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Franklin Templeton wraps up deal for $35bn Alcentra
1 year ago
Franklin Templeton has completed its acquisition of BNY Mellon’s $35 billion credit unit Alcentra -
Private equity firms are becoming CLO converts: TwentyFour
1 year ago
Private equity firms have increasingly bought CLO and other securitised debt tranches in recent weeks instead of their usual preference for physical assets - a trade TwentyFour believes "makes perfect sense" -
Angelo Gordon makes senior hire to cater to insurance company investors
1 year ago
Angelo Gordon is expanding into investment solutions for insurance companies after hiring from JP Morgan -
Credit investors find bright spots in gloomy outlook: Credit Rendezvous Q4 2022
1 year ago
Clouds are looming over financial markets as the fourth quarter begins — so investors are moving away from diversified approaches in favour of tailored investments and relative value plays -
Credit funds at a glance (October 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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LP round up: private credit takes big slice of inflows as 10% portfolio share projected for 2026
1 year ago
Institutional investors revealed nearly $4 billion allocations to credit funds in July, with recipients including Angelo Gordon, Apollo, Ares, BlackRock, Brookfield, CarVal, Comvest, Deerpath, KKR, Schroders and Sixth Street -
Credit funds at a glance (August 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
1 year ago
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions -
Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
ECB wizards seek ‘anti-fragmentation’ spell to calm spreads
1 year ago
Eurozone financial market performance this month will heavily focus on the European Central Bank’s unveiling of an ‘anti-fragmentation tool’ as it races to avert a blow-out of peripheral spreads and the build-up of longer-term financing problems -
Real estate is about to get real bad: Welshcake
1 year ago
The extent of disconnect between real estate and what other markets have been experiencing is enough to convince me a whole other layer of economic mayhem is on the way. But investors in credit, for all their current pain, could still end up shining if they are prepared -
Credit investors look to outsource as risks begin to add up
1 year ago
Institutional investors and managers are outsourcing to third parties as credit and macroeconomic risks mount -
Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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Credit funds at a glance (May 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
1 year ago
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns -
Credit Rendezvous: Pass masters
1 year ago
Most often, a credit market downturn has its roots mired in one big, blatant obstacle that credit managers have to focus their attention to overcome. But right now, it’s not the dominant risk factor that has to be defeated, it’s the sheer number of them... -
Credit funds at a glance (April 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Credit funds at a glance (March 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
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 funds at a glance (January 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Credit Fundraising: mega funds contribute to record-breaking month as volume hits $39bn
2 years ago
The sheer size of the funds raised in November more than compensated for a drop in the number of funds raised as fundraising volume in credit reached $38.9 billion. This beat September by $2.4 billion to make it the most productive month of credit fundraising in 2021 -
Credit Fundraising: Private credit and CLO captive equity feature strongly as closes mount up
2 years ago
Credit funds have made a fair start to the fourth quarter, although the $21 billion raised during October is down substantially on September’s impressive record for 2021 -
Credit funds at a glance (November 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Credit Rendezvous: Credit spins full circle
2 years ago
The third quarter was massive in terms of volumes with CLOs, high yield, leverage loans and private equity registering record issuance. But credit spreads were up and down as inflation fears, crackdowns in China and rising coronavirus cases became catalysts for risk-off sentiment in July and September
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