Octagon plans its first 40 Act credit fund with 50% bucket for CLOs
Octagon Credit Investors is working on what could become one of the first closed-end fund listings by an alternative credit manager in recent years

Loan total return swaps make their way to Europe following US success
Total return swaps have become a popular way to finance portfolios of US leveraged loans in recent years. And now the product may be about to make it big in Europe too.

New York insurer brings in corporate credit portfolio manager
Corporate credit portfolio manager joins insurer after 12 years at PartnersRe

Goldman hires Barclays trader to co-head European flow credit
Goldman Sachs is continuing to revamp its credit business in London with an experienced credit trader joining the bank as co-head of European credit flow trading

Eiffel proves you don’t need to guess oil prices to pick good oil bonds
Paris-based manager benefits from tertiary link to oil bounce with helicopter pick 

Ex-GoldenTree partner lands at Brigade to fortify its European CLO plans
There is a change of leadership at Brigade's London offices with an experienced portfolio manager filling a position that had recently opened up

Citi snaps up trader in London as musical chairs continues in financials
In the hottest job market in credit right now, Citi poaches from HSBC

Fifth Street shuffle: loan manager brings in former Apollo CIO
Fifth Street Asset Management has taken on Patrick Dalton, previously chief executive of asset-based lender Gordon Brothers Finance, as co-president

GSO gains approvals to push long-short fund further into long territory
A GSO long-short credit fund  - with no short exposure as of the end of June - has been granted a license to permit more long exposure

JP Morgan and Credit Suisse pick up loan traders in London
JP Morgan and Credit Suisse play musical chairs with loan traders in London 

Jobs market heats up as EM funds outperform
Emerging market credit has been the top performing asset class in the hedge fund industry this year

Citi hires for financials credit sales amid market volatility
As financial markets are on the tip of everyone’s tongue, Citi picks up experienced sales specialist

RBS poaches European corporate credit trader
An experienced credit trader has joined RBS in London

Morgan Stanley rehires former employee for credit index trading role
Credit trader returns to Morgan Stanley in New York to trade macro credit in indices and options 

Experienced credit analyst leaves Bain's distressed team in London
Bain has been one of the most active asset managers in the distressed credit space in recent years, but sources say that it has suffered  a setback with an experienced credit analyst said to have left in recent weeks

Middle East manager targets private credit following big-name hire
Private equity firm Abraaj Group hires for push into credit

Credit sales departures hit Citi’s London offices
Citi loses five experienced credit sales specialists in London 

BlueCrest turns heads with major credit hire from BlueMountain
Once a blue, always a blue: a long-short credit manager has switched between two of the largest alternative credit managers in the business