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Lord Abbett prepares special situations interval fund
3 years ago
Lord Abbett is preparing to launch a new special situations fund in the form of an interval fund -
Senior structured credit portfolio manager tipped to join BlueBay in London
3 years ago
BlueBay Asset Management is close to filling a gap on its structured credit portfolio management team -
DE Shaw amasses $1 billion for stressed and distressed assets
3 years ago
The fund will invest in stressed and distressed assets, financings, and special situations opportunities -
Fund performance: CLO funds keep up momentum as Napier Park finishes top
3 years ago
2020 ended with funds in our CLOs category taking the top few spots -
LP round up: Dutch pensions put €1.3 billion into infra debt
3 years ago
Institutional investors allocated over $2 billion to credit funds in January. Opportunistic credit funds were a favourite but the biggest moves came in infrastructure debt -
Credit Rendezvous: heading for homes
3 years ago
Fund managers in structured credit, real assets and distressed are bullish on the prospects for residential housing in 2021. Elsewhere, niche royalty-based strategies are in favour and although a CLO repricing wave is expected, it may not be easy to execute resets. For more, read our 13-page quarterly report on credit. -
Credit funds at a glance: several funds post double digit November returns
3 years ago
November was a strong month for credit hedge funds listed by Creditflux, with latest returns demonstrating the effect of the vaccine/US election rally on fund perfomance -
Stone Point and Wilton Re invest $100 million in Nassau
3 years ago
Nassau Financial Group says Wilton Reinsurance Company and Stone Point Credit have invested $100 million in its business through a new series of non-cumulative perpetual preferred equity -
2020 wrap: CLO funds bloom despite rocky ground
3 years ago
2020 was a busy year for CLO fundraising, with Creditflux recording at least 30 funds that launched over the 12 months to invest across the CLO capital structure -
Signs of new dawn as tranche volumes smash past $250bn
3 years ago
Last year, people formed fresh habits as they adapted to the coronavirus pandemic. Similarly, in credit, a breakthrough year for the CDS tranche market is leading participants to believe that elevated tranche volumes are here to stay -
LP round up: pensions plan private credit pacing as strategic credit takes on "midfield" role
3 years ago
US pensions have allocated $1.4 billion across 22 credit funds including those managed by Angelo Gordon, Ares and GoldenTree, according to recent board documents seen by Creditflux. Meanwhile a pension fund draws parallels between strategic credit and Jordan Henderson -
LP round up: Monroe and Angelo Gordon beat 25 for direct lending mandate, as private credit plans brew
3 years ago
US public pension funds have disclosed $1.2 billion in commitments to credit focused strategies -
Ex-Highland officials launch Dallas credit management firm
3 years ago
Former officials at Highland Capital Management - Mark Okada, Jack Yang and Trey Parker - have launched a new credit investment firm in Dallas named Sycamore Tree Capital Partners, with plans to invest in and issue CLOs as part of a focus on traded credit, structured products and special situations -
LP round up: $2.8 billion flows to credit as Apollo concedes fundraising may slow
3 years ago
Florida Retirement System Trust Fund made the largest commitments allocating $1.6 billion. Apollo meanwhile acknowledged a potential slowdown in fundraising as investors await results on an independent review into CEO Leon Black's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein -
Fintech provider Allvue Systems appoints CEO
3 years ago
Allvue Systems, a provider of investment technology solutions to fund managers and investors in private debt, private equity and alternative assets including loans and CLOs, has named Mark Heimbouch as chief executive officer -
Credit fundraising: Dubai manager gets in on the act as direct lending takes off
3 years ago
Shuaa launches credit fund in the Gulf as Ares, Contingency, HPS and Perceptive are among those to close billion-plus funds -
Squarepoint adds former bank credit trading head in London
3 years ago
Squarepoint Capital, a cross-asset fund manager that uses systematic and quantitative strategies, has hired a former global credit trading head at Societe Generale to lead fixed income, currencies and commodities alpha capture -
LP round up: EIF backs four debt funds while Carlyle wins $1 billion
3 years ago
Institutional investors have allocated just over $4 billion to 27 credit managers in October board meetings -
Dealers power up as tranche trading hits new heights
3 years ago
A big year for index tranche trading has taken volume within grasping distance of full-year 2019, a post-financial crisis record, with a deepening pool of dealers adding support -
Former GoldenTree high-flyers launch structured credit firm in Los Angeles
3 years ago
A former GoldenTree senior portfolio manager and business development specialist have launched an asset manager that will invest across an array of structured credit, including CLOs, synthetics and private transactions -
US investors piled into structured credit and private lending in 2019, Gapstow finds
3 years ago
US institutional investors' allocations to 'alternative credit' increased 12% year-over-year in 2019, according to research by fund of funds manager Gapstow Capital Partners -
HSBC reveals details of its return to SRT issuance through two late-2019 deals
3 years ago
HSBC has shed light on its significant risk transfer business as part of its Pillar 3 disclosures -
Ex-Morgan Stanley CLO head joins blockchain firm to "change world of finance"
3 years ago
A former Morgan Stanley veteran has resurfaced at Figure, a San Francisco-based firm bringing blockchain technology to financial markets -
New funds move in as tranche trades take off
3 years ago
Synthetic structured credit funds are proving popular with investors amid a spike in index tranche trading -
Swedish fund nears public listing after big gains on CLO and tranche trades
3 years ago
Stockholm-based Ymer SC is moving forward with plans to list its structured credit fund on the Nordic Growth Market exchange in Sweden
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