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Fidelity rocks personal records with tightly priced US CLO
2 years ago
Fidelity has signed its biggest ever new US CLO and priced triple As at the tighter end of the marke -
Morgan Stanley EV resets post-Assurant CLO with tighter stack
2 years ago
Morgan Stanley Eaton Vance CLO Manager has completed a $416 million CLO reset, its second in under a month -
BlackRock upsizes mid-market CLO and tightens pricing with reset
2 years ago
BlackRock has reset a 2017 mid-market US CLO called TCP Whitney, upsizing the deal in the process and tightening much of the capital stack -
Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
2 years ago
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives. -
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 -
MidOcean employs rare tranche structure with 2016 US CLO reset
3 years ago
MidOcean Credit Fund Management has reset a 2016 vintage US CLO via Jefferies, upping the deal size slightly and shaving its funding costs in an unusual reconfiguration of tranches -
Credit Rendezvous: heading for homes
3 years ago
Fund managers in structured credit, real assets and distressed are bullish on the prospects for residential housing in 2021. Elsewhere, niche royalty-based strategies are in favour and although a CLO repricing wave is expected, it may not be easy to execute resets. For more, read our 13-page quarterly report on credit. -
Structured credit fund loses 32.4% in March as junior US CLO debt slumps
4 years ago
Volta Finance’s net asset value dropped 32.4% in March, according to a monthly report released yesterday. US CLO debt was the weakest performer for the structured credit fund, managed by Axa Investment Managers, losing 41.3%. -
Structured credit dragged very wide — but CLOs stand to gain
4 years ago
Senior tranches of securitisations widened 220% in less than a month as the coronavirus pandemic has meant an increase in systemic risk — a sharp turnaround from the past few months when idiosyncratic risks were being cited as the main concern for structured credit investors. -
Fund perfomance: Slowdown for some as pandemic takes hold
A round-up of fund performance4 years ago -
Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
4 years ago
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Fund performance: Presents under the tree as CLO funds perform
A round-up of fund performance4 years ago -
Falling correlation reignites passion for index tranche trades
4 years ago
Dispersion in the global corporate credit market is rekindling interest in correlation trading, with dealer sources reporting that a late surge lifted 2019 index tranche volumes to $250 billion. -
Fund performance: Long-short funds rule in October as CLO funds struggle
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
Fund performance
4 years ago
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Fund performance
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
Five-year bespokes movement leads to managed CSO talks
4 years ago
Longer dated synthetic bespoke tranche business could soon receive new impetus, with dealers and investors ramping up talks about re-establishing managed portfolios as a common feature of the CSO market. -
Fund performance
4 years ago
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CLO investors should be looking at CSOs
At Creditflux’s Credit Dimensions event in New York, structured credit investors were told how synthetic CDOs fit neatly alongside CLOs, and there is no need to pick one over the other4 years ago -
Investments in CSOs can be more fruitful than in CLOs
Some CSO tranches may off er better returns and provide exposure to higher-rated credit than similar tranches of CLOs. Also, the CSO term curve is steeper and more stable than that of CLOs4 years ago -
Bespoke gains pull CLO buyers as market tipped to hit $100bn
5 years ago
Synthetic bespoke issuance could catch up with the more visible CLO market this year, say structured credit specialists -
The Last Tranche: Podcast episode 1
5 years ago
Creditflux takes on Las Vegas, b-wics and Welshcake, among other credit topics in the inaugural episode of the Last Tranche podcast -
Trups CDO spreads shift wide of late 2018 levels as EJF produces $314 million deal
5 years ago
Trups CDO spreads have widened since the end of last year – much like corporate credit spreads – after EJF Investments priced its sixth securitisation of financial company debt. -
Who predicted $145 billion of issuance?
6 years ago
That went better than expected: US risk retention came in, and $145 billion of global new issuance later, it’s clear that CLOs aren’t disappearing. By Tanvi Gupta and Sam Robinson
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