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

   

Waterfall pair earn promotion to partner
Waterfall Asset Management says it has appointed a residential loan specialist and a structured credit investor to partner 

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

Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions

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

Citi structured credit specialist leaves after 15 years
A key figure in Citi’s European structured credit business since 2007 has joined Julius Baer as head of corporate finance advisory

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

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

Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns

Ex-Accunia CLO specialist lands at Danish firm to build structured finance platform
An ex-Accunia chief investment officer and CLO specialist has landed at Danish commercial real estate firm CBRE

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

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

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

Credit Rendezvous: the upside of inflation
It is clear, inflation is not transitory and central banks are acting with several interest rate hikes likely in store for the US this year. That makes loans and CLO debt tranches attractive, but there could be opportunities beyond these floating rate assets

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

First Euro CRE CLO points to likely growth market
CRE CLOs have been identified as a likely growth market in Europe following the successful pricing of the first transaction on the continent, according to sources

Credit Fundraising: Private credit and CLO captive equity feature strongly as closes mount up
Credit funds have made a fair start to the fourth quarter, although the $21 billion raised during October is down substantially on September’s impressive record for 2021

Credit funds at a glance (November 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

FCA draws up new fund structure for long-term assets
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has finalised a new fund structure that is designed to make it easier for defined contribution pension plans to invest in long-term assets

Axa IM launches multi-strat fund for pensions
Axa Investment Managers’ ‘alternatives’ business has launched an open-ended strategy for pension funds

Credit Rendezvous: Credit spins full circle
The third quarter was massive in terms of volumes with CLOs, high yield, leverage loans and private equity registering record issuance. But credit spreads were up and down as inflation fears, crackdowns in China and rising coronavirus cases became catalysts for risk-off sentiment in July and September

Pretium hires senior PineBridge official to spearhead middle east expansion
Pretium has established a presence in the Middle East with the opening of a Dubai office and has hired a managing director from PineBridge to lead the charge

Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives.