges, that option expiry strikes would be blown beyond recognition, or that cash and CDS differentials would be whipsawing with such violence -
EQT undertakes strategic review of credit business
4 years ago
EQT has announced a review of its credit business with the firm appointing JP Morgan to evaluate its 'strategic options', according to the firm’s Q4 2019 report -
Arizona pension to deploy up to $700 million a year in private credit
4 years ago
Arizona Public Safety Employee System is looking to deploy $600-700 million in private credit strategies per year in order to meet its target allocation, according to board documents seen by Creditflux. -
Private debt should alleviate the next downturn, says Paul Hastings
4 years ago
Private debt should soften the next downturn and not exacerbate it, according to a note published by law firm Paul Hastings -
Mizuho appoints US and European credit trading heads in leadership shake-up
4 years ago
The hires include a newly created CLO role, head of credit trading, and head of special situations and illiquid trading -
ICG hires from Cerberus as it prepares for distressed opportunities
5 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group has announced that Alan Ross has joined from Cerberus Capital Management to work on special situations credit -
Distressed debt prospects limited, finds survey, but most expect 16-20% returns
5 years ago
The coming year will be a continued slog to find investment opportunities for distressed investors, according to half of respondents in a joint survey conducted by Debtwire and law firm Orrick -
GSO co-founder plans new credit business
5 years ago
GSO Capital Partners co-founder Tripp Smith is launching his own credit management firm, according to a report by Bloomberg -
Blackstone grows credit assets by 31% over year
5 years ago
The firm achieved strong fundraising in credit, taking credit-related assets under managment to $130.6 billion in the third quarter, a 31% increase year-on-year -
EQT adds director to credit opportunities team
5 years ago
EQT Credit has made a hire from Santander in London -
Ironshield guards against future stress in Europe
6 years ago
The withdrawal of quantitative easing in Europe, coupled with rising interest rates, could lead to increased volatility and improved credit selection opportunities, especially among low-grade credits -
Former Greylock professionals iron out plans for EM distressed launch
6 years ago
Two London-based former professionals from Greylock Capital Management are preparing to formally launch Fierro Capital Management two years after the firm's incorporation, Creditflux understands
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