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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 -
"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 -
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 -
"Extreme volatility can push BSL yields close to mid market levels, although that trade never lasts"
1 year ago
The two segments of the loan market are on different paths as mid-market volumes rise -
Making the grade: CLO managers move into IG bonds
1 year ago
CLO managers have been using the incredible volatility in credit markets this year to add an unfamiliar asset to their portfolios – investment grade bonds -
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 -
Eagle Point expands into structured products including SRTs with big hire
1 year ago
Eagle Point Credit Management has hired a head of ABS, MBS SRT and specialty finance, in a move which underlines the firm’s progression from a CLO equity investor to a broader credit asset manager. -
CLO counterparties hunt for signs of optimism: SFIG conference
1 year ago
Leveraged loan and CLO investors are hunting for signs of optimism as they face the prospect of a US recession -
US CLO manager valued at $278 million goes up for sale
1 year ago
One of the most consistent US CLO issuers for two decades is on the market -
Real estate is about to get real bad: Welshcake
1 year ago
The extent of disconnect between real estate and what other markets have been experiencing is enough to convince me a whole other layer of economic mayhem is on the way. But investors in credit, for all their current pain, could still end up shining if they are prepared -
NAIC unit suggests going beyond ratings by taking CLO evaluations in-house
1 year ago
A unit within the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has recommended that it takes oversight of the CLO investments held by US insurers by modelling these holdings in-house -
Blackstone revives Stratus brand as it prices opportunistic US CLO
1 year ago
Blackstone Credit is once again capitalising on dislocation in the credit market having priced a $393.6 million new US CLO on Monday under its Stratus brand. The CLO is understood to follow a print and sprint method, and analysis of the profile suggests that the deal could benefit from $20 million of upside if assets rally to par -
"Derivative longs versus cash corporate shorts looks attractive, especially if we see a market sell-off"
2 years ago
Technicals are keeping cash credit spreads tight, but as central banks reduce purchases there will be relative value opportunities -
Attack-minded CLO managers capitalise on bearish outlook
2 years ago
Some of the most aggressive CLO managers have benefited from loan market volatility in March after having tweaked their portfolios in the months beforehand
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