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November 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
5 months ago
Debtwire today releases the November 2023 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets -
Blackstone to close multi-strategy fund after assets fell nearly 90%
5 months ago
Blackstone plans to shut down its Blackstone Diversified Multi-strategy Fund by the end of the year after assets within the fund declined by nearly 90% in the last four years -
May 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
10 months ago
Leveraged investors continue to favor bonds to loans, according to the Debtwire May 2023 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets. -
Crédit Agricole appoints head of corporate and leveraged finance
11 months ago
Crédit Agricole CIB has appointed a head of corporate and leveraged finance, effective Thursday -
Fund performance: European CLO funds lead the way
1 year ago
February was a positive month for many funds, as only one quarter failed to reach the black. This builds off a stellar start to the year: 96% of funds reached a positive return in January -
SEC charges former BlackRock PM with undisclosed conflict of interest
1 year ago
The Securities and Exchange Commission said it has charged a former BlackRock portfolio manager for failing to disclose a conflict of interest in a fund he managed from 2015 to 2019 -
LP round up: two managers terminated as 20 win $2.5 billion
1 year ago
US institutional investors allocated over $2.5 billion to 20 credit managers in October, according to documents seen by Creditflux. Two credit fund managers however were terminated in the month -
Sculptor CEO Levin refutes "personal issue" accusation by ex-chief Och
1 year ago
Sculptor Capital Management’s independent board and the company’s chief executive officer and chief investment officer Jimmy Levin have fired back at former CEO and founder Daniel Och after he cited a “personal issue” in reference to Levin’s past -
Franklin Templeton and Benefit Street launch credit interval fund
1 year ago
The pair have launched a multi-strategy credit interval fund named Franklin BSP Private Credit Fund, which will invest across US private credit -
"Faltering oil supply is lamentable at a time of strategic and moral shortfall"
2 years ago
We need to accept the pain and cut dependence on Russian oil today -
LP round up: CLO fund included in whopping $13 billion of credit allocations in November
2 years ago
Credit took centre stage in November as investors allocated over $13 billion to credit funds in the month, with one pension allocating $50 million for a European CLO risk retention fund -
"The CLO industry can be a little clubby… it feels like there are few advocates"
2 years ago
Pension Danmark's David Altenhofen taks our credit quiz -
Fund performance: Déjà vu as April leaders dominate
2 years ago
CLO funds stayed in the top flight for another month as they took over the top 10 credit hedge fund return table in May, when 87% of all funds listed made positive returns -
Credit markets heed early indicators of inflation pressure
2 years ago
Inflation became the topic du jour after the consumer price index (CPI) grew 4.2% in April, its fastest rate since September 2008 and much higher than the 3.6% many analysts predicted -
CLO PM set to leave PGIM ahead of move to London-based manager
2 years ago
A London-based mid-sized CLO manager has hired an official from PGIM -
Woah, we’re halfway there
3 years ago
Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform -
Fund managers brace for EU’s new sustainability regulations
3 years ago
European fund managers were faced with new environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) regulations in March, which enhance disclosure requirements around sustainability -
LP round-up: $2.6 billion flows into 26 credit managers
3 years ago
A stuck ship in the Suez Canal may have prevented others from getting through one of the world's busiest waterways in March, but allocations to credit funds were much more free flowing as investors poured over $2.6 billion into the hands of credit managers -
Vontobel names fixed income trading head amid four senior hires
3 years ago
Vontobel Asset Management has appointed four senior hires to its team including a newly created role of head of fixed income trading -
It's all relative: CLO spreads explore record tights as credit indices hit impasse
3 years ago
CLO spreads are grinding to ever tighter levels, despite a flattish week for credit in which corporate credit indices have ended up more or less unchanged -
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 -
Alcentra co-CIO for liquid credit set to leave this month
3 years ago
A high profile figure in the US CLO business is leaving Alcentra -
LP round-up: investors gift private debt and leveraged loan RFPs over holiday season
3 years ago
2020 ended on a strong note with four institutional investors increasing asset allocation to private debt or initiating private debt and leveraged loan searches. ArrowMark, Banner Ridge, BBAM, HIG Whitehorse, Monroe and Rialto were also awarded mandates -
Cessation of activity mid-December is an opportunity to switch off… and let the mind wander
3 years ago
Welshcake is grateful for a lull in credit markets. The downtime has inspired him to dream up a CLO play -
Loomis Sayles promotes deputy CIO to top job
3 years ago
Loomis Sayles has named a replacement chief investment officer, following the retirement of incumbent CIO Jae Park
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