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"Credit investors should interpret 100,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border as worth pricing in"
2 years ago
Welshcake tells credit portfolio managers to under-promise and over-deliver in 2022 -
Robeco adds Asia fixed income head and builds team ahead of strategy launch
2 years ago
Robeco has made a senior hire with a focus on credit and sustainability as it moves staff from Rotterdam in preparation to launch a new fixed income strategy -
Investors take nuanced approach to ESG as they move on from negative screening: Elfa
2 years ago
European bond and loan investors have evolved their ESG investment frameworks with 86% saying that they integrate ESG factors 'systematically and explicitly' in their investment process -
ESG template fires up hopes of CSO issuance
2 years ago
2021 may not have been a year of big volume in the synthetic bespoke market, but primary business is back, and decisive inroads into environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused issuance bode well for 2022 -
Brace yourselves for increasing ESG basis in credit
2 years ago
One of the safest bets in credit for 2022 is that ESG focus will intensify, with market participants anticipating a surge of green bond issuance as well as widening spread dispersion between climate leaders and underperformers -
BNP Paribas AM launches Article 9 social bond fund
2 years ago
BNP Paribas Asset Management has launched a sustainable bond fund that will be classified as article nine under the EU’s sustainable financial disclosure regulation -
BlueBay launches Article 8 multi-asset credit fund with Lloyds of London backing
2 years ago
The Article 8 fund will invest in high yield, bank loans, financial capital bonds, structured credit, convertible bonds, emerging markets and developed market investment grade -
Elfa launches ESG exclusion checklist to streamline process for CLO managers
2 years ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association has launched an environmental, social and governance exclusion checklist, which it says is designed to “streamline the negative screening and exclusion” for CLO managers -
CB bond purchase 'greening' is game changer for credit: BofA
2 years ago
Confirmation by the Bank of England that its corporate bond purchase scheme will be ‘greened’ is a game changing moment for credit markets, say Bank of America strategists -
CLO managers join forces as they line up behind SFDR
2 years ago
A plethora of European CLO managers have teamed up with regulatory reporting provider FinDox to form a working group focused on Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), sources tell Creditflux. -
Most investors still behind target with sustainability and impact investing, survey finds
2 years ago
72% of global investors plan to increase their allocation targets to sustainability and impact investing. That is according to a limited partner survey by private markets firm HarbourVest Partners HarbourVest’s 2021 ESG, Sustainability, and Impact Investing Survey of LPs -
Zais and BNP Paribas strike ESG breakthrough with climate change CSO
2 years ago
The growing theme of environmental, social and governance standards helping to revitalise the market for collateralised synthetic obligations appears to have taken a big step forward, with Zais Group and BNP Paribas partnering on a first-of-its-kind deal that could lay a template for future transactions -
LGIM launches European ESG bond fund
2 years ago
Legal & General Investment Management has become the latest manager to launch a European credit fund focused on environmental, social and governance criteria -
CLO Census latest: voting crosses 200 as range of dealers lead in CLO origination
2 years ago
CLO market participants are placing value on the specialist service that dealers are providing, according to Creditflux’s CLO Census, with three different banks leading the way for US CLO execution, structuring and syndication. A silimar trend is in play in Europe -
The Last Tranche with Capital Four: 26% of new European loans have an ESG-linked margin ratchet, and the US could follow fast
2 years ago
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Capital Four's Torben Skødeberg and Jim Wiant discuss the emergence of loans linked to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria -
"If ESG funds only talk the talk, it is because investors, legislators and regulators don’t walk the walk"
2 years ago
Whatever an ESG fund means to you, it probably means something different to the next investor -
Fidelity to add ESG portfolio test in Article 8-aligned CLO
2 years ago
Fidelity International has taken ESG scoring in the CLO market a step further by including a new ESG portfolio profile test on an upcoming European CLO -
"I’m passionate about broader representation within investment teams"
2 years ago
CIP's Leila Donnachy takes our credit quiz -
M&G launches ESG loan fund with Prudential UK and Kapan backing
2 years ago
M&G has launched a leveraged loan fund focused on environmental, social and governance -
Amundi focuses on ESG-linked margin ratchets in €1 billion private debt fund
2 years ago
Amundi has become the latest manager to place a focus on ESG-linked margin ratchets on its fourth private debt fund, which has a €1 billion target -
Cheyne puts focus on ESG-linked loans for new €1 billion strategic credit fund
2 years ago
The London-based manager held a €1 billion final close on its second strategic credit fund in the series, Cheyne European Strategic Value Credit Fund II, which it says took less than six months following its first close -
"Do not rush to set up a check-box approach with negative screening and start de-investing"
2 years ago
Instead of rushing through an ESG framework, asset managers need to adopt a long- and short-term approach -
Former DWS official claims company over-stated ESG progress: WSJ
2 years ago
DWS Group’s environmental, social and governance investment claims are in the spotlight after its former sustainability officer claimed the firm over-stated its ESG efforts, according to the Wall Street Journal -
Elfa taps Hermes to chair CLO investor committee
2 years ago
Trade body the European Leveraged Finance Association has formed a CLO investor committee it hopes will be a forum for various industry initiatives, including environmental, social and governance standards -
Green QE is future, says BofA
2 years ago
Last week's European Central Bank strategy review confirmed that climate change policies will dictate the shape of future asset purchases, say Bank of America credit strategists
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