Refine Search
Article Categories
Strategy Tags
- Direct lending (10)
- Distressed (5)
- Emerging markets (3)
- High yield bonds (197)
- Investment grade credit (5)
- Structured credit (9)
- CLO (33)
- Distressed debt (5)
- Leveraged loans (remove)
- Synthetic/SRT (10)
- ABL Financing (1)
Geography Tags
-
S&P adds to CLO negative watch list as loan downgrades pick up
4 years ago
Standard & Poor’s has added to the list of tranches in CLOs it has on negative watch as coronavirus concerns mount. This follows the rating agency last week highlighting 22 tranches across 15 US CLOs for having big exposure to downgraded corporate borrowers across impacted industry sectors -
Beneath the triple C: mighty CLO buckets from Akorns grow
4 years ago
Rating agencies went on a downgrading spree in February, with Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s cutting 20 corporate names to triple C or below – affecting $2.78 billion of paper in US CLOs and €316.6 million in European CLOs. -
Experienced CLO PM Bowers launches asset manager with private equity backing
4 years ago
Jonathan Bowers, a former partner and senior portfolio manager at CVC Credit Partners, has established an asset manager in partnership with a private equity firm -
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 -
First Eagle buys US CLO manager THL Credit
4 years ago
Two years after establishing its credit business with the acquisition of NewStar Financial, First Eagle Investment Management is aiming big again after striking a deal to buy THL Credit Advisors -
Western to launch European loan business after hiring portfolio manager
4 years ago
Western Asset Management is launching a European corporate loan business after hiring an experienced credit portfolio manager with a background rooted in the CLO industry -
Franklin Templeton reorganises long-short credit fund team
4 years ago
Asset manager Franklin Templeton Investments will make changes to the portfolio managers for the Franklin K2 Long Short Credit funds, effective from October -
Nordea AM portfolio manager joins Capital Four
4 years ago
Capital Four Management has appointed Nordea Asset Management portfolio manager Stine Milling Pilegaard as a director in its Copenhagen office -
Ontario pension selects new president and CEO
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has appointed Jo Taylor as its new president and chief executive officer, effective 1 January
4 years ago -
Former Apollo co-head of credit lands at MidOcean as credit CIO
4 years ago
MidOcean Credit Partners has hired Dana Carey as chief investment officer -
Oak Hill reshuffles leadership in Europe
5 years ago
Oak Hill Advisors has appointed three long-serving members of its investment and business development teams to lead the European office -
Investcorp hires ex-Medley structured credit head as John Fraser retires
5 years ago
Investcorp has appointed a CLO specialist as co-head of US credit, following the retirement of the firm’s previous sole US credit head -
Loans have changed. Leverage and docs are different. So what does this mean for recoveries?
5 years ago
With Fed chiefs past and present signalling rising financial risk, managers need to check their metrics, writes our columnist and Churchill Asset Management's head of capital markets and origination -
Ullico makes two senior hires for its new fixed income platform
5 years ago
Ullico, an insurance and financial services company, has appointed two senior professionals for its newly-created fixed income investment platform, UIA Investment Management (UIA IM) -
Man Numeric launches credit platform and appoints co-heads of credit
5 years ago
Man Numeric, the quantitative investment business of Man Group, has launched a new credit unit and appointed two officials to lead the business -
Alaska fund appoints CIO
5 years ago
Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC), the $65 billion sovereign wealth fund, has promoted an official to chief investment officer. -
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 -
European CLO PM rumoured to be joining CIFC from large asset manager
5 years ago
CIFC Asset Management looks to have made a major breakthrough in its bid to establish a European credit business with the $17 billion asset manager rumoured to be hiring the head of European performing credit at a large global credit firm -
Ashurst promotes five debt specialists to partner
5 years ago
Global law firm Ashurst has announced the promotion of 24 to partnership - including Kerion Ball, James Knight, Laura Ho, Tara Waters and Caroline Smart -
LGIM chief executive officer Zinkula steps down
5 years ago
Legal & General Invesment’s (LGIM) chief executive officer Mark Zinkula will step down from his position in August this year following his retirement -
2018 US CLOs are highly ramped at closing, but this could decline, says Fitch
5 years ago
New US CLO portfolios at closing have been ramped by over 83% on average every month this year, according to research from Fitch Ratings -
Credit hedge fund to pay $10 million to settle insider trading case
6 years ago
New York-based Visium Asset Management is to pay approximately $10 million to settle a credit fund insider trading case, 8 May US regulatory filings reveal -
Investcorp names new co-CEO
6 years ago
Alterative investment manager Investcorp has announced that Hazem Ben-Gacem will become co-chief executive officer, joining current co-CEO Rishi Kapoor -
Cerberus appoints former JP Morgan COO as president
6 years ago
New York-based Cerberus Capital Management has announced three senior leadership promotions: Matt Zames as president of Cerberus, Frank Bruno to co-chief executive officer and Lee Millstein as president of the Cerberus global investments. -
Cheyne generates double-digit returns for hedge funds
6 years ago
Cheyne Capital has delivered with two credit hedge funds that have reached their maturity
Want all the latest news, comment, analysis and data?