Tracking down the credit industry’s original winners
All winning managers at the first Creditflux awards survived the crisis, under their own names – like BlackRock – or under new owners. But what happened to the people who collected the trophies?
 

Elliott eyes US CLO business, reports Bloomberg
Elliott Management is looking to build a CLO management platform and has enlisted Brian McNamara from GoldenTree Asset Management as consultant, according to Bloomberg

Barclays makes big hires from Natixis as it plans mid market CLO push
Barclays has hired two managing directors as it looks to establish a middle-market CLO platform in New York

Antares promotes loan specialist Lyne and ex-JP Morgan CLO chief Mathew
Private credit giant Antares Capital has announced that founding partner Timothy Lyne has been appointed senior managing director and co-head of sponsor coverage while Vivek Mathew has been promoted to head asset management and funding

CLO and direct lending specialist hires former GAM director
A Boston-based alternative credit manager has named Christopher Todisco as a new director on the business development team in New York

Freshfields CLO lawyer hired by rival firm in New York
Ryan Suda, who has joined Mayer Brown as a partner, advises financial institutions, asset managers, private equity funds and hedge funds in structured finance transactions and other complex financings

PGIM's Juliano set for promotion to head US loan business
Brian Juliano is set to become the head of PGIM’s US loan management team upon the retirement of Joe Lemanowicz later this year

Tech is benefiting from all the trends that are hurting retail
CBAM's Don Young takes our credit quiz

A credit market in constant flux
Since Creditflux's launch in 2001, we've reported on CLO evolution, trendy new products, regulatory U-turns, and, of course, crashes. Which, we wonder, is coming next?

Making it to the top: women reflect on changes in the CLO industry
As a growing number of women break the glass ceiling and take senior positions in CLO firms, Creditflux asked about the opportunities and challenges they face. By Michelle D’Souza

Global head of CLO trading retires from Goldman Sachs
The global head of CLO trading at Goldman Sachs, Sameer Maru, has retired from the bank after close to two decades

Columbia promotes new leveraged debt head following resignations
Columbia Asset Management announced the promotion following the resignation of Lynn Hopton and Yvonne Stevens earlier this week

Co-heads of CLO and leveraged debt resign from Columbia after CLO sale
Two senior managing directors have resigned from Columbia Asset Management after 18 years at the firm

Three credit specialists part ways with Highland
Three officials have left Highland Capital Management in the last few weeks; a CLO trader and two experienced corporate credit researchers

Former American Capital CLO team resurfaces at Ryan Labs
A group of loan and CLO specialists that previously worked together at American Capital have reunited at Ryan Labs Asset Management.

Boutique US CLO manager hires from KKR as part of expansion into Europe
Credit Value Partners, the US CLO and credit fund manager owned by New York Life Investments, has hired Brian McNamara from KKR Credit Partners

CLO manager bids farewell to distressed debt specialist in New York
A principal at Octagon Credit Investors has left the firm after four years, but the company is tight-lipped about the circumstances around the move

US loan veteran parts company with GoldenTree
US loan market veteran Fred Haddad is understood to have left GoldenTree Asset Management, the company where he served as a partner and senior portfolio manager

Apollo reorganises its global credit platform
Sources say Apollo Global Management has reshaped its credit business by merging certain divisions and promoting several staffers in New York. Separately, sources say a high-ranking credit head has left the firm

Structured credit specialist swaps CSOs for CLOs as he returns to Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley has added to its CLO structuring team in New York, bringing an official who has been working on synthetic CDOs

THL Credit assigns new role to senior portfolio manager Murphy
Alternative credit manager THL Credit Advisors has promoted managing director Brian Murphy to head of capital markets

Partners Group hires senior portfolio manager Hanslin as it eyes debut US CLO
Switzerland-headquartered Partners Group has hired a senior vice president and portfolio manager of its US bank loan and CLO origination business

Dublin-based co-head of global credit parts company with KKR
An experienced figure in European credit has left KKR in order to pursue interests outside of fund management. He had been serving as co-head of global credit at the firm

Brigade co-founder to leave the firm
Brigade Capital Management's co-founder Pat Kelly is leaving the firm, according to market sources

CVC appoints global head of performing credit as Bowers steps down in London
CVC Credit Partners is putting in place a new leadership structure, with partner and senior portfolio manager Jonathan Bowers set to step down from his role