A strong year for CLO strategies
After the pain of 2022, credit fund managers must have been praying that 2023 turned out better. It did.

Fund performance: CLO funds dominate top 10, but long-short and Ucits funds find places too
CLO funds made sure to end the year their way: once again they claimed most of the top performance spots. Six of the 10 best-performing funds in December have a majority of their assets invested in CLOs.

Credit hedge funds
Credit hedge fund performance

Credit funds at a glance
Credit funds at a glance

Troubled European name reaches end-game
The long-running saga of French mass-market retail group Casino Guichard-Perrachon appears to be nearly over as the firm filed for Chapter 15 recognition in the US

Veteran JP Morgan credit trader leaves for buy-side
JP Morgan's global head of macro credit trading has left to move to a London-based hedge fund 

New report finds 2023 a record year for alternative credit M&A
A new report on “Acquisitions of Alternative Credit Managers” by credit specialist Gapstow forecasts that more M&A activity lies ahead for credit firms as they struggle with the challenges facing the broader investment management industry

AB Carval joins 2024 pipeline
AB CarVal has foreshadowed its first deal of 2024 with the announcement of marketing materials for CarVal CLO IX-C, a USD 508.3m BSL CLO arranged by Deutsche Bank

Credit PMs remain gloomy in latest IACPM survey
Survey participants in the latest IACPM Credit Outlook Survey believe the euphoria seen in global financial markets during the last few months of 2023 was overdone

2023: a bumper year for CLO funds
It looks like 2023 will finish as a solid year for most credit funds, and an outstanding one for CLO funds. But funds pursuing corporate distressed strategies continued to struggle

Credit hedge funds
Credit hedge fund performance

Credit funds at a glance
Credit funds at a glance

Credit hedge funds
Hedge fund performance tables

Credit funds at a glance
Fund performance; people hires; fundraising 

Corvid Peak closes on acquisition of long/short credit fund Coherence Capital
Corvid Peak Capital Management has completed the purchase of credit fund Coherence Capital Management's investment team

Credit PMs predict global recession
Respondents to the latest IACPM credit outlook survey were feeling particularly gloomy, with a strong majority predicting recessions in both the US and Europe next year

BNP Paribas adds big-name buy-side tranche trader
BNP Paribas has hired a new CDX Tranche Market Maker from the buy-side

Fund performance
Positive August for credit sees CLO funds on top again

Credit funds at a glance
Ucits see red in a tough June for returns

Credit hedge funds
Credit hedge funds performance data

Credit funds at a glance (September 2023)
A round-up of people moves and fund raising  

Credit hedge fund returns (September 2023)
Credit hedge fund returns  

CLO funds are hot in summer as they take nine spots in top 10 (Fund performance)
CLO funds took the lead through summer as the returns of the category index reached 1.88% and 3.18% in June and July, respectively. Both months saw a CLO fund as the top performer — Sound Point Meridian in June, and Oxford Gate Master Fund in July.

Walleye Capital adds credit volatility portfolio manager from Squarepoint Capital

Minnesota-headquartered Walleye Capital has hired a new portfolio manager specializing in credit volatility

Single-name CDS volumes surge in the Americas, according to Barclays research
The net notional outstanding volume for Americas corporate (ex-LatAm) CDS increased 19% year on year to a new multi-year high according to new research from Barclays