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Fund performance
7 months ago
Positive August for credit sees CLO funds on top again -
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 -
LA pension awards $675 million to illiquid credit managed account
1 year ago
The strategy will invest across asset-backed credit, loans, bonds, and specialty finance -
Cairn begins "new chapter" as it rebrands to Polus
1 year ago
Cairn Capital has been renamed Polus Capital Management, which brings it together with Bybrook Capital, the credit asset manager it acquired in 2021. -
Short duration CLOs are putting reset risk in the post: Barclays
1 year ago
The CLO market’s recent trend of shorter duration issuance could be setting up a problem for managers down the line that will impact their equity returns, Barclays has warned -
A&M makes securitisation breakthrough with SRT for Polish bank
1 year ago
Alvarez & Marsal says it has completed its first securitisation as sole arranger after completing an SRT referencing a pool of housing community loans -
Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
1 year ago
There was more upheaval for credit funds in April, reversing the mini-recovery in March as 40% of funds made positive returns, a decrease on the 47% in March -
Novicap names new CEO in leadership shuffle as it sets targets for credit division
2 years ago
Novicap, a fintech company offering working capital optimisation solutions to SMEs and mid-market corporates, has shuffled its leadership structure and set a €1 billion cumulative volume target for its credit division by the end of this year -
LP round up: Oak Hill wins $3bn mandate as credit allocations near $10bn in March
2 years ago
Institutional investors revealed over $9.5 billion of allocations to credit funds in March. Oak Hill Advisors walked away with the largest mandate, as US heavyweight pension Calpers allocated a whopping $3 billion across several of its funds -
CLO equity could get hurt by mismatch in credit spread adjustments: Barclays
2 years ago
The possibility that borrowers and sponsors start to use their clout to scrap credit spread adjustments from leveraged loans poses a risk for new CLO equity, while legacy deals also face transition challenges -
Fund performance: Groundhog Day as 2021 leaders start strong
2 years ago
CLO funds once again claim the most top performing spots as seven out of 10 funds belong to the category -
Fund performance: Wasserstein's early 2021 performance drives it to the top
2 years ago
The final top 10 of 2021 featured a variety of funds as five different strategies were ranked among the best. US high yield was the most highly represented with two BlackRock funds and an Angel Oak in the top 10 -
Gapstow expects strategic deals as credit manager M&A volume slumps to $120 billion
2 years ago
M&A volume involving credit asset managers dropped last year with total target value assets under management slumping to $120 billion from $149 billion in 2020 (and $254 billion in 2019), according to Gapstow Capital Partners -
CLO lower cap stack will outperform with $175bn new issuance in 2022: JP Morgan
2 years ago
Equity and lower rated tranche investors will do best as $175 billion of global new CLO issuance arrives in 2022, predict JP Morgan strategists in their annual outlook, taking market size to $1.2 trillion -
CLO resets drive equity returns to highest in five years: JP Morgan
2 years ago
Equity investors in US CLOs are earning, on average, the biggest returns of the past five years, finds JP Morgan – with deals reset this year having done most to raise the numbers -
Credit hedge funds (November 2021)
2 years ago
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Credit hedge funds (October 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Credit hedge funds (September 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Credit hedge funds (August 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
2 years ago
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives. -
Fund performance: Déjà vu as April leaders dominate
2 years ago
CLO funds stayed in the top flight for another month as they took over the top 10 credit hedge fund return table in May, when 87% of all funds listed made positive returns -
Credit hedge funds (July 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: Ucits stay positive for second month in a row
2 years ago
Ultra-tight credit spreads are not taking away from Ucits funds – 80% of funds in our database have again recorded positive returns. -
Credit hedge funds (June 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: Altana sits atop tables as credit bounces back
2 years ago
Ucits funds picked up in April as 79% made positive returns
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