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CLO pipeline: Man GLG resurfaces from six-year absence as deals exiting call-lock fill pipeline
2 years ago
CLO spreads have leaked out in recent weeks but deal economics are still favourable, encouraging managers to come back to the primary market for the first time this year -
Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD
2 years ago
Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD -
BlackRock holds $940 million first close on global private debt fund designed for UK pensions
2 years ago
BlackRock has collected $940 million on a first close of its new private debt fund BlackRock Diversified Private Debt Fund -
LP round up: $3.2 billion flows to 21 managers as private credit illiquidity premium holds firm
2 years ago
Investors allocated at least $3.2 billion to credit managers in April - and direct lending funds were in favour with Churchill and Ares being awarded two mandates -
Credit fundraising: three massive European direct lending funds notch up €17.6 bn
2 years ago
Fundraising figures continued upwards in April as just over $24 billion was raised for credit funds, alongside $3.2 worth of allocations to credit managers. Nine funds held final closes including the largest European direct lending fund raised to date -
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 -
Europe leads corporate credit rally, but US outperforms in CLOs
3 years ago
iTraxx Crossover has been the CDS market's outperformer this week, tightening over 30 basis points, or 11.4%, to trade at 235bp today. But in the CLO market, US deals have come out on top thanks to a BlackRock CLO that priced its double Bs at some of the tightest levels this year -
CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
3 years ago
Over $3.5 billion of global CLO issuance priced last week and managers in all three CLO markets are taking advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure after three major covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs and increased confidence since the US presidential election -
WTW to tackle lack of diversity across investment industry
3 years ago
Progress on diversity across the investment industry is “disappointingly slow”, according to research from Willis Towers Watson -
CLO pipeline: fixed income giants plan debut 2.0s with Morgan Stanley
3 years ago
Two large fixed income managers are pre-marketing debut 2.0 CLOs -
LP round up: $5 billion flows to credit as private market allocations increase
3 years ago
Global institutional investors allocated nearly $5 billion to credit funds this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
CLO pipeline: managers large, small and new ready to price in post-Labour Day surge
3 years ago
US managers are preparing a wave of new issue CLOs in the coming days, as the usual post-Labour Day pricing surge comes to fruition even in this most unusual of years -
Fund performance: Almost a third of credit funds reach positive YTD returns
3 years ago
July has been a successful month for many credit funds, despite the recovery peaking in May and June -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO triple As finally rally while European investors go ‘all in’
3 years ago
A huge supply of $731 million of US CLO triple A bonds pushed US CLO secondary volumes to just shy of $1.5 billion last week -
LP round up: horseshoe does the trick for Pimco and other distressed managers
3 years ago
Institutional investors poured $2.7 billion into credit this week through 14 managers, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux -
CLO pipeline: Apollo targets fourth deal as managers line up to break 2020 ducks
3 years ago
Six CLO managers, five in the US and Fair Oaks Capital in Europe, are showcasing their first new issues of the year in preparation for pricing later this month. And Apollo Global Management is marketing its fourth new issue CLO (third US new issue CLO) in the last month and a half -
We’ve survived before, we can do so again
$7.8 billion of CLO collateral, split evenly between the US and Europe, is in the loans that have fallen fastest in the past month. But short term CLO pain will bring opportunities for building par4 years ago -
A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit
4 years ago -
We’ve survived before, we can do so again
4 years ago
$7.8 billion of CLO collateral, split evenly between the US and Europe, is in the loans that have fallen fastest in the past month. But short term CLO pain will bring opportunities for building par -
In 2019, some CLO managers hoped that good timing would enable them to lock in favourable arbitrage levels, but others opted for aggressive or conservative tactics when building portfolios4 years ago
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Dispersion tests hedge fund managers
Credit hedge funds with the ability to go long and short the market were the top performers last year. But dispersion made it possible for fund managers to eke out value across many sectors4 years ago -
Real assets are now the top picks in private credit
4 years ago
Direct lending is no longer the darling of the private credit market, with pension funds increasingly making space for credit strategies backed by real assets. -
Making arb work of it
4 years ago
In 2019, some CLO managers hoped that good timing would enable them to lock in favourable arbitrage levels, but others opted for aggressive or conservative tactics when building portfolios. -
UK pension hires BNP Paribas AM for starring role in core-satellite private credit fund
4 years ago
UK pension fund Nest has appointed BNP Paribas Asset Management to run the core of a private credit fund, sources say, in an arrangement which sees Amundi and BlackRock manage certain satellite investments -
CLO pipeline: Capital time to debut in Europe as liability spreads drop
4 years ago
CLO managers are showing no signs of slowing down, as a further 16 US and five European new issue CLOs, including Capital Four's CLO management debut, appear in the pipeline
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