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February 2024 US Leveraged Highlights
2 months ago
Debtwire today releases the February 2024 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets. -
Full-year 2023 European Leveraged Highlights
5 months ago
Debtwire has released the full-year 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, containing key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets -
End on a high: institutional loan and HY bond issuance rises 44% YoY
5 months ago
Leveraged finance (LevFin) issuance across the US institutional loan and high-yield (HY) bond markets totalled USD 529bn in 2023, representing a 44% year-on-year (YoY) increase -
Blackstone to close multi-strategy fund after assets fell nearly 90%
6 months ago
Blackstone plans to shut down its Blackstone Diversified Multi-strategy Fund by the end of the year after assets within the fund declined by nearly 90% in the last four years -
Primary loan and bond markets shows signs of revival, but at a cost
10 months ago
Activity in the US junk debt market has picked up after the 4th of July and the momentum is expected to continue through 2H23, but at a cost for issuers. -
June 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
10 months ago
Debtwire has released the June 2023 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets. -
May 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
11 months ago
Leveraged investors continue to favor bonds to loans, according to the Debtwire May 2023 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets. -
Fitch notches up US lev loan and HY 2023 default rate forecasts
1 year ago
Fitch Ratings has raised its US corporate institutional high yield bond default 2023 forecasts from 3%-3.5% to 4.5%-5%, and its leveraged loan default forecast from 2.5%-3% to 4%-4.5% -
Fund performance: Credit funds end difficult 2022 on a positive note
1 year ago
In December 66% of credit funds reached a positive return, following an even better November where 81% of all funds pushed into the black -
Manager looks to cut HY exposures in CLO-heavy credit interval fund
1 year ago
A credit fund manager has provided a performance update on is multi-strategy closed-end credit fund through regulatory filings, revealing it has beat its benchmark from 1 April to 30 September despite losing 13.66% -
Fund performance: August provides much-needed relief for CLO funds
1 year ago
.August fund performance -
LP round up: Magnetar and Värde among winners as $3 billion flows to credit
1 year ago
Institutional investors allocated at least $3 billion to credit funds in August -
CIFC boosts legal team with two senior appointments
1 year ago
CIFC Asset Management has announced two senior appointments on its legal and compliance team -
UBS says modelling suggests upcoming recession won’t bite
1 year ago
Likely global recession scenarios look mild according to strategists at UBS, who have run four models. -
Ucits at a glance: Ucits see red in a tough June for returns
1 year ago
June marked an exceptionally tough month for Ucits funds, as none of those listed in the Creditflux database made it into the black -
LP round up: 28 credit managers win $6.6 billion as San Diego carves private credit allocation
1 year ago
Pensions allocated over $6.6 billion to credit managers in June including Angelo Gordon, Antares, Apollo, Ares, Beach Point, BioPharma, Brookfield, CarVal, Cerberus... -
Beneath the triple C: CLOs take first knock since covid scrapes
1 year ago
CLO managers have been hit by a number of loan downgrades to triple C for the first time since the wave of pandemic-related cuts trickled to a halt in early 2021. Companies indirectly linked to the health sector suffered most in May -
You seem familiar
2 years ago
The overlap between European CLOs has risen to 51.6%, but the largest issuers are only slightly more aligned to their peers at 55.19% — so bonds are proving to be an important differentiator -
Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
2 years 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 -
CLO managers in the mix for first US credit event auction since 2020
2 years ago
CDS contracts referencing Talen Energy Supply will be settled by credit event auction next month. And Talen's recovery levels will have relevance for a number of CLO managers that have held onto the company's debt - in some cases having bought more very recently -
High yield / loan slowdown affects year-end projections and pricing: Barclays
2 years ago
A sharp decline in primary market activity means expectations for high yield bond and even leveraged loan issuance need to be lowered, say Barclays credit strategists. And that in turn has implications for relative value -
LP round up: CLO fund included in whopping $13 billion of credit allocations in November
2 years ago
Credit took centre stage in November as investors allocated over $13 billion to credit funds in the month, with one pension allocating $50 million for a European CLO risk retention fund -
"The CLO industry can be a little clubby… it feels like there are few advocates"
2 years ago
Pension Danmark's David Altenhofen taks our credit quiz -
CLO demand drives loan outperformance versus bonds
2 years ago
Leveraged loans could be set for their strongest run of outperformance over high yield bonds since 2017, say investors and strategists — if the CLO engine and an influx of money to funds continues to drive flows -
It's all relative: CDX HY touches record tights but junior US CLO tranches leak wider
2 years ago
Credit spreads are marching tighter, but someone forgot to tell the CLO market. European and US CDS spreads have moved in step with each other for the most part with investment grade and high yield tightening 4-6% in the last week, whereas CLOs have been losing ground
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