Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs),  Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. 

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

   

It’s going to be a credit picker’s market
Our panel of experts believe that the credit market will be volatile this year, but there will be opportunities in European credit and additional tier one bonds, trups CDOs and unitranches

The perception of liquidity is often not the same as the reality
Investec Asset Management's Jeff Boswell takes our credit quiz and discusses liquidity in Europe, the former "darling of the European debt market" Vivarte and the Matrix

Investec unveils unconstrained global credit fund for UK investors
“In a world of rising interest rates, and with the accompanying increase in volatility", Investec has launched a replica of its Investec Global Total Credit Fund - this time for UK investors

Nomura and Investec report 48% gender pay gap
With the deadline for UK companies to publish their gender pay gap reports looming at midnight tonight, a slew of asset management firms have filed reports showing male employees are paid up to 49% more than their female counterparts

Investec hires former GSAM official to its UK strategic client group
Investec Asset Management has further expanded its UK institutional presence with hire of Alastair Leather, who was previously an executive director at Goldman

Investec AM announces leadership succession plan
Investec Asset Management has announced its leadership succession plans following the retirement of Investec Group's chief executive officer and managing director

Investec confirms that ICG portfolio managers will join its asset manager
Investec Asset Management has confirmed that two former ICG portfolio managers are due to join the firm in London early next year.

ICG's senior PMs make shock move to CLO manager in London
Intermediate Capital Group, one of Europe's largest credit managers, has been hit by the defections of two key portfolio managers to a credit firm that has lost a large number of professionals in the last 12 months