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Direct lender Raven separates from Metlife just one year after it was acquired
1 month ago
Raven Capital Management, a New York and Santa Monica-based private credit specialist, has parted ways with parent company Metlife after just a year under its ownership -
Global corporate defaults on fastest pace since 2009 according to S&P
1 month ago
The number of corporate defaults has risen dramatically year-to-date, according to S&P Global Ratings, driven by a doubling of the rate of defaults in Europe -
Private credit funds are more stable, lower levered and more regulated than you might think
2 months ago
The private credit market’s steady and impressive growth has caused some pundits to voice concerns about an eventual bubble. While we expect there to be more dispersion in private credit funds’ performance in the coming years, we don’t see signs that a bubble is about to burst. -
Benefit Street Partners raises USD 4.7bn for latest flagship direct lending fund
3 months ago
Benefit Street Partners held the final close of its fifth flagship direct lending fund — dubbed BSP Debt Fund V — with USD 4.7bn of investable capital -
Private credit’s abundant dry powder is great news for CLOs as well as borrowers
4 months ago
The recent rapid growth in private credit funds has garnered much attention from market participants and media pundits. While naysayers warn that this “shadow banking” channel could be a bubble waiting to burst in the higher-for-longer environment, issuers and investors continue to flock to the asset class. -
Basel III looks likely to further increase banks investment in CLO triple As
7 months ago
Demand for CLO triple As has grown substantially over the past few years as more banking institutions, pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies discover this attractive asset class, which historically has never taken a loss. -
US loan default rates will peak near record levels, says Deutsche Bank
10 months ago
A new research paper from Deutsche Bank has forecast leveraged loan default rates rising to near all-time highs by the fourth quarter of 2024. -
Low warehouse balances show CLOs bracing for volatility
10 months ago
A record number of CLO warehouses are open but contain record low balances, according to several market sources. The figures indicate that CLO managers and equity investors are preparing for a sell-off in the loan market in the latter half of 2023. -
Aquarian's Driscoll: It took six months from JP Morgan taking over Bear Stearns for the scale of the crisis to be revealed
11 months ago
At Creditflux's CLO Symposium in London in May, Justin Driscoll, chairman of Aquarian Credit Partners, sat down with Creditflux to discuss the outlook for the US CLO market -
CLO funds make best of a bad situation
1 year ago
It can’t get any worse can it? Well, it did in 2022, when credit spreads kept moving wider. Still, CLO funds were able to withstand the pressure, and they outperformed other credit strategies -
HPS raises $12 billion for fifth junior capital fund
1 year ago
HPS Investment Partners has closed its fifth junior capital solutions fund, HPS Strategic Investment Partners V, at $12 billion. With leverage, the strategy has $17 billion investable capital -
CLO head set to leave Morgan Stanley EV
1 year ago
The head of structured products at Morgan Stanley Eaton Vance, is set to retire from the firm at the end of this year, according to a memo seen by Creditflux. -
Weekly US CLO issuance volumes pass $2.5 billion as Putnam prices
1 year ago
Putnam Advisory Company priced a new CLO via JP Morgan on Friday named 37 Capital CLO 3 at $353.76 million -
SVB and the case of the missing CLO exposure
1 year ago
Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse has dealt credit markets another hammer-blow with the past 12-months bearing witness to more dips than a mezze platter. Whereas past misfortunes in credit have provided an opening for some observers to critique the ‘toxic’ structure that is a CLO, this time things are a little different. -
Senior CLO officials leave Credit Suisse ahead of move to Canadian bank
1 year ago
Credit Suisse’s CLO operations have been hit with two senior figures leaving the bank -
Experienced CLO investor set to leave Tetragon
1 year ago
A well-known CLO tranche investor is set to leave Tetragon Credit Partners. -
Barclays won't let sleeping dogs lie after another Newfoundland CLO reset
1 year ago
Newfoundland CLO, the long running and world's largest balance-sheet CLO, has been given a new leash of life by upsizing in a reset yesterday, according to announcements from Moody’s and Scope Ratings. -
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. -
Senior CLO officials leave Natixis in shock round of resignations
1 year ago
Natixis has been rocked by the departure of four senior members in its CLO and structured credit team -
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 -
"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 -
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
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