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Beneath the triple C: CLOs benefit as upgrades make for lighter triple C buckets
6 days ago
For the first time since the sell off in March last year, downgrades to triple C have come to a near-standstill -
Goldman refis 2013 and 2017 CLOs for Axa IM and Napier Park
1 month ago
Goldman Sachs flexed its CLO refinancing muscles on Tuesday, arranging very different cost-cutting deals for Axa Investment Managers and Napier Park Global -
Moving fast pays off for hedge funds
1 month ago
2020 was an up and down year in credit, and credit hedge fund managers had to move quickly to capture opportunities from the dislocations that inevitably opened up -
Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
1 month ago
New year, same funds leading the way with CLO strategies the top performers in January -
Napier Park looks to gain from re-tiering after strong US CLO execution
2 months ago
Napier Park Global Capital appears to be benefiting from its performance over the last year with the firm achieving a strong print on a new US CLO, Regatta XVIII Funding -
CLO pipeline: snow business like the CLO business
2 months ago
CLO issuers are putting aside the cold snap and are warming up with a flurry of deals. -
Early 2021 moves open up CLO and credit curve dislocations
2 months ago
Fund managers are keeping a close watch on credit curves as sharp moves since the start of December have forced relative value to shift between corporate bonds, CDS, CLOs and loans. This has put CDS curve steepeners in focus but, conversely, CLO flattening appears likely. -
Fund performance: CLO funds keep up momentum as Napier Park finishes top
2 months ago
2020 ended with funds in our CLOs category taking the top few spots -
Napier Park fund ends 2020 on top with massive 29.5% gain
2 months ago
Napier Park Global Capital stormed to the top of our credit hedge fund rankings for 2020, registering a gain of 29.49% through Napier Park Eton Fund. -
European CLO mezz tightens as Napier Park prices
2 months ago
Napier Park priced its fourth European CLO today, Henley CLO IV, which has notched up the second-tightest cost of debt since March - and tightest for a deal with single B debt -
Credit Rendezvous: heading for homes
2 months ago
Fund managers in structured credit, real assets and distressed are bullish on the prospects for residential housing in 2021. Elsewhere, niche royalty-based strategies are in favour and although a CLO repricing wave is expected, it may not be easy to execute resets. For more, read our 13-page quarterly report on credit. -
2020 wrap: CLO funds bloom despite rocky ground
3 months ago
2020 was a busy year for CLO fundraising, with Creditflux recording at least 30 funds that launched over the 12 months to invest across the CLO capital structure -
Napier Park flexible credit fund powers to 17.8% gains in 2020
4 months ago
A European credit fund run by Napier Park Global Capital is up 17.8% in 2020 through to the end of October to sit atop of the list of funds by that metric -
Points up front: Brushing up on CLOs
4 months ago
It’s that time of year when CLO analysts forecast 2021 CLO volumes. It’s a thankless task, but for Serhan Secmen, head of CLOs at Napier Park Global Capital, losing a wager with a US CLO structurer on CLO volumes in 2015 meant he had to create a work of art on a triathlon theme -
Napier Park prices five-year reinvestment CLO via BNP Paribas
5 months ago
Napier Park Global has teamed up with BNP Paribas to issue a new five-year reinvestment CLO -
CLO pipeline: fixed income giants plan debut 2.0s with Morgan Stanley
6 months ago
Two large fixed income managers are pre-marketing debut 2.0 CLOs -
Napier Park completes second euro CLO post-covid
6 months ago
Napier Park Global has priced its second European CLO post-covid, teaming up with BNP Paribas to issue the €353 million Henley CLO III on Wednesday -
Fund performance: A third of funds reach positive territory in 2020
6 months ago
August has been another successful month for the CLO category as seven of the top 10 funds invest primarily in CLOs -
Napier Park plans second European CLO in four months
6 months ago
Napier Park Global is set to price its third European CLO, Henley CLO III, with the transaction anticipated to price next week -
LP round up: $5 billion flows to credit as private market allocations increase
6 months ago
Global institutional investors allocated nearly $5 billion to credit funds this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
Don’t obsess over the state of your OC cushions
8 months ago
During Creditflux’s live CLO webinar last month, panellists agreed that fighting to keep an over-collateralisation test in compliance could do more harm than good in the long term -
They said it: "Imagine a garden party and all of a sudden a big wasp shows up"
8 months ago
On Creditflux’s US CLO webinar last month, Napier Park’s head of US CLO investments Serhan Secmen described the March sell-off as a garden party -
Creditflux explores cure for CLO test breaches in today's live virtual briefing
9 months ago
What, if anything, managers should be doing to correct test breaches is the subject for our next live virtual briefing, held today on 9 July at 11am ET. -
Euro CLO league tables: fresh faces emerge with new deals
10 months ago
May was a month of fresh faces as three new managers entered the ring for the first time in 2020 -
Napier Park brings covid-era European CLO volumes to €1.5 billion
10 months ago
Napier Park Global today became the sixth CLO issuer in Europe since the onset of the pandemic, according to market sources, bringing volumes on the continent since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic to over €1.5 billion
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