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Fund performance
11 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 -
CDS volume jumps by 50% as investors seek new ways to do business
1 year ago
Credit derivatives traders are wrapping up a bumper year, in which there was a big increase in volume and a growing number of use cases for the product -
EIB backs German bank's SRT
1 year ago
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg has issued an SRT with support from the European Investment Bank. -
A&M makes securitisation breakthrough with SRT for Polish bank
2 years ago
Alvarez & Marsal says it has completed its first securitisation as sole arranger after completing an SRT referencing a pool of housing community loans -
Real estate is about to get real bad: Welshcake
2 years 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 -
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 -
German property co hits new wides as investors scrutinise investigation report
2 years ago
The bearish momentum that gripped financial markets on Friday has spilled over the weekend into Monday's session, with an especially big move in the debt of one German real estate borrower taking it to worrisome spread levels -
That’s another fine mezz I’d like to get into
2 years ago
Structural protection and flatter curves make short-dated mezz tranches attractive. Speakers at Credit Dimensions discuss which positions they’d take in CSOs, options and tranches this year -
"Pivot points in curves may not stay where they have been historically"
2 years ago
CTAs and CSOs are changing the way credit curves move -
Women in CLOs, CLO Summit and Credit Dimensions to return to New York in March
2 years ago
Creditflux has announced our three New York events will now take place at the end of March. We will host Women in CLOs on 28 March, followed by the CLO Investor Summit on 29 March and Credit Dimensions, our event for the synthetic structured credit community, on 31 March -
"Credit investors should interpret 100,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border as worth pricing in"
2 years ago
Welshcake tells credit portfolio managers to under-promise and over-deliver in 2022 -
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 -
"No-one talks about the part oil price surges played in the 2008/9 global financial crisis"
2 years ago
Investors eyeing inflation shocks and supply chain disruption should instead be paying attention to the brewing energy crisis -
Credit hedge funds (November 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Dispersion trades in play as transatlantic rift opens
2 years ago
The return of idiosyncratic risk at the wide end of US and European high yield markets has put index equity tranches for the two jurisdictions on noticeably divergent paths, say correlation traders -
Credit hedge funds (October 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
“For Creditflux this will be an extra special occasion - the publication is marking its 20th year in business”
3 years ago
A colourful train journey featuring Alice in Wonderland, Yoda and Top Trumps puts Welshcake in mind of the CLO Symposium -
Credit hedge funds (September 2021)
3 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Goldman builds out exotics strategy amid tranche market high
3 years ago
The index tranche market is gaining support, with Goldman Sachs adding to those building up their presence, officials at the bank confirm -
Credit hedge funds (August 2021)
3 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
3 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. -
CSO pipeline strengthens following ESG breakthrough
3 years ago
ESG criteria and longer investment horizons are driving new business in a resurgent bespoke tranche market, say dealers. And while this is unlikely to get 2021 near to a 2019-like haul of deals by year end, hopes are high that volume is firmly back on an upwards traject -
Fund performance: Déjà vu as April leaders dominate
3 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 index tranche trading on the rise amid low dispersion
3 years ago
At its halfway point, 2021 is shaping up as another big year for credit index tranche trading, with new investors having entered the market and dealers projecting full-year volume could vie with 2020’s record of recent times.
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