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Managers advised to refresh disclosures after SEC risk alert
3 years ago
Credit managers should review their conflict disclosures after the SEC issued a risk alert, say lawyers -
CLO managers offer views on ESG for upcoming PRI report
3 years ago
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is set to unveil a report detailing results from its ESG structured credit survey in the next few months, and the institution anticipates that this will be a launch pad for further investigation about ESG integration into the asset class -
Direct lenders brace for requests to ignore covid quarters
3 years ago
Direct lenders will need to think about using different tracking mechanisms to measure a portfolio company’s performance going forward, as key metrics have been affected by covid-induced volatility, say market participants -
Flat Rock eyes interval fund conversion for private BDC
3 years ago
Flat Rock Capital Corporation, a private business development company managed by Flat Rock Global, has filed to convert to an interval fund, according to US regulatory filings. The BDC will merge into a new entity, subject to shareholder approval -
Triple A CLO investors advocate return to five-year reinvestment
3 years ago
As senior CLO spreads tighten across the globe, investors are pondering a return to pre-covid standard structures — but not everyone is in favour -
Cut! Cineworld’s cancelled merger boosts CLO OCs
3 years ago
Investors in Cineworld’s $1.9 billion term loan breathed a sigh of relief in July after the UK cinema chain cancelled its merger with Canadian firm Cineplex, with holders repaid in full, according to market sources -
Libor basis risk undermines Q3 CLO equity distributions
3 years ago
A technical issue for CLO Libor reset dates in April has hammered July equity payments, leading to a roughly 1% cut to equity cash flows for the second quarter -
Fund performance: Credit funds post double-digit gains
3 years ago
June returns have once again been led by CLO funds, as seven out of the top 10 belong to our CLOs category. -
Credit funds at a glance (August 2020)
3 years ago
A round-up of fundraising and people moves -
Ucits at a glance: Ucits funds march on and erase Q1 losses
3 years ago
95% of Ucits credit funds listed with Creditflux posted positive returns in June to keep up the momentum from May when all but one fund was in positive territory -
Credit hedge funds (August 2020)
3 years ago
Monthly credit hedge fund tables -
Don’t be a hero: managers opt to go market-neutral
3 years ago
There’s yet more volatility in store later this year — that’s the consensus according to credit portfolio managers that have spoken to Creditflux. What they are unsure about is the scale and direction of this movement, which is leading them to prune their portfolios with an emphasis on market-neutral tactics -
Three years after launch, Rockford Tower joins the elite
3 years ago
The CLO platform launched by King Street Capital Management in 2017 has been crowned Creditflux Manager of the Year -
Rampant technicals push cash and CDS in different directions
3 years ago
Central bank interventions, primary market issuance and high yield defaults have conspired to create major distortions in credit performance, which sources say are ripe for opportunistic trading. -
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 -
New funds move in as tranche trades take off
3 years ago
Synthetic structured credit funds are proving popular with investors amid a spike in index tranche trading -
Points up front: Introducing Downton Flux
During last month’s broadcast of the Creditflux Manager of the Year, we were inundated with messages of congratulations for the award winners via a live feed...
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Around 20% of the US CLO market has traded this year — not bad for an asset class that is seen as illiquid
3 years ago
CLOs can trade cheaply and directly, which helps keep volumes steady even in a crisis -
CLOs at a glance: managers show creative side to price new issues
CLO managers are having to get creative to print deals3 years ago -
Distressed to the nines: Noble joins CDX HY default tally
3 years ago
Noble Corporation, a US offshore drilling company, has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Americas Determinations Committee has ruled - making it the ninth default in the on-the-run CDX HY index -
DoubleLine makes CLO comeback with first new issue in over a year
3 years ago
DoubleLine Capital has returned to the CLO primary market with Parallel 2020-1, its first new issue in over a year -
CLO refi volumes reach $320 million this week as Fortress prices second deal
3 years ago
Fortress Credit Investors has priced a second CLO refinancing in the space of as many days, bringing the weekly refi volumes up to $318.72 million - the largest week for CLO refis by volume since February -
Voya achieves second-tightest CLO pricing since sell off
3 years ago
Voya Investment Management has printed Voya CLO 2020-2 via Natixis, the manager's second CLO since the March sell off. A source close to the deal says the CLO was fully syndicated with multiple investors in each tranche -
Acis CLO fights back against risk retention financier
3 years ago
A 2014 US CLO which was part of the acrimonious split between asset managers Acis Capital Management and Highland Capital Management has become the centre of a dispute stemming from a risk retention financing agreement signed in 2018 -
Banks and high yield corps lead charge as results prompt European rally
3 years ago
High yield corporate credit is today's outperforming part of the market as European credit rallies back from its recent wides, as the latest round of earnings proves stronger than many had expected
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