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The Last Tranche with Pretium's Goss: airlines are barometer for reopening trade
In this episode of The Last Tranche, Pretium's Roberta Goss and Creditflux's Hugh Minch discuss how the effects of the vaccine rollout and economic reopening are showing in the loan market. -
First Eagle opts to liquidate listed US loan fund
2 years ago
First Eagle Alternative Credit is in the process of liquidating its publicly listed, closed-ended credit fund, First Eagle Senior Loan Fund -
"In the afternoon I awoke from a pile of willow leaves to discover we had created a Welsh ether-based token"
2 years ago
A localised crypto-currency boom and bust cycle teaches Welshcake (again) that everything becomes correlated in a downturn -
Fund performance: CLO funds outperform as two hit over 100% 12-months return
2 years ago
CLO funds swatted away the competition in April on their way to dominating our top 10 credit hedge fund return table after an upbeat month -
Credit hedge funds (June 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: Altana sits atop tables as credit bounces back
2 years ago
Ucits funds picked up in April as 79% made positive returns -
CLOs bask in 'golden period' as industry approaches $1 trillion market cap
2 years ago
The economic rebound following the reopening US economy has created a 'golden period' for the CLO market, market participants say -
Control position in strong 2018 Axa CLO on sale today
2 years ago
$29.2 million of Allegro VII, a 2018 CLO managed by Axa Investment Managers, is on sale today in an all US CLO equity b-wic at 10am EST (3pm UK time). The bond is the fifth US CLO majority equity position to be listed on a b-wic this year -
CLOs come up smelling of roses
2 years ago
The coronavirus crisis could have cut back 10 years of CLO market progress, but investors’ foresight, trading chops and flexibility meant many saw their strategies blossom during 2020 -
CLO fund comes top by distance in middling month for credit
2 years ago
A CIS Asset Management fund, which invests mainly in US CLO equity, was the star performer in March after gaining 7.36% in the month -
Fund performance: Lightning strikes twice as range of credit funds deliver
What seemed like a chance occurrence in February has struck again in March, as seven categories make our top 10 best performing hedge funds -
Credit hedge funds (May 2021)
2 years ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Ucits at a glance: Altana moves into pole position
2 years ago
March marked a drop in pace for Ucits funds as only 62% of funds made positive returns, compared to 80% in February -
CLOs are here to help with infrastructure expansion
2 years ago
Issuers of CLOs backed by infrastructure debt are looking forward to a boom as investors turn to infrastructure projects as a way out of the pandemic slump -
It’s all relative: the Cornetto trilogy of CLO triple Bs
2 years ago
CLO arrangers have let their imaginations run wild when assembling triple-B rated notes – not because these have been tricky to shift, but because there is appetite for triple B CLOs that don't taste vanilla. The result is fat, split and overlapping triple Bs -
CSOs and index tranches reach sticking point as correlation gets rich
2 years ago
Credit correlation trading looks to have reached a point of inflexion, as the previous bull run at the lower end of index capital stacks has given way to caution over how much further spread compression can go. At the same time, bespoke tranche business is gaining interest but equity remains stickier to sell at the market's ultra-low spread and volatility levels -
Fitch lowers US loan default rates for 2021 and 2022
3 years ago
The rating agency has $200.9 billion of ‘market concern loans’ on its radar, saying these have declined in volume for the 12th month straight but are still up 16% from pre-pandemic. -
S&P lowers default rate forecast for US loan index
3 years ago
S&P Global Ratings has revised down its leveraged loan default rate forecast for the end of the year, based on the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index, from 3.5% to 2.75% -
BofA reveals top CLO managers through covid by market value and distributions
3 years ago
Bank of America's research desk has highlighted eight CLO managers with the best performance statistics through the covid-19 crisis, based on market value change and interest distributions -
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 -
Beneath the triple C: CLOs benefit as upgrades make for lighter triple C buckets
3 years ago
For the first time since the sell off in March last year, downgrades to triple C have come to a near-standstill -
"IG investors might want to rethink the instrument, but they need not fear rising rates just yet"
3 years ago
In his latest column for Creditflux, Cheyne's Duncan Sankey writes that the sharp rise in 10-year US treasuries could be positive for investment grade investors, but value is in CDS rather than bonds -
"Three CLOs issued in 2021 have included triple C baskets of 20%"
3 years ago
Big triple C buckets helped mid market CLO issuers in 2020 and the trend is for even bigger allowances this year -
Fund performance: assortment of funds step up
3 years ago
Seven categories are represented in this month’s top 10, making it the most diverse since February 2020 -
Ucits at a glance: Advent and Algebris lead the pack again
3 years ago
Ucits funds saw the brighter side of February, as 80% of funds achieved a positive return
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