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Fed members need to restore their credibility, which could translate into excessive tightening
8 months ago
Rising wages have boosted spending and GDP — but the party can’t last forever -
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 -
DebtDynamics North America: Likely-to-distress scores highlight struggling industries
10 months ago
Out of a universe of more than 12,000 leveraged US companies, 180 are in the stressed/distressed lifecycle categories -
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. -
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 -
Three defaults mean CLO OC ratios to decline by 17bp in September, says BofA
1 year ago
CLO overcollateralisation ratios are set to decline by 17 basis points in September following the defaults of Cineworld, Endo and Carestream health, according to a research paper from Bank of America -
Broad sell-off as market moves to price five or more Fed hikes
2 years ago
Financial market sentiment has taken another dive in the wake of the US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, with many taking Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s comment that “this cycle is different from the previous one” to mean a steeper tightening than previously thought -
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 -
CLO lower cap stack will outperform with $175bn new issuance in 2022: JP Morgan
2 years ago
Equity and lower rated tranche investors will do best as $175 billion of global new CLO issuance arrives in 2022, predict JP Morgan strategists in their annual outlook, taking market size to $1.2 trillion -
Spread adjustment curve emerges for ground-breaking Walker & Dunlop Sofr loan
2 years ago
Walker & Dunlop has changed the credit spread adjustment (CSA) on its fully-Sofr $600 million loan, Debtwire reports, with a varied structure depending on the benchmark tenor -
Nine CLOs each — and every one of them is different
2 years ago
CLO giants Blackstone and Carlyle Group have printed nine new US CLOs apiece this year, but CLO market participants say managers are creating distinct portfolios -
Landmark Sofr loan nears with spread adjustment giving taste of things to come
2 years ago
The first fully-Sofr US loan is getting closer -
Santander to acquire Amherst Pierpont for $600 million
2 years ago
Banco Santander says it has struck an agreement to acquire fixed income broker dealer Amherst Pierpont Securities -
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 -
CLO demand to drive loan outperformance over bonds: BNP Paribas
2 years ago
The buying power of CLOs and funds could mean leveraged loans rally further and outpace high yield bonds, says BNP Paribas' credit research team -
Update: Kayne to split from CLO and credit opps units
2 years ago
Kayne Anderson is set to spin out its CLO business -
Credit fundraising: three massive European direct lending funds notch up €17.6 bn
3 years ago
Fundraising figures continued upwards in April as just over $24 billion was raised for credit funds, alongside $3.2 worth of allocations to credit managers. Nine funds held final closes including the largest European direct lending fund raised to date -
Moving fast pays off for hedge funds
3 years ago
2020 was an up and down year in credit, and credit hedge fund managers had to move quickly to capture opportunities from the dislocations that inevitably opened up -
It's all relative: CLOs are lagging no more, as Carlyle deal drags market tighter
3 years ago
“CLOs are lagging” has been a much repeated refrain over the last nine months. But Carlyle Group has this week produced a US CLO that has dragged spreads to their tightest point in three years so that, rather than comparing CLOs to pre-covid levels, they should be assessed against early 2018 -
[update] Beneath the triple C: theme parks take portfolios on downward ride
3 years ago
Seven corporate debt issuers were downgraded to triple C or below in September by Moody’s or Standard and Poor’s – hurting $2.16 billion of US CLO loans and €1.16 billion of European CLO portfolio. The pace of CLO loan downgrades to triple C has slowed steadily since the peak in April -
CLOs hold $600 million of bankrupt retailer Tailored Brands
3 years ago
Tailored Brands has become the latest US retailer to file for Chapter 11 as a result of the coronavirus-induced pandemic. 37 US CLO managers hold $588.9 million in term loans of the Houston-headquartered firm, -
LP round up: Oregon eyes $1.8 billion into structured credit
3 years ago
Institutional investors have earmarked over $6 billion to credit funds over the past two weeks -
LP round-up: Champaign pension raises a glass (or bucket) to private credit
3 years ago
Institutional investors allocated over $600 million to 11 managers this week, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux -
Beneath the triple C: April showers send buckets overboard
4 years ago
Downgrade waves rocked the CLO market in April as Moody's and Standard & Poor's downgraded 135 corporate borrowers to triple C or below, from ratings above that level. The downgrades put CLOs in rough waters as $41.6 billion of such loans are prevalent in US CLOs while €5.64 are moored in European CLO portfolios – affecting 5.92% of the US market and 4.37% of the European market -
Credit pickers need luck to avoid OC trap
4 years ago
We know what you’re thinking: is my CLO failing its OC test? The truth is, in all this volatility, it can be hard to keep track, unless your deal has high quality liquid loans
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