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Leveraged loan issuance unlikely to return in force until late 2023, conference hears
1 year ago
The leveraged loan primary issuance pipeline is headed for an elongated pause and primary loan activity is unlikely to return dramatically until late in 2023, attendees at IMN's ABS East conference in Miami heard on Monday -
LP round up: $2.7bn flows to 20 credit managers as investors battle PE overallocation
1 year ago
Investors faced huge headwinds in September with inflation, rising interest rates, and geopolitical turmoil, alongside the UK gilts sell-off at month end -
The Last Tranche with Octagon's Nechamkin: Investors were selling the larger loans that were easier to sell
2 years ago
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Mike Nechamkin, chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager at Octagon Credit Investors, discusses the reasons behind the recovery in loan prices in recent weeks -
Quick! Avaya has ignited and $1 billion of CLO assets are at risk
2 years ago
Sparks are flying in the leveraged loan and high yield market after communications company Avaya Holdings slashed its forecasted earnings mere weeks after syndicating new debt. The rapid decline of Avaya's debt has left CLO managers little time to avoid the blaze -
CSAM does the CLO awards double
2 years ago
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it -
LP round up: Fidelity wins big, Pacific retains loan mandate, pensions eye distressed
2 years ago
The month also included one CLO fund commitment, one high yield manager search, one finalised US loans mandate and one $400 million multi-sector fixed income managed account mandate -
Credit funds at a glance (February 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Credit Rendezvous: the upside of inflation
2 years ago
It is clear, inflation is not transitory and central banks are acting with several interest rate hikes likely in store for the US this year. That makes loans and CLO debt tranches attractive, but there could be opportunities beyond these floating rate assets -
Credit Rendezvous: ready and waiting
3 years ago
In Creditflux's quarterly review of credit, portfolio managers tell us that Inflation is likely to nudge higher but they are optimistic because dispersion will pick up and windows of volatility will emerge, rather than elongated phases of stress -
CLOs wheel and deal as overlap increases
3 years ago
2020 CLOs are a different breed to any other vintage. But this cohort features an overlap of almost 40% as CLO issuers have been forced to focus almost entirely on secondary market loans -
CLO issuers flex their bond muscles
3 years ago
Some panellists at Creditflux’s US CLO Investor Summit pointed to structural difficulties, but the consensus was that flexibility — particularly the ability to buy bonds — could improve performance -
Trading places: it can pay to bet on the little guy
4 years ago
It’s assumed investors know how good a CLO manager is by the rate at which they trade their way through a crisis. But this time fi ve small, nimble managers are outperforming the market -
Loan slump brings managers closer
4 years ago
A 19% slide in new US loan volumes last year has left CLO managers with fewer options in the primary market, and portfolio overlap between US managers has increased to 35.3% on average -
A different kind of crisis
4 years ago
Panellists on Creditflux’s US CLO webinar were positive about the robustness of CLO structures and the role of cure contributions. But they warned about zombie defaults and gaming tests -
We’ve survived before, we can do so again
$7.8 billion of CLO collateral, split evenly between the US and Europe, is in the loans that have fallen fastest in the past month. But short term CLO pain will bring opportunities for building par4 years ago -
We’ve survived before, we can do so again
4 years ago
$7.8 billion of CLO collateral, split evenly between the US and Europe, is in the loans that have fallen fastest in the past month. But short term CLO pain will bring opportunities for building par -
The Last Tranche with Octagon’s Lam: 2017 CLO refis and ‘no man’s land’ in loans
4 years ago
Spreads, investors and manager consolidation take focus in February's edition of The Last Tranche -
CLOs face losses as Constellis loan drops to 28.5
4 years ago
32 CLO managers hold $640.4 million of Constellis Holdings’ debt, which Moody's downgraded to C after the company missed an amortisation payment due 31 December -
US CLO managers look to scale flat WALs in search of flexibility
5 years ago
The anticipation of a downturn in the credit cycle has made investors turn their attention toward document provisions that give CLO managers flexibility -
Loan managers need an equity-like mindset instead of relying on docs
5 years ago
Octagon's Lauren Basmadjian takes our credit quiz and talks about buying CLO equity in 2009, the impact of technology on the retail sector and Eddie Murphy's 1980s heyday -
Texas pension fund approves two new CLO manager mandates
6 years ago
The Texas Municipal Retirement System has approved the appointment of GSO Capital Partners LP and Octagon Credit Investors as CLO managers on its non-core fixed income strategy -
Octagon’s debut retail credit fund goes live
6 years ago
XA Investments has raised up to $83.4 million for the closed-end credit fund it has set up with Octagon Credit -
Octagon launches its first retail credit fund
7 years ago
Closed-end fund with 50% allocation to structured credit goes live -
Octagon plans its first 40 Act credit fund with 50% bucket for CLOs
7 years ago
Octagon Credit Investors is working on what could become one of the first closed-end fund listings by an alternative credit manager in recent years -
Experienced loan specialist set to join Octagon in New York
8 years ago
Doug McDermott, who served as a managing director and head of loan sales at Deutsche Bank, is set to join Octagon Credit Investors at the end of the month
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