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Credit hedge funds (April 2021)
2 years ago
Monthly credit hedge fund tables -
Sandalwood funds of credit funds outperform in February
2 years ago
Credit funds of funds came out on top in February, a month characterised by the sell off in US treasuries -
"CLO managers who struck the right balance in 2020 are more easily able to reset their deals"
2 years ago
CLO managers were re-evaluated during the pandemic, and outperformers can expect to see benefits this year -
"Watch the IG credit curve — we may see steepening of IG 5s10s and flattening of 10s30s"
2 years ago
Stimulus measures are supporting short tenors, and pension demand for 30-year paper is strong, so 10-year IG credit may have few buyers -
"We have to think about the influence of social media like Reddit"
2 years ago
Schroders' Michelle Russell-Dowe takes our credit quiz -
Creditflux and Debtwire unveil CLO stressed and distressed market analysis
3 years ago
The first edition of the CLO Distressed Roundup, a joint-report by Creditflux and Debtwire, takes a deep dive into the distressed and stressed loans held by CLOs as of December. Our report shows CLO portfolios are 10.2% stressed and 4.17% distressed, lower than not only the nadir of the pandemic in May, but also before the pandemic -
CLO naysayers have made arb and cov-lite into dirty words — that should now change
3 years ago
Recent performance has shown that cov-lite loans and challenging arb don’t spell doom for CLOs -
Moving fast pays off for hedge funds
3 years ago
2020 was an up and down year in credit, and credit hedge fund managers had to move quickly to capture opportunities from the dislocations that inevitably opened up -
Credit funds at a glance (March 2021)
3 years ago
A round-up of fundraising and people moves -
Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
3 years ago
New year, same funds leading the way with CLO strategies the top performers in January -
Ucits at a glance: CIFC nears positive 12-month returns
3 years ago
Ucits funds have started 2021 on a quiet note as 72% of funds achieved a positive return -
Credit hedge funds (March 2021)
3 years ago
Monthly credit hedge fund tables -
High yield fund sets pace with 22% return in January
3 years ago
Wasserstein Debt Opportunities Fund has set the early pace for credit hedge funds in 2021 after registering a 21.7% gain in January. This builds on the high yield fund’s success last year and takes 12-month returns to 40.44%. -
It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
3 years ago
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter -
US private credit default rate drops to 3.6% in Q4: Proskauer
3 years ago
US private credit default rates dropped to 3.6% in the fourth quarter, according to law firm Prokskauer’s Private Credit Default Index -
It's all relative: CLOs are lagging no more, as Carlyle deal drags market tighter
3 years ago
“CLOs are lagging” has been a much repeated refrain over the last nine months. But Carlyle Group has this week produced a US CLO that has dragged spreads to their tightest point in three years so that, rather than comparing CLOs to pre-covid levels, they should be assessed against early 2018 -
A year that looked like it would be a total wipe-out ended up being very constructive indeed
3 years ago
Our columnist looks back at some of the surprises of 2020 -
The tide has turned… the solution for investors is to move into floating rate loans
3 years ago
2020 was the year of fixed-rate bonds, but treasury curves are steepening and demand for loans is heating up -
At least 2020 wasn’t dreadful for CLOs
3 years ago
Last year’s downturn was another in which CLOs survived and in many cases thrived as active management and Libor floors helped managers deliver 13%-plus returns to equity -
Early 2021 moves open up CLO and credit curve dislocations
3 years ago
Fund managers are keeping a close watch on credit curves as sharp moves since the start of December have forced relative value to shift between corporate bonds, CDS, CLOs and loans. This has put CDS curve steepeners in focus but, conversely, CLO flattening appears likely. -
US banks embrace CLOs again to drive spread compression
3 years ago
The three big US bank-buyers of senior CLO tranches — Citi, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo — all returned to the mar-ket as investors in January after sitting out for much of 2020 -
CLO managers face ramping challenges as inflation risk rises
3 years ago
A mix of inflation worries and pandemic uncer-tainty is pushing up loan prices and causing CLO managers to struggle to construct new portfolios -
Credit funds at a glance (February 2021)
3 years ago
A round-up of fundraising and people moves -
Fund performance: CLO funds keep up momentum as Napier Park finishes top
3 years ago
2020 ended with funds in our CLOs category taking the top few spots -
Ucits at a glance: Advent ends calendar year on top
3 years ago
Ucits ended 2020 on the rise as 89% of funds achieved positive returns in December
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