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Manulife Investment agrees deal to buy CQS
4 months ago
Manulife Investment Management, the global wealth and asset management portion of Manulife Financial Corporation, has agreed to buy London-based alternative credit manager CQS, including the CQS credit platform and CQS brand -
Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling partners affirm merger
5 months ago
The partnership will help both firms expand internationally while changing the legal landscape -
Aegon agrees to buy NIBC's CLO platform
11 months ago
Aegon Asset Management has agreed to buy NIBC’s North Westerly European CLO platform, which includes three deals alongside the NIBC CLO team -
Sound Point to take on Assured's asset management business in new partnership
11 months ago
Assured Guaranty and Sound Point Capital Management have struck up a partnership, according to an announcement, which will make Sound Point the fifth largest CLO manager globally. -
First Sentier buys majority stake in credit firm AlbaCore
1 year ago
First Sentier Investors has bought a majority stake in European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group, the firms announced today, after identifying alternative credit as a ‘strategically important space’ -
Sound Point holding CLO M&A talks which could catapult it to fifth-largest manager
1 year ago
Sound Point Capital Management is locked in talks with a large, global CLO manager over a deal that could take its CLO AUM north of $36 billion -
Franklin Templeton wraps up deal for $35bn Alcentra
1 year ago
Franklin Templeton has completed its acquisition of BNY Mellon’s $35 billion credit unit Alcentra -
Nuveen strikes deal to buy European direct lender Arcmont
1 year ago
Nuveen has reached an agreement to buy a controlling stake in European credit manager Arcmont Asset Management -
PE firm Nile buys minority stake in Prytania AM
1 year ago
Nile Capital Group has bought a minority stake in a structured credit specialist -
Apollo and Pimco buy ‘significant portion’ of Credit Suisse's securitised products group
1 year ago
The move has prompted a rally for Credit Suisse, which on Thursday unveiled a strategic review “designed to reduce risk-weighted assets and leverage exposure” -
Apollo reaches for bigger slice of pi(e) with 5% Diameter stake
1 year ago
Apollo Global Management has bought a 5% stake in credit fund and CLO manager Diameter Capital Partners, cementing the relationship between the firms -
"Wholesale moves into risk areas after internal changes should sound an alarm"
1 year ago
The composition of CLO managers is changing, so management styles may drift -
Franklin Templeton buys Alcentra in $700 million deal
1 year ago
Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy BNY Mellon’s $38 billion credit unit Alcentra, which will see Alcentra combined with Franklin Templeton’s US credit manager Benefit Street Partners -
Carlyle closes CBAM transaction to become largest CLO manager in the world
1 year ago
Carlyle Group has closed a deal to buy the assets of CBAM and has become the largest CLO manager in the world -
CBAM: star power, friends in insurance, and doing things 'my way'
2 years ago
"And now the end is here, and so I face that final curtain... I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and every highway, And more, much more
I did it, I did it my way". Sinatra could easily have been thinking of CBAM when he penned these lyrics. We look back at how a group of experienced CLO officials came together to launch a mega player in the CLO business in no time at all -
MV expands into CLO management as it absorbs Natixis IM private debt team
2 years ago
The Natixis IM-affiliate has expanded into CLO management by absorbing Ostrum Asset Management’s former private debt team, in conjunction with the opening of a Paris office -
Spac pricing hints at Sound Point's growth ambitions in loan market
2 years ago
Sound Point Acquisition Corp has priced a $225 million IPO, signalling that credit asset manager Sound Point Capital Management is looking to expand its platform -
Whitestar swoops for US CLOs as it readies European deals
2 years ago
MacKay Shields has completed its exit from CLO management after it emerged that the asset manager has transferred the rights to two of its US CLOs to Whitestar Asset Management -
KKR and PGIM among bidders to buy Alcentra: Bloomberg
2 years ago
BNY Mellon is set to offload its credit investment unit Alcentra, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter -
Gapstow expects strategic deals as credit manager M&A volume slumps to $120 billion
2 years ago
M&A volume involving credit asset managers dropped last year with total target value assets under management slumping to $120 billion from $149 billion in 2020 (and $254 billion in 2019), according to Gapstow Capital Partners -
WhiteStar to absorb MacKay Shields' European CLO platform
2 years ago
WhiteStar Asset Management has swooped for MacKay Shields’ European CLO business, ending weeks of speculation over the latter’s CLO ambitions and confirming WhiteStar's status as a rising star -
Commerzbank CLO triple A investors approve Cross Ocean management rights transfer
2 years ago
The controlling class in Commerzbank Debt Fund’s Bosphorus CLO V and VI have agreed to Cross Ocean Investment Advisors taking over management of the deals, leaving equity investors such as Chenavari a few days to decide on the switch -
T Rowe Price to buy Oak Hill for up to $4.2 billion
2 years ago
Oak Hill is set to become T Rowe Price’s private markets platform, led by Oak Hill’s chief executive officer Glenn August -
Commerzbank CLO platform sale nears end as new entrant closes in
2 years ago
A new entrant could be about to make a breakthrough in European CLO management later this month, as Commerzbank Debt Fund Management looks close to wrapping up the sale of its CLO platform -
Vontobel takes full ownership of TwentyFour after bringing forward acquisition plan
2 years ago
Vontobel says that it owns all of TwentyFour Asset Management after fast-tracking a plan to top up its previous 60% stake in the structured credit fund manager
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