Chenavari expands European presence with Paris office
Chenavari Investment Managers has expanded its presence in Europe with the opening of a French office

Credit funds at a glance (October 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
 

   

Chenavari strikes gold with senior CLO and ABS trading hire
Chenavari Investment Managers has made a senior hire to its European CLO and ABS trading team

We’ll get through this awkward patch
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

Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
 
   

Chenavari takes three-pronged approach with new specialty finance fund
Chenavari has raised capital for a specialty finance fund, officials at the company have confimed to Creditflux. The fund, the firm’s latest vintage private credit strategy, launched in February

Euro CLO league tables: Jefferies takes huge lead as managers bunch up
The increased volatility and geopolitical risk brought about by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine meant European CLO issuance dropped off in March after a strong February

Investcorp triple As hit 110bp in first Euro CLO of year
Jefferies arranged the €451.9 million deal, named Harvest XXVIII, which Investcorp upsized from €400 million

Chenavari Euro CLO brings another co-placement agent role for Standard Chartered
JP Morgan was lead arranger and co-arranger on Chenavari’s latest €307.4 million deal, named Toro European CLO 8, with Standard Chartered a co-placement agent

Global CLO trading lab: Payments season prompts equity to surge but short-dated bonds trade low
Over the last two weeks, $2.8 billion of US CLOs and €640 million of European CLO paper have appeared on b-wics, with equity making up 33% and 40% of the respective markets

CLOs at a glance (January 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Three managers think alike with refis of two-year European CLOs
Three European CLO managers hit the primary market on Friday to print two-year refinancings. This deal profile has been popular of late with seven such deals pricing in little over a month

Morgan Stanley prints Euro CLO refis for Chenavari and GoldenTree
Morgan Stanley partially refinanced two 2019 vintage European CLOs managed by Chenavari and GoldenTree yesterday, adding €609 million to the arranger’s 2021 volume

Chenavari pairs with Barclays for second Euro CLO reset in a month
-Barclays arranged the €373.75 million transaction yesterday, marking a second time partnership for the pair this month

Siaci €202 million loan to leave CLOs after merger as new debt guided in low 400s
Burrus has outlined price talk on an €850 million loan backing its acquisition and merger with Siaci, a popular CLO credit

Blackstone, Chenavari, CIFC and Five Arrows add €2 billion to weekly Euro CLO issuance
Nearly €2 billion of European CLO issuance priced this week, with Blackstone, Chenavari, CIFC and Five Arrows adding to Napier Park’s reset earlier in the week

Ucits at a glance: Altana moves into pole position
March marked a drop in pace for Ucits funds as only 62% of funds made positive returns, compared to 80% in February

Tabula makes series of hires for active credit fund launch
A new arm of independent investment manager and fixed income ETF provider Tabula Investment Management has made four hires as it looks to launch actively managed credit strategies with a systematic approach

Chenavari returns to CLO primary with first new issue in 16 months
Chenavari has returned to the CLO primary market with its first new issue deal since July 2019

CLO pipeline: New issuance pause ends as managers look to gain from rallying spreads
It is two and a half weeks since the last US CLO new issue priced, but that is set to change and Bridgepoint’s debut European transaction on Friday brought an end to Europe’s own two-and-a-half-week primary break

There will surely be jewels in the high yield dung heap, but the risk-reward is more compelling in IG
Whatever the long-term effects of the pandemic, one thing stays the same: IG looks attractive

Listed credit fund sheds CLO triple As
Chenavari's listed credit fund, Chenavari Toro Income Fund Limited, has sold European CLO triple A paper to raise cash to answer margin calls related to CLO warehouse and CLO triple A repo exposures

Fund performance: Long-short funds rule in October as CLO funds struggle
A round-up of fund performance

Euro CLO league tables: refi market opens up to give KKR best of both worlds
European CLO issuance in October crossed €5 billion for the second month this year as managers took advantage of falling spreads and increased demand. In one example, KKR obtained tight senior CLO financing to go with tight mezz spreads from 2017 in a demonstration of expert timing