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Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
2 years ago
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. -
No labels mean CLO triple As refuse to budge as mezz rallies
2 years ago
Senior European CLO spreads are stuck in the mid 80s as mezzanine tranches rally, with market participants bemoaning the lack of depth in the triple A investor base relative to ABS products -
Past returns: Barclays gambles and wins on Zohar
3 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported how Barclays had made gains from its investment in the debt of Zohar CLO I, a deal which was filed into bankruptcy by manager Patriarch Partners a few months earlier -
ABS market holds strong as talf date approaches
3 years ago
The US Federal Reserve announced last week that the term ABS loan facility's first subscription date for loans backed by eligible asset-backed securities (ABS) will be 17 June, but before the Fed has even spent a dollar, talf has already been a success, says Tom Sweeney, co-head of structured credit finance at DWS Asset Management. -
Prophet closing hedge fund due to weak CLO liquidity
3 years ago
Prophet Capital is winding down its $500 million-plus CLO and structured credit hedge fund. The firm cites poor liquidity and uncertain valuations as the biggest factors behind its decision -
Structured credit dragged very wide — but CLOs stand to gain
4 years ago
Senior tranches of securitisations widened 220% in less than a month as the coronavirus pandemic has meant an increase in systemic risk — a sharp turnaround from the past few months when idiosyncratic risks were being cited as the main concern for structured credit investors. -
CLO investors should be looking at CSOs
At Creditflux’s Credit Dimensions event in New York, structured credit investors were told how synthetic CDOs fit neatly alongside CLOs, and there is no need to pick one over the other4 years ago -
Arrival of five-year bespokes draws in CLO investors
4 years ago
Synthetic bespoke tranches are undergoing a major shift, with dealers projecting five-year business to supersede previously dominant shorter tenors by the end of 2019. -
Past returns: secret CLO market
5 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported on the emergence of an inter-dealer market for CLOs -
German bad bank wins huge CLO auction
7 years ago
A German bad bank has emerged as the winner of a huge auction of CLOs and other asset-backed securities this morning -
Timing of CLO b-wic puzzles market participants
7 years ago
A huge CLO bid list scheduled for Friday (10 March) represents part of the liquidation of a CDO of ABS, according to Creditflux’s sister intelligence service Debtwire ABS
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