Capital Four prints two-year ESG European CLO
Capital Four has become the latest European CLO manager to print a short-dated new issue, with JP Morgan arranging the €351.6 million deal, named Capital Four Euro CLO IV

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

Minority equity available in Capital Four's forthcoming short-dated Euro CLO
JP Morgan is marketing Capital Four Management’s latest European ESG CLO, anticipated to price at the end of this week or beginning of next week

Capital Four expands in Europe with Frankfurt office
Capital Four has expanded its presence in Europe by opening a Frankfurt office

Capital Four hires senior US credit trader
Capital Four has hired a senior credit trader in its New York office

Fund performance: Groundhog Day as 2021 leaders start strong
CLO funds once again claim the most top performing spots as seven out of 10 funds belong to the category

CLOs at a glance (January 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Capital Four becomes seventh debut US CLO manager of 2021
Capital Four has become the latest debutant in the US CLO market by printing its first transaction via JP Morgan on Friday

US CLO pipeline: Carlyle and Blackstone aim for CLO-a-month 2021 as BlackRock goes for baker's quadruple
The Thanksgiving holiday has not dampened the US CLO market’s appetite as a flurry of deals are set to price in the next couple of weeks. That includes 18 new deals, 11 resets and seven refinancings in the US

It's All Relative: CQS, Capital Four and Tikehau look for CLO breakthrough as debutant premiums drop
The number of US CLO issuers in 2021 could be about to reach 106 with Capital Four, CQS and Tikehau looking to price debut deals, with price talk set at ambitious levels

CLO managers join forces as they line up behind SFDR
A plethora of European CLO managers have teamed up with regulatory reporting provider FinDox to form a working group focused on Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), sources tell Creditflux.

The Last Tranche with Capital Four: 26% of new European loans have an ESG-linked margin ratchet, and the US could follow fast
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Capital Four's Torben Skødeberg and Jim Wiant discuss the emergence of loans linked to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria

Fund performance: CLOs lead but variety is the spice of life
.An assortment of funds have made their mark in August as five different strategies make it into our top 10 for the month

CLO triple As hit 102bp again as Capital Four becomes 42nd manager to print European CLO
Capital Four has become the 42^nd manager to price a new issue European CLO this year after partnering with Bank of America to produce Capital Four CLO III

Capital Four prepares for US CLO debut with four more hires
Capital Four says it has hired four team members to its New York-based US credit team as it expands its capabilities across the Atlantic

Credit funds at a glance (August 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Capital Four adds three to new US CLO/high yield team
Capital Four has fleshed out its new US credit platform with three hires and another four on the way

Woah, we’re halfway there
Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform

MidOcean CLO PM joins European credit manager to lead US expansion
Former MidOcean Credit CLO portfolio manager Jim Wiant has joined a Copenhagen-headquartered manager to lead the firm's US expansion

Axa IM leads as ESG grows in European CLO industry
European CLOs are increasingly launching with express ESG mandates embedded as issuers seek to get ahead of what appears to be an inevitable shift towards ethical investing

Credit Rendezvous: heading for homes
Fund managers in structured credit, real assets and distressed are bullish on the prospects for residential housing in 2021. Elsewhere, niche royalty-based strategies are in favour and although a CLO repricing wave is expected, it may not be easy to execute resets. For more, read our 13-page quarterly report on credit. 

Capital Four prices second European CLO with triple As at 105bp
Capital Four priced its second ever European CLO today named Capital Four CLO II. Barclays arranged the €356.2 million transaction

Capital Four markets four-year European CLO
Capital Four is marketing its second European CLO, just over a year after making its debut in CLO management

Europe’s newcomers find ways to stand out
Last year’s new European CLO managers needed to provide something different for investors. In general, they’ve succeeded, with Capital Four having one of the smallest overlap figures in our data

Capital Four launches two CLO funds
Capital Four Management has plans to launch two structured credit funds focused on CLOs  that aim to capitalise on dislocation at both ends of the CLO capital stack, sources say