Brigade adds RMBS specialist to its ranks
Brigade Capital Management has strengthened its structured credit team by hiring an RMBS and ABS specialist 

Fund performance: CLOs dominate again as CIFC and Hildene score hat-tricks
CLO funds once again take over the top 10 as seven of those listed with Creditflux invest predominantly in the asset class. So far in 2021, CLO funds have held a majority of the spots in the top 10 on four occasions

Credit hedge funds (September 2021)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (September 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

BlackRock upsizes mid-market CLO and tightens pricing with reset
BlackRock has reset a 2017 mid-market US CLO called TCP Whitney, upsizing the deal in the process and tightening much of the capital stack

Millennium senior tranche trader jumps to Verition
An experienced synthetic structured credit trader has left Millennium Management in New York to join Greenwich headquartered Verition Fund Management

Credit Fundraising: Blue Owl and WhiteHorse gain from improving animal spirits
Fundraising perked up in July as managers raised $14.9 billion for credit funds - the third highest monthly amount this year

RBC securitised products sales director departs for new firm Panagram
A Royal Bank of Canada securitised products sales director has left to join new investment firm Panagram Structured Asset Management in New York

Credit manager beats 25 to win £2.1 billion corporate bond mandate
UK pension pool Brunel Pension Partnership has selected a credit manager to manage its £2.1 billion ($2.9 billion) sterling corporate bond sub-fund

The Last Tranche with Antares' Seth Painter: we could start to see syndicated middle market CLO equity
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Antares Capital's Seth Painter tells Creditflux's Hugh Minch about the performance of private credit and middle market CLOs through the covid-19 crisis and recovery

RBC hires ex-Citi structured credit sales head for alternatives push
RBC Capital Markets has hired Citi's former European structured credit sales head to lead its European alternatives and private capital solutions effort

Signal detects European CLO options for upcoming fund
Signal Capital has plans to capitalise on the European CLO and ABS market, with sources indicating the special situations fund manager is seeking to launch a relative value hedge fund focused on these asset classes in September.

Goldman builds out exotics strategy amid tranche market high
The index tranche market is gaining support, with Goldman Sachs adding to those building up their presence, officials at the bank confirm

Broadening SRT market defies spread compression
Credit spreads are close to all time tights — high yield, courtesy of CDX HY, recently hit its tightest level since January 2007 — but the significant risk transfer (SRT) market is one of the few pockets of credit where pricing is wide of pre-covid levels

Credit hedge funds (August 2021)
Credit hedge fund returns

Investcorp looks at M&A for US CLO growth: Bloomberg
Investcorp Credit Management’s co-head of US credit David Moffitt has outlined plans to double the firm's US CLO assets under management – which include acquisitions and equity partnerships

Pretium swoops for three managing director hires to residential credit business
Pretium has made three managing director hires to its residential credit business in New York 

CIP plugs ABS team gap with senior portfolio manager hire in London
CIP Asset Management has filled a gap on its European structured credit team

King Street raises $1.2 billion for first global credit drawdown fund
The fund will target distressed and stressed corporate debt, structured products, and asset-backed investments, as well as claims and claim-related opportunities

UK pension allocates £2.1 billion to CQS, Neuberger and Oaktree
Three global credit managers have won a total of £2.1 billion in credit mandates from Brunel Pension Partnership, as part of its newly launched Multi Asset Credit Fund.

CLOs stand to win from US capital cost refinement, says BofA
A move by US insurance regulators to refine the capital charge framework for structured products will make CLOs more attractive versus corporate bonds, according to Bank of America strategists

Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives.  

Squarepoint draws big name options market maker to buy side
An experienced credit options trader has decided to join the systematic and quant strategies manager in a change of career from working on the sell side