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CLO new issues shut down as market digests fiscal stimulus measures
4 years ago
The CLO and loan pipelines have dried up as managers and investors shift their focus to trading, according to market sources -
Alcentra prepares listed credit fund
4 years ago
BNY Mellon Investment Advisor has teamed up with affiliate Alcentra to launch a listed fund that can invest across a range of credit strategies -
Loan index drops below 90 for first time since February 2016
4 years ago
The S&P/LSTA leveraged loan index dropped below 90 today as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the world's financial markets -
Beneath the triple C: mighty CLO buckets from Akorns grow
4 years ago
Rating agencies went on a downgrading spree in February, with Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s cutting 20 corporate names to triple C or below – affecting $2.78 billion of paper in US CLOs and €316.6 million in European CLOs. -
PRI unveils ESG workstream for CLOs, loans and ABS
4 years ago
Principles for Responsible Investment has established a workstream on environmental social and governance standards in structured products -
Loan market slump feeds into CLO pricing
4 years ago
The loan market opened this week 2-4 percentage points lower than last week, pushing it toward 90—a threshold it has not crossed since February 2016. CLOs have reacted to this rapid drop -
Fed cut triggers Libor floors on third of US loans
4 years ago
Roughly a third of US loans effectively became fixed rate investments this week as Libor edged below 1% for the first time since January 2017 -
Dispersion tests hedge fund managers
Credit hedge funds with the ability to go long and short the market were the top performers last year. But dispersion made it possible for fund managers to eke out value across many sectors4 years ago -
CLO managers don’t always prioritise profits
Research into CLO trading by professors Florin Vasvari and Maria Loumioti leads them to believe that, when CLOs are bound by strict constraints, managers tend to focus on ‘compliance trading’4 years ago -
ESG pervades US CLOs but screening approach divided
4 years ago
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is reshaping the US CLO market, with February bringing the first CLOs marketed that have explicit ESG-related investment criteria. -
Managers seeking bond buckets will need high yield track record
4 years ago
US CLOs could soon be permitted to buy corporate bonds amid an overhaul of the Volcker rule, but market sources say that in the short term bond flexibility is a luxury that will only be afforded to a select group of CLO managers. -
Credit funds at a glance
4 years ago
A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
Ucits at a glance: Ucits start year on high note
4 years ago
A round-up of ucits fund performance -
CLO and repo markets lick wounds after Fed burns its cred
4 years ago
In the wake of yesterday's emergency Fed rate cut, CLO investors say the spread between Libor and the overnight indexed swap indicates Libor has further to fall -
Job opportunities with BNY Mellon: corporate trust group
4 years ago
BNY Mellon has released details of seven vacancies -
Massachusetts pension commits $200 million to structured and corporate credit
4 years ago
Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Trust has approved commitments with CKC Credit Opportunity and LMCG Serenitas -
Pretium buys Latigo to boost distressed capabilities
4 years ago
Pretium Partners has bought the investment management business of New York-based Latigo Partners, in a bid to expand the firm’s distressed debt and event-driven credit capabilities. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed -
European CLO managers with big bond buckets do best, finds Bank of America
4 years ago
European CLO managers that trade in the secondary market and hold a higher percentage of fixed rate assets are likely to outperform their peers, Bank of America finds in latest research -
Lord Abbett preps floating rate interval fund with monthly share repurchase
4 years ago
Lord Abbett Enhanced Floating Rate Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in floating rate products including senior secured or unsecured loans, second lien debt and floating rate structured credit including CLOs -
VIP Cinema makes uncomfortable viewing for CLOs as it's reeled into Chapter 11
4 years ago
CLOs hold $52.9 million of debt in seatmaker VIP Cinema Holdings, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the District of Delaware -
CLOs dock $100 million of Pier 1 as it plunges into Chapter 11
4 years ago
CLOs hold just over $100 million debt of Pier 1 Imports, which filed for voluntary Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia yesterday -
CLOs feel flat after housing $335 million of bankrupt RentPath
4 years ago
CLOs house $334.5 million of the debt of RentPath Holdings, which filed for Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on Wednesday -
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 -
Credit Rendezvous: the outlook in 2020 across a dozen segments of the credit market
4 years ago
Welcome to the Credit Rendezvous, the first instalment of a regular feature published by Creditflux that tracks credit market dynamics in a dozen segments from investment grade, liquid loans, CLOs and CSOs all the way through to distressed debt. We view this as the meeting point for credit specialists across strategies to share their perspectives
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