Private equity firms are becoming CLO converts: TwentyFour
Private equity firms have increasingly bought CLO and other securitised debt tranches in recent weeks instead of their usual preference for physical assets - a trade TwentyFour believes "makes perfect sense"

Aristotle boosts credit business with Pacific AM acquisition
Pacific Life Insurance Company has agreed to sell its credit asset manager – Pacific Asset Management – to Aristotle Capital Management

Angelo Gordon makes senior hire to cater to insurance company investors
Angelo Gordon is expanding into investment solutions for insurance companies after hiring from JP Morgan 

Fidelity Investments eyes CLOs as part of multi-strategy credit fund
Fidelity Investments is preparing to launch a new multi-strategy credit fund, which will “opportunistically rotate across the entire credit spectrum”

US managers recalibrate as Euro CLO portfolio spreads rise: Moody's
CLO managers have had to readjust this year and data from Moody’s Investor Services shows weighted average rating factor scores for all US CLOs have held steady, while weighted average spreads have dropped 0.15%

CIFC hires Carlyle's credit investor relations head
CIFC Asset Management has hired T Michael Johnson as managing director and co-head of business development

What matters is what you do with it
CLO managers yearn for flexibility so they can take advantage when credit sells off. But it isn’t enough on its own: triple C-flex CLOs saw portfolios erode this year, while CBOs outperformed

Investors tipped to take on key role in growth of CFOs
It’s early days in the renaissance of the market for collateralised fund obligations (CFOs), but market participants are looking forward to how the product will evolve.

Warning signs flash as B3 share of loans reaches record level
Credit analysts are sounding the alarm as the portion of the loan and high yield universe rated B3 or B- surged to a record level in the third quarter

Patchy primary market slows European take-outs
European CLO issuance is reaching a crossroads, with several warehouses ramped while the path to the primary market is hazardous.

Fund performance: August provides much-needed relief for CLO funds
.August fund performance 

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

   

Credit hedge funds (October 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

   

Blackstone scores record with century of US CLOs
Blackstone Credit has become the first manager to price 100 US CLOs, following the printing of Storm King Park CLO in August

Points up front: Exhibit A: every single CLO slide deck ever
In a recent note, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners said they needed “more data to showcase that CLO pools have outperformed the loan market”

"There is ample time and flexibility on the pathway from warehouse to securitisation"
A big loan sell-off does not mean CLO warehouses will be forced to liquidate  

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

US loan index falls below 92 to almost wipe out gains since July
The S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index sank to an average bid of 91.92 cents by Monday, down by two points in as many weeks, wiping out almost all the gains seen in the late-summer market rally

Nerves of steel needed for CLOs as Phoenix Services files for chapter 11
CLOs hold $341.54 million of steel service provider Phoenix Services Topco which filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware yesterday

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

Axa IM plots Euro CLO warehouse investment amid loan pressure and possible liquidations
Some European CLO warehouse may face liquidations and there will be further pressure on leveraged loans in the last quarter of the year, according to Axa Investment Management

Revlon mistaken payment ruling adheres to market norms: LSTA
The Loan Syndications & Trading Association has weighed in on the Revlon court ruling, which stated that Revlon lenders must return a mistaken payment by Citi, noting that this decision “conforms to long-standing norms"

European IG CLO mezz is attractive versus US paper: Barclays
There is no reason for European CLO mezzanine tranches to be as wide as they are versus equivalent US paper, according to a strategy note from Barclays.