Credit hedge funds – May 2025
Credit hedge fund performance

Credit funds at a glance – May 2025
Our roundup of top performers, fundraising and moves in credit

CLOs at a glance – June 2025
Our list of recent CLO pricings globally

Nascent European CLO ETF market could catch up to US—S&P
Positive European sentiment will help drive European ETF adoption, according to a new report

Former Investcorp Credit CEO Jeremy Ghose joins The Chatterjee Group
Ghose told Creditflux that his role as President would be a strategic one that “looked to enhance the enterprise value” of the overall group, with the aim of boosting cash flow to develop the firm’s philanthropic operations

State Street Investment Management eyes CLO entrance
The traditional asset manager is planning to launch a new CLO business, sources familiar tell Creditflux.

Sound Point hires former Alcentra president as CFO steps down
CFO Kevin Gerlitz is retiring from the role after 16 years

Blackstone hires Laura Coady from Jefferies to head CLO business
The alternative asset manager has poached Jefferies's top CLO banker to become its global head of CLOs and head its European liquid credit strategies

CLOs to maintain strong performance, offer attractive carry opportunities – Goldman Sachs
The asset class offers an appealing investment given underlying fundamentals and narrowing IG spreads, according to an investment outlook briefing from the firm this week

Squarepoint makes moves to debut as CLO manager
EXCLUSIVE: Global investment firm has been interviewing candidates to launch a CLO business 

Investors say CLO market is hot but caution remains
Optimism is returning to the CLO market in both the US and Europe and momentum is rapidly rebuilding, as investors acclimatise to the policy vagaries of the second Trump administration

‘Opportunities will present themselves’
Investor's Corner with Kathy Sutherland, GoldenTree CEO

News in brief
US credit returns fail to reflect risk

Mapping the present and future of credit
Keynote speakers at this year’s Creditflux Symposium highlighted the success of credit markets during recent volatility and argued that a wave of securitisation could drive growth in Europe

GoldenTree snaps up global award... again
Last year, GoldenTree was named Creditflux Global Manager of the Year. This year it repeated that achievement — but it also swooped for our US manager of the year and closed-end fund awards

We made it through to the other side
LMEs and Trump tariffs were hot topics at the Creditflux CLO Symposium 2025. But managers agreed that the market has survived — and maybe even thrived — through recent volatility

As direct lenders seek efficient, scalable financing tools, private credit CLOs are growing fast
PCLOs have reached USD 135bn, or 13% of the overall CLO market

The market will not look kindly on managers that don’t reset their deals
In today’s CLO market, the choice is stark: reset or slowly perish

Credit hedge funds – April 2025
Credit hedge fund performance

Credit funds at a glance – April 2025
Our roundup of top performers, fundraising and moves in credit

CLOs at a glance – May 2025
Our list of recent CLO pricings globally

Benefit Street Partners raises USD 500m for captive US CLO equity fund
BSP will use the capital to fund as many as 20 US CLOs during the next four years

The M&A market is normalising – Ares’ Matt Theodorakis
PODCAST: “People are looking to do deals going forward” after taking a pause following ‘Liberation Day’, Theodorakis told Lisa Lee, managing editor at Creditflux, on the latest Credit Exchange podcast

CLO markets enter “new regime of volatility” – BNP Paribas research

Donald Trump’s tariffs could make CLOs more volatile, while potential oversupply and weakening fundamentals could hit spreads. Primary triple-As, IG mezz, and quality long-dated CLO equity “attractive”

US CLO spreads to widen as uncertainty and tariffs bite – JPMorgan
Higher US tariff levels may lead to CLO spreads widening and pressure US CLO market growth, but new origination has been more resilient than expected, according to JPMorgan analysts in their mid-year CLO outlook report