Barings strikes strategic partnership agreement with Lakemore to support CLO issuance
Barings has entered into a strategic partnership with Lakemore Partners to support the growth of the manager's CLO platform

CLO market turns international as new investors land
The global CLO market attracted new investors over the first quarter of 2023, according to market sources, while others have moved across the capital stack or into different regions than those to which they have been accustomed

Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs),  Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. 

Fund performance: Credit funds end difficult 2022 on a positive note
In December 66% of credit funds reached a positive return, following an even better November where 81% of all funds pushed into the black

Credit funds at a glance (February 2023)
A round up of people moves and fundraising

Senior Investcorp official lands at wealth manager
A well-known name in the CLO industry has landed at a wealth management firm 

Fund performance: Light at the end of the tunnel for credit funds after difficult year
Following a tough September, credit funds bounced back in October as 59% of funds made positive returns.

Credit hedge fund returns (December 2023)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (December 2023)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

HIG adds capital raising clout with senior credit and PE hires
HIG Capital has added to its global credit and private equity businesses with three senior appointments

Fund performance: Wake us up when September ends
After a resurgent August, credit markets hit a rough patch in September, with every Creditflux index posting negative returns, and only 12.9% of funds in our listings showing a positive return.

Credit hedge fund returns (November 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

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

Creditflux CLO Census entries near 300 with just two days left to vote
The sixth instalment of Creditflux’s CLO Census is officially the biggest ever with 295 market participants taking part in the CLO industry’s most comprehensive survey

Credit structuring head lands at Deutsche Bank in expanded role
Deutsche Bank has hired former Credit Suisse global credit structuring head Paul Bajer in a broader remit as global co-head of cross asset structuring

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

Impact investor earns $146 million from US body for second CLO
An impact investment firm owned by M&G is poised to launch its second CLO, according to filings seen by Creditflux

"If anything is to be salvaged from the rest of 2022, the economy needs a hero — and quickly"
Something has gotta give as a recession looms in the US. Might it be energy?

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...

JP Morgan holds place as CLO market's largest noteholder
JP Morgan remained the world's largest CLO noteholder at the end of the first quarter, with $59.69 billion invested in the asset class as of 31 March - an increase of $1.11 billion from year-end

Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns

"Faltering oil supply is lamentable at a time of strategic and moral shortfall"
We need to accept the pain and cut dependence on Russian oil today

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