Points up front: Who is going into the Creditflux interview room?
The Creditflux CLO Symposium brought together 620 market participants from across the globe, and they had one question on their lips: what’s going on in the Creditflux interview room?

"Wholesale moves into risk areas after internal changes should sound an alarm"
The composition of CLO managers is changing, so management styles may drift  

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

Franklin Templeton buys Alcentra in $700 million deal
Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy BNY Mellon’s $38 billion credit unit Alcentra, which will see Alcentra combined with Franklin Templeton’s US credit manager Benefit Street Partners

Antares hires bank's US CLO structuring head
Antares Capital has hired an experienced figure to structure its own CLOs and work on other financings. This follows Redding Ridge making a similar hire this month

A&O CLO team aims to raise money for global charity with 792km journey
The team is collectively aiming to run, walk, cycle or swim a total distance of 792km throughout June for the firm's global charity partner Street Child. That's the distance tens, if not hundreds of thousands of children will have made on their the journey from Kyiv to the Polish border

Blackstone names senior Anchorage official as head of Asia Pacific origination
Blackstone Credit has hired a senior official from Anchorage to work lead Asia Pacific origination out of Sydney 

US CLO manager moves into Europe with Jefferies picking up arranger mandate
A US CLO manager is plotting to expand across to Europe, adding to the region's growing CLO manager base. The firm will assign its US CLO portfolio managers with global duties, while a partner in London becomes a regional PM 

Fair Oaks adds to credit, CLO and marketing team in London
Fair Oaks Capital has hired three people to its investment team and two to its marketing team

Experienced US CLO banker leaves Citi ahead of Redding Ridge move
Redding Ridge Asset Management is adding more CLO banking experience to its team with a big hire from Citi 

SMBC brings in experienced CLO trader after departure
SMBC Nikko has filled a gap on its CLO trading desk 

CLO specialist joins Barrow Hanley in first full-time PM job
Barrow Hanley Global Investors is gearing up for its first US CLO by adding a portfolio manager to its team in Texas

400 hires to London structured credit team
400 Capital has hired a former Citi official to its structured credit investment team in London

European CLO trading head leaves BNP for new credit fund manager
An experienced European structured credit trader is joining a recently launched long-short credit fund manager 

Sound Point promotes duo to lead US CLOs as veteran PM steps down
Sound Point has allocated responsibility for the US loan and CLO platforms to the pair as lead portfolio managers

Eagle Point hires for defensive income strategy team
Eagle Point Capital Management has hired an associate, responsible for assisting the defensive income strategy senior investment team

Fidelity International makes senior direct lending hires in private credit push
Fidelity International has been staffing up in European direct lending, with 12 additions to the private credit team that was established a year ago

Convertibles specialist moves into CLO management with Apollo support
Convertible bonds specialist Advent Capital Management is moving into US CLO management with support from Apollo Global Management  

Novicap names new CEO in leadership shuffle as it sets targets for credit division
Novicap, a fintech company offering working capital optimisation solutions to SMEs and mid-market corporates, has shuffled its leadership structure and set a €1 billion cumulative volume target for its credit division by the end of this year

Cairn signals US credit ambitions by hiring CLO PM from GSAM
Cairn Capital has hired a CLO portfolio manager to lead the firm’s US leveraged credit business

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

Tech firm eyes data-driven approach to CLO management
As New York-based tech firm Exos prepares to launch what it calls “the first truly tech-enabled CLO”, the specialist leading its efforts says technology could soon play a central role in CLO portfolio optimisation

Top macro credit PM will fly solo with fund launch
A new credit investment firm could soon be in the offing, following the departure of Alberto Gallo from Algebris Investments in April, suggest market sources

Points up front: Italian international tackles banking after rugby
In his latest column, on page 21, Thomas Majewski draws similarities between the CLO market and a youth soccer game. Turns out there might also be parallels between investment banking and rugby

Mizuho CLO trader rejoins Deutsche Bank
A CLO trader and executive director has resigned from Mizuho to rejoin Deutsche Bank