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They said it: "We are proud to be moving our industry in a direction that will bring greater liquidity..."
1 year ago
Brian Carosielli, co-head of global credit trading at Bank of America, on a new CLO trading platform -
CSAM does the CLO awards double
1 year 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 -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
1 year ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
"Faltering oil supply is lamentable at a time of strategic and moral shortfall"
2 years ago
We need to accept the pain and cut dependence on Russian oil today -
Flexible approach is designed to deliver competitive performance
Nuveen’s Symphony CLOs benefit from teams who are active across a range of credit and bond funds -
"The loan market is the septic tank for sub-single B LBO financing"
2 years ago
Portfolios of single name IG CDS are less complex and more liquid than CLOs -
"In 2022, being slow will not be such a bad thing"
2 years ago
St David losing its place as the UK’s smallest city would be a travesty. Replacing Libor might be worse -
The Creditflux CLO Symposium was back as an in-person event for the first time in two years and participants were delighted to socialise and bask in an amazing year for the credit industry2 years ago
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"Purchasing IG CLO debt was a key driver of success for 1.0 CLOs"
2 years ago
Longer reinvestment periods, the ability to buy IG tranches and improved loan settlements would improve CLOs -
"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 -
"Do not rush to set up a check-box approach with negative screening and start de-investing"
2 years ago
Instead of rushing through an ESG framework, asset managers need to adopt a long- and short-term approach -
"Alongside larger private equity funds, loan volumes will continue to grow"
2 years ago
Spire's Phil Bennett-Britton takes our credit quiz -
"In some ways, CLOs resemble a quirky, cottage industry more than a trillion-dollar market"
2 years ago
CLO volumes outstanding have passed $1 trillion, but index omission and private placements are holding us back -
"Pain is on the way: spreads are too tight, while compression and carry are done. But what if it's not?"
2 years ago
Welshcake reminds us that mid-cycle portfolio management is a funny old game -
"Technology won’t replace human judgement. In ESG a qualitative review is necessary"
2 years ago
The social aspect of ESG must be given sufficient weight in investment decisions -
We say it: Creditflux salutes women in credit
3 years ago
The credit industry is blessed with many strong women and for this issue of Creditflux we’re exclusively hearing their voices across our news, analysis and columns -
A transformational framework means fund managers have to drive real-world change
3 years ago
There are managers who make transformational investments, those who incorporate ESG and those who do nothing -
The imperfect incorporation of ESG is no excuse not to act
3 years ago
Managers’ legal ESG responsibilities may be vague, but they must still set up a credible strategy -
All types of financing will have to incorporate ESG risks and use their real economy influence
3 years ago
Fund managers can no longer ignore, postpone or hide from measures to tackle climate change -
CLO collateral managers who are able to update their documents could gain warf advantage
3 years ago
Moody’s is reviewing its approach to warf. Changes could boost managers’ ability to trade -
Questions will need answering about where a manager's fiduciary responsibility lies
3 years ago
A university lecturer gives Welshcake a shock with a CLO presentation that points to shady trading games -
They should have followed Revlon's Double Twist mascara slogan of 2009: "It's worth a double take"
3 years ago
Blockchain might not eradicate all problems in credit, but it should reduce human error -
Points up front: How much do I owe you?
3 years ago
Payment systems in the credit industry had a bad August -
They said it: "Imagine a garden party and all of a sudden a big wasp shows up"
3 years ago
On Creditflux’s US CLO webinar last month, Napier Park’s head of US CLO investments Serhan Secmen described the March sell-off as a garden party -
Some managers calculated their CLOs were passing OC tests, only to find them failing the next day
3 years ago
Corporate credit downgrade storms have been weathered before, but this one has come out of season
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