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Fitch expands ESG scores to America
7 months ago
Sustainable Fitch announced the US expansion of its ESG scores for leveraged finance today, designed to enable investors to compare metrics across CLO portfolios -
ELFA starts drive for consistent climate reporting in CLOs
7 months ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) has published a new report on CLO carbon and climate disclosures -
They said it: "I don’t know and I don’t care about ESG"
1 year ago
One of our CLO Census responders has a strong view (or not) on ESG -
Impact investor earns $146 million from US body for second CLO
1 year ago
An impact investment firm owned by M&G is poised to launch its second CLO, according to filings seen by Creditflux -
FinDox steps in on climate disclosure reporting for CLOs
1 year ago
FinDox has become involved in reporting on carbon data for climate-related financial disclosure regulations, having been mandated by leading CLO managers to source relevant ESG key performance indicators -
ESG investors bemoan corporate greenwashing
1 year ago
US CLO market participants have complained of loan issuer ‘greenwashing’ that aims to circumvent environment, social and governance portfolio restrictions -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
1 year ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
Managers debate ethics of investments in arms makers
The armaments industry has for a long time been negatively perceived by CLO managers and investors alike. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked debate on the subject2 years ago -
"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 -
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 -
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. -
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 -
TCW launches 'first' ESG-labelled structured credit fund in the US
2 years ago
TCW has launched what it claims to be the first dedicated structured credit fund with an ESG-label in the US -
"I’m passionate about broader representation within investment teams"
2 years ago
CIP's Leila Donnachy takes our credit quiz -
The Last Tranche with Bardin Hill's Raciti: For-profit prisons are classified as construction and have some of the best ESG scores
2 years ago
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Bardin Hill's Philip Raciti tells Creditflux that environmental, social and governance (ESG) is a growing risk factor for CLO managers -
CIFC's Vaccaro highlights importance of company culture [video]
2 years ago
CIFC Asset Management’s Steve Vaccaro gave an insight into his company’s approach to diversity and inclusion at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium earlier this month. He said that these values have been a focus for CIFC for a long time, culminating in the firm producing a CLO linked to a charitable initiative in May -
They said it: "The mantra is doing good and doing well without sacrificing returns"
2 years ago
CarVal on its ESG line of CLOs -
CarVal comes clean with ESG CLO platform launch
2 years ago
CarVal Investors has teamed with Insig AI to create a “clean CLO product line” through which it will issue ESG CLOs in the US -
CLO arrangers roll out carpet for ESG CLO warehouses
2 years ago
US arranging banks are offering looser warehouse terms to CLO managers if they can confirm that the resulting CLO will be compliant with environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, sources have told Creditflux. -
Permira takes 2021 Euro CLO volume over €1.4 billion with 2019 deal reset
2 years ago
Barclays arranged the €349.7 million ESG-labelled CLO, in a first-time partnership for the pair -
Axa IM extends palm oil policy to cover ecosystem protection and deforestation
2 years ago
Axa Investment Managers says it is expanding its 2014 policy of excluding investments in companies which do not have sustainable palm oil production certificates by factoring in deforestation and ecosystem protection -
LSTA, LMA and Elfa publish standardised ESG questionnaire for CLO managers
2 years ago
The Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA), Europe’s Loan Markets Association (LMA) and the European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) – have teamed up to launch a new ‘standardised’ ESG due diligence questionnaire for CLO managers -
Key counterparties make charitable donation as part of new CIFC CLO
3 years ago
CIFC Asset Management’s new US CLO, CIFC Funding 2021-IV, is linked to support for racial justice initiatives, officials working on the transaction have told Creditflux -
CLOs seem like Premier League members in the world of finance
3 years ago
The CLO industry is in a privileged position and can wield its power to do good
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