Credit hedge funds (October 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

   

LP round up: $2.7bn flows to 20 credit managers as investors battle PE overallocation
Investors faced huge headwinds in September with inflation, rising interest rates, and geopolitical turmoil, alongside the UK gilts sell-off at month end

Nomura readies multi-strat credit interval fund launch
Nomura Private Capital is readying the launch of a new, closed-ended interval fund which will invest across the credit spectrum - including bonds, loans, CLOs, distressed debt emerging market debt

Euro CLO trader lands at LGT to co-head liquid credit
LGT Capital Partners has hired a former Morgan Stanley European CLO trader as co-head of liquid credit

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

Ucits at a glance: Ucits see red in a tough June for returns
June marked an exceptionally tough month for Ucits funds, as none of those listed in the Creditflux database made it into the black

Credit hedge funds (August 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns  

Fund performance: Select funds shine in dreary June for credit hedge funds
Credit funds suffered through June, as only 8% of listed funds reached the black. This made June the fourth month in a row in which negative returns increased

Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions

Fund performance: Rocky May piles on the misery for credit hedge funds
Negative fund performance soared in May

Credit hedge funds (July 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

Ucits at a glance: LBBW shines as Ucits take a turn for the worse
Ucits fund returns

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

Seeds sewn for carbon credit market to flower into CLOs
Long-time structured credit specialist Jan Phillip Wassenaar has joined start-up NatureCredits as a senior advisor to support the evolving carbon credit industry

Arcmont says liquid loan opportunities depend on timing as it advocates direct lending instead
Arcmont Asset Management has made the case for direct lending over syndicated loans in a white paper, despite having being an admirer of CLO management platforms 

LP round up: 28 credit managers win $6.6 billion as San Diego carves private credit allocation
Pensions allocated over $6.6 billion to credit managers in June including Angelo Gordon, Antares, Apollo, Ares, Beach Point, BioPharma, Brookfield, CarVal, Cerberus...

CEO steps down after DWS greenwashing allegations lead to police raid
A tumultuous 24 hours for DWS Group, in which police and regulators raided its office, has been compounded by the resignation of its chief executive officer Asoka Woehrmann on Wednesday morning

Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
There was more upheaval for credit funds in April, reversing the mini-recovery in March as 40% of funds made positive returns, a decrease on the 47% in March

Credit hedge funds (June 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

   

Ucits at a glance: Diamond shines after dull start to year
Ucits funds have continued to arrest the slide that followed the dip in February, as 37% of funds in April saw positive returns

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

Fund performance: Credit bounces back from February blues
March performance figures were a slight improvement from the market turn in February; 47% of funds made positive returns, an increase on 17% the previous month

Credit hedge funds (May 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns  

Ucits at a glance: Robus stands tall among Ucits funds
27% of Ucits funds had positive returns in March, a slight improvement from 10% in February

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