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

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

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  

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

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

Proskauer hires private credit partner as it expands in Chicago
Proskauer has appointed the first partner in the firm’s Chicago office

Churchill hires Antares official to lead new Los Angeles office
Churchill Asset Management has hired a managing director in origination, responsible for leading the new Los Angeles office

Blue Owl hires CLO structurer in New York
Blue Owl Capital Management has hired to its CLO structuring team in New York

US CLO structuring head to leave Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse’s head of US CLO structuring is understood to be leaving the bank after nearly 10 years

Experienced CLO investor set to join Carlyle in New York
Carlyle Group is making a big hire to its CLO investment team in New York 

JP Morgan splits global head of institutional structuring role as it promotes three
JP Morgan has rejigged part of its credit structuring business with a set of promotions for officials who have covered SRTs, CLOs and CSOs as part of cross-asset roles

Sycamore Tree hires two senior managing directors in marketing roles
Sycamore Tree Capital Partners has hired Amanda Montgomery and Marc Gonyea as managing directors

Z Capital makes three senior leveraged credit hires including CLO specialists
Z Capital Credit has hired three directors to its investment team

Former JP Morgan CIO head of CLO investments lands at big asset manager
An experienced CLO investor, known for buying triple A rated CLO paper for over a decade, has landed at an asset management firm

Northleaf hires to private credit team in Chicago
Northleaf Capital Partners has hired an associate within the firm’s private credit team

Benefit Street hires managing director to lead software and tech private debt origination
Benefit Street Partners has hired a former AB official as managing director to lead the firm’s software and technology private debt origination

Brightwood expands risk and underwriting teams with two hires
Brightwood Capital Advisors has made two fresh hires to its risk and underwriting departments

Oaktree seeks US-based head of CLO capital markets
Oaktree Capital Management is looking to hire a head of CLO, capital markets, with the US-based person working alongside Oaktree’s US senior loans and CLO strategy

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

They said it: "I feel vindicated..."
Dallas-based Patrick Daugherty says “it was worth it”, after his settlement with Highland

Points up front: Celebrating par — that definitely isn’t par for the course
The head of securitised credit at Schroders, Michelle Russell-Dowe, recently posted on LinkedIn that her grandmother had turned par (100 years old)...