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The Last Tranche with Bardin Hill's Raciti: For-profit prisons are classified as construction and have some of the best ESG scores
2 years ago
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Bardin Hill's Philip Raciti tells Creditflux that environmental, social and governance (ESG) is a growing risk factor for CLO managers -
CIFC's Vaccaro highlights importance of company culture [video]
2 years ago
CIFC Asset Management’s Steve Vaccaro gave an insight into his company’s approach to diversity and inclusion at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium earlier this month. He said that these values have been a focus for CIFC for a long time, culminating in the firm producing a CLO linked to a charitable initiative in May -
"Do not rush to set up a check-box approach with negative screening and start de-investing"
2 years ago
Instead of rushing through an ESG framework, asset managers need to adopt a long- and short-term approach -
They said it: "The mantra is doing good and doing well without sacrificing returns"
2 years ago
CarVal on its ESG line of CLOs -
CarVal comes clean with ESG CLO platform launch
2 years ago
CarVal Investors has teamed with Insig AI to create a “clean CLO product line” through which it will issue ESG CLOs in the US -
Elfa taps Hermes to chair CLO investor committee
2 years ago
Trade body the European Leveraged Finance Association has formed a CLO investor committee it hopes will be a forum for various industry initiatives, including environmental, social and governance standards -
CLO arrangers roll out carpet for ESG CLO warehouses
2 years ago
US arranging banks are offering looser warehouse terms to CLO managers if they can confirm that the resulting CLO will be compliant with environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, sources have told Creditflux. -
Permira takes 2021 Euro CLO volume over €1.4 billion with 2019 deal reset
2 years ago
Barclays arranged the €349.7 million ESG-labelled CLO, in a first-time partnership for the pair -
CLO managers embed new EU sustainable disclosure language in docs after investor push
2 years ago
Bridgepoint, CSAM and Pinebridge are among managers to include language related to the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, following a push from CLO investor Lupus alpha -
Axa IM extends palm oil policy to cover ecosystem protection and deforestation
2 years ago
Axa Investment Managers says it is expanding its 2014 policy of excluding investments in companies which do not have sustainable palm oil production certificates by factoring in deforestation and ecosystem protection -
LSTA, LMA and Elfa publish standardised ESG questionnaire for CLO managers
2 years ago
The Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA), Europe’s Loan Markets Association (LMA) and the European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) – have teamed up to launch a new ‘standardised’ ESG due diligence questionnaire for CLO managers -
"Technology won’t replace human judgement. In ESG a qualitative review is necessary"
2 years ago
The social aspect of ESG must be given sufficient weight in investment decisions -
Elfa adds to ESG fact sheet range in standardisation drive
2 years ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) will shortly publish sector-specific fact sheets for the transport and healthcare industries, sources say, bringing its total of ESG fact sheets to 12 -
Partners prints five-year European CLO with ESG-scored deal
2 years ago
Partners becomes second European CLO manager to breakthrough the five year reinvestment period -
Blackstone and Credit Suisse among participants in talks for new ESG loan index
2 years ago
European leveraged loan market participants – including Blackstone and Credit Suisse – are said to be in the process of launching the ESG loan index -
Partners joins ESG-scoring CLO managers but standardisation doubts persist
2 years ago
Partners will implement its scoring system across its European CLOs, US CLOs and non-CLO funds -
Key counterparties make charitable donation as part of new CIFC CLO
2 years ago
CIFC Asset Management’s new US CLO, CIFC Funding 2021-IV, is linked to support for racial justice initiatives, officials working on the transaction have told Creditflux -
CLOs seem like Premier League members in the world of finance
2 years ago
The CLO industry is in a privileged position and can wield its power to do good -
Investor uses Paris Agreement as template for ESG language
2 years ago
Lupus Alpha Asset Management is supporting the advance of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria in European CLOs by embedding language into deal documentation that is linked to the European Union Paris-aligned Benchmark (which derives from the Paris Climate Agreement). -
"If we have to rely on top-down global political coordination we are all doomed"
3 years ago
ESG can’t be dictated to us by authorities. It’s a way of life -
Allstate CLO takes on ESG guidelines following reset
3 years ago
Fair Oaks Capital has laid claim to the first instance of converting a US CLO into an ESG-compliant transaction courtesy of a reset following the reworking of Aimco 2017-A this week -
A transformational framework means fund managers have to drive real-world change
3 years ago
There are managers who make transformational investments, those who incorporate ESG and those who do nothing -
Axa IM leads as ESG grows in European CLO industry
3 years ago
European CLOs are increasingly launching with express ESG mandates embedded as issuers seek to get ahead of what appears to be an inevitable shift towards ethical investing -
UN PRI's upcoming report on ESG in CLOs finds bar is very low
3 years ago
In a preview of the upcoming report, Carmen Nuzzo, head of fixed income at UN Principles for Responsible Investment, reveals to Creditflux key highlights from its ESG in securitisation report -
ESG growth in CLOs has momentum in 2021, say JPM strategists
3 years ago
ESG investing in securitised products such as CLOs have 'momentum for growth in 2021' despite very slow volume growth and lack of progress in standardised scoring over the past year, say JP Morgan strategists in a research note
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