Schroders hires COO for securitised products and CLO investments team
Schroders Capital has made a senior hire from Lloyds Bank to the newly-created role of chief operating officer of its global securitised credit team

Manager selection stakes are heightening as CLO pain points intensify: Barclays
CLOs’ slump in market value and piling of distressed assets have made differentiation between managers much more acute on key metrics, regionally and by vintage, according to Barclays credit strategists

LP round up: Oak Hill wins $300 million for strategic credit and Arcmont eyes fund four
US investors allocated nearly $1.5 billion to credit funds in May, with managers to win mandates including: 400, Accel-KKR, Advent, Arcmont, ArrowMark, Comvest, Edelweiss, Francsico, Oak Hill, Sixth Street and Sprott

AlbaCore raises CLO head to partner in raft of promotions
AlbaCore Capital Group has promoted its top CLO specialist to partner and portfolio manager

Goldman hires veteran CLO structurer to boost US business
Goldman Sachs has hired a well known CLO structurer to its operations in New York

CLO resets drive equity returns to highest in five years: JP Morgan
Equity investors in US CLOs are earning, on average, the biggest returns of the past five years, finds JP Morgan – with deals reset this year having done most to raise the numbers

MidOcean employs rare tranche structure with 2016 US CLO reset
MidOcean Credit Fund Management has reset a 2016 vintage US CLO via Jefferies, upping the deal size slightly and shaving its funding costs in an unusual reconfiguration of tranches

Creditflux announces finalists for Manager of the Year award
Ahead of the virtual awards ceremony on 15 July Creditflux is thrilled to announce the four finalists for the prestigious Manager of the Year category.

Former Redding Ridge business development head lands at CLO issuer
The former head of business development at Redding Ridge Asset Management has joined a firm which specialises in CLOs and structured credit

Former structured credit co-head Messina lands on buy side
Megan Messina, former co-head of structured credit at Bank of America, has resurfaced at an asset manager three years after leaving the bank

Senior structured credit official leaves GoldenTree
A senior portfolio manager has parted ways with GoldenTree Asset Management, it has emerged

CLO managers give blessing to Morningstar
“Our methodology is extremely transparent and our turnaround is extremely quick" - Morningstar's Brian Grow describes the company's ascension into the CLO market

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

Carlyle group's solid Q4 results include $1.7 billion of global credit fundraising
The firm’s fourth quarter global credit fundraising of $1.7 billion included four CLOs, follow-on closes in their new private BDCs, structured credit fund, and managed accounts

Alcentra creeps closer to $300 million target with third structured credit fund
London-headquartered Alcentra, the alternative fixed income specialist for BNY Mellon Investment Management, appears to have raised more than $214 million for its third Clareant structured credit opportunities fund

Citi promotes European CLO head and co-head of credit correlation trading
Citi – a market leader in CLO origination and bespokes – has promoted officials responsible for these businesses.

Buoyant CRE CLO market to finish the year with a flourish
Two deals are in the CRE CLO pipeline in what has been a bumper year following $12.2 billion of issuance

Deutsche Bank plans new securitisation of UK consumer loans
Deutsche Bank is working with P2P Global Investments to price a securitisation backed by UK unsecured consumer loans

EJF recycles legacy assets to price first trups CDO of 2017
Hedge fund manager EJF Capital is understood to have priced a trust-preferred CDO backed by assets issued before the crisis