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February 2024 US Leveraged Highlights
1 month 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
4 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
4 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%
5 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 -
State of the US Loan Market 3Q23 - Xtract Special Report
6 months ago
The US leveraged loan market continued to languish in 3Q23, but the average covenant score for large Sponsor loans bounced back somewhat from its precipitous decline in 2Q23 according to this special report -
Lumen Technologies ad-hoc group preps competing proposal
6 months ago
The refinancing of Lumen Technologies, currently held by 1311 different CLOs with a combined principal balance of USD 3.8bn, took a new twist today as details of a competing proposal emerged -
Packers’ recovery chances debated amid industry-wide child labor investigations
7 months ago
A popular CLO credit, Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI), made the news last week in Debtwire -
US leveraged loan issuance drops 35% year on year
9 months ago
Debtwire 's new July 2023 US Leveraged Highlights report sees a striking 70% year-on-year decrease in new money institutional activity as lack of supply from the M&A market weighs on issuance -
Primary loan and bond markets shows signs of revival, but at a cost
9 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. -
Recent US bankruptcies show non-DIP lenders wiped out
10 months ago
A trio of recent US bankruptcies is testing the CLO market's recovery assumptions, according to Debtwire’s Restructuring Database of recent court filings. -
Loan Highlights 2Q23: Running aground
10 months ago
The global loan market endured a bleak first half of the year, with the overall 1H23 volume falling 28% year-on-year (YoY) to $1.9 trillion, the lowest showing since 2012. -
May 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
10 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. -
Do amend and extends now before big chunk of CLOs exit reinvestment, says BofA
11 months ago
Research analysts at Bank of America are recommending CLO managers complete amend and extend activity before a wave of transactions exit their reinvestment periods later in the year -
Fitch notches up US lev loan and HY 2023 default rate forecasts
11 months 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 -
Lights go out for Heritage Power with 120 CLOs left in the dark
1 year ago
US based power plant operator Heritage Power filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the bankruptcy court of Texas on Tuesday night, impacting $124.45 million of assets held by 120 US CLOs. -
Beneath the triple C: Life could be better, but it’s just a letter, under the CCC
1 year ago
Many market participants were eagerly looking forward to a break in December after a gruelling year, but the rating agencies were in no mood to oblige. -
LP round up: 27 managers find the top corner with investor wins
1 year ago
Credit fund managers like to take it one fund at a time and give it 110% for their 90-minute investor fund pitches - and it's working as $3.8 billion was allocated during November and early December. The gaffer would be proud. -
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% -
European CLO managers trade loans to avoid (par) burn
1 year ago
Between March and July, European CLO managers traded €21 billion of assets within CLOs that were still in their reinvestment period as opportunities arose amid a weaker macro environment and Russia’s war with Ukraine -
Beneath the triple C: Stormy October hits CLOs with rising tide of downgrades
1 year ago
After a slight respite in the pace of downgrades over the summer for CLOs, October brought renewed momentum as macro-economic pressures - primarily high interest rate burdens for corporate borrowers and supply side inflation - became the recurring rationale -
Up to 40% more US loan supply will hit primary market next year: Barclays
1 year ago
US leveraged loan supply in 2023 will outstrip this year’s tally by a good margin, according to Barclays credit strategists in New York. But it will remain below average, particularly given the increased size of the index -
Pimco targets up to $5 billion for flexible credit fund
1 year ago
The fund will invest across capital solutions, distressed and stressed opportunities, and idiosyncratic positions -
What matters is what you do with it
1 year ago
CLO managers yearn for flexibility so they can take advantage when credit sells off. But it isn’t enough on its own: triple C-flex CLOs saw portfolios erode this year, while CBOs outperformed
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