Join the debate: CLO ramp-up failings
“There is one manager out there that has got away with this behaviour for several years. The ‘fight back’ from investors is overdue”

CLO boom encourages new ideas
Volumes are up, spreads are down and risk retention is a doddle. That must mean it’s time to push the boat out and innovate

Spotlight: Local exchange carriers - calling for rescue on the M&A hotline
Growth-starved US phone companies are seeing consolidation as the best way to improve performance

Leading fund: Lupus Alpha CLO Opportunity Notes I
Single-B CLO trades boost Lupus Alpha asset Management

German direct lending will grow for two decades
Patrimonium’s Daniel Heine takes our credit quiz

CSAM scores rare double-digit final return for pre-crisis euro CLO
Credit Suisse Asset Management yesterday completed its first redemption of a European CLO, a rare deal that has made uninterrupted distributions to equity since before the crisis

New credit fund manager Caius posts 20%-plus returns for 2017
Recently launched credit fund manager Caius Capital has put in spectacular returns so far in 2017, according to investor sources

Debtwire ABS round-up: euro RMBS spreads reach new tights
Spreads have been tightening across the structured credit market; a weekly round-up by Debtwire highlights how an RMBS deal, Residential Mortgage Securities 30, priced at the tightest levels since the financial crisis

Global raters dodged a bullet from the “Catalan Madoff”
At least one global rating agency dodged a bullet by declining to rate a Spanish fund backed by small and mid-market loans that is now being put into liquidation

Investors call time on Investcorp's 2006 European CLO
Investcorp Credit Management has redeemed the third European CLO the team launched when they were part of Mizuho in April 2006

Scio liquidates structured credit fund after posting 11.5% returns
London-based structured credit specialist manager Scio Capital has announced that is liquidating one of its funds and returning capital to investors

CLO round-up: volumes spike as secondary market bursts into life
Junior CLO spreads are tightening in the secondary market amid an uptick in volumes. The primary market has not been slow this week either as CBAM launches a $1.25 billion and three other CLOs price on Friday

There are reasons to be upbeat, MEP tells securitisation specialists
IMN's 21st Annual Global ABS conference opened yesterday on a note of cautious optimism for the European securitisation market

Points up front: dying question
The delicate reason, why it may not be possible to call a CLO..

Investors agree wind-up call for KKR euro CLO 1.0
Investors have approved a plan that will allow KKR Credit to wind down a poorly performing 2006 European CLO

CLO round-up: Columbia and CSAM produce 100%-plus annualised distributions
Amidst the reset and refi environment, Columbia Management and Credit Suisse Asset Management have pleased the equity investors in their CLOs by delivering 100%-plus annualised payments in May

French financial trades boost European credit hedge funds
Credit hedge funds that play in European financials have posted big gains on French bank credit ahead of this month’s presidential elections.

CLO round up: manager tiering hits US market
New issuance volumes overtook those of refinanced deals in the CLO market last week. $1.63 billion of new issue printed in the US

Alva's 'disruptive' fund joins Creditflux listings
A London-based manager is making waves with a tech-focused credit fund

Investing ethically is worth it
Managers could see less volatile returns as a result of their increasing adoption of ESG-friendly portfolios; meanwhile direct lending is spreading across Europe

Who cares about risk retention?
Managers watching CLO spreads reach their tightest levels since the crisis had little time to fret about US risk retention

The seven deadly sins of credit fund reporting
Writing investor reports can be a thankless task, but there are ways to avoid the most sinful errors

They said it
Waiting game is over

Boutique CLO managers boss secondary market
Creditflux analysis shows that, when their total assets are taken into account, small managers' CLOs are more liquid than those of large managers