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 hedge fund returns (February 2023)
Credit hedge fund returns

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

Manager looks to cut HY exposures in CLO-heavy credit interval fund
A credit fund manager has provided a performance update on is multi-strategy closed-end credit fund through regulatory filings, revealing it has beat its benchmark from 1 April to 30 September despite losing 13.66%

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

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

Credit hedge funds (October 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

   

Ucits at a glance: Ucits see red in a tough June for returns
June marked an exceptionally tough month for Ucits funds, as none of those listed in the Creditflux database made it into the black

Credit hedge funds (August 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns  

Fund performance: Select funds shine in dreary June for credit hedge funds
Credit funds suffered through June, as only 8% of listed funds reached the black. This made June the fourth month in a row in which negative returns increased

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

Fund performance: Rocky May piles on the misery for credit hedge funds
Negative fund performance soared in May

Credit hedge funds (July 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

Ucits at a glance: LBBW shines as Ucits take a turn for the worse
Ucits fund returns

Pimco loan ETF finds good entry point for deployment
Pimco’s loan ETF, launched earlier this month appears well positioned to capitalise on the volatility that has hit the loan market in the last two weeks

Hopes of full recovery quashed as credit funds struggle
Optimism about a prolonged recovery after credit hedge funds bounced back in March was dashed as 60% of funds in our database recorded negative returns in April.

Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
There was more upheaval for credit funds in April, reversing the mini-recovery in March as 40% of funds made positive returns, a decrease on the 47% in March

Credit hedge funds (June 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

   

Ucits at a glance: Diamond shines after dull start to year
Ucits funds have continued to arrest the slide that followed the dip in February, as 37% of funds in April saw positive returns

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

Credit hedge funds (May 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns  

Ucits at a glance: Robus stands tall among Ucits funds
27% of Ucits funds had positive returns in March, a slight improvement from 10% in February

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