Brigade appoints ex-Schroders official as CEO
Brigade Capital Management has appointed a former Schroders co-head of fixed income as CEO 

European CLO and ABS trader rejoins P&G in Milan
An experienced European CLO trader has switched to the buy side with market sources indicating he has returned to P&G

Aegon targets ABS for new fund
Aegon Asset Management says it has launched a global ABS fund with a return target of Euribor plus 500 basis points

Barings and PGIM win loan and structured credit mandates as pension puts £2.7bn in credit
The firms will manage global syndicated loans, securitised credit, emerging market debt and global high yield credit for Border to Coast Pension Partnership's £2.7 billion ($3.43 billion) multi-asset credit fund 

Wriedt buys minority stake in direct lender Scio and joins as strategic advisor
Oliver Wriedt, the former chief executive officer at DFG Investment Advisers, has bought a minority stake in European credit asset manager Scio Capital

Onex prepares structured credit fund after making big CLO hire
Onex Credit Partners has launched a new structured credit offering, Onex Structured Credit Opportunities Fund, four months after hiring structured credit veteran Ronnie Jaber

Credit hedge funds (September 2020)
Monthly credit hedge fund tables

Ucits at a glance: Five funds lift YTD returns above 5%
Five funds have managed to pull their year to date figures above 5%; Loomis Sayles (7.50%), Algebris (5.82%), Pictet (5.53%), Amundi (5.36%) and Advent (5.11%)

Credit funds at a glance (September 2020)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves

Fund performance: Almost a third of credit funds reach positive YTD returns
July has been a successful month for many credit funds, despite the recovery peaking in May and June

CLO funds top rankings, but still have ground to make up
CLOs may have taken a hammering in March but, for the fourth consecutive month, funds that invest in these assets dominate our ranking of the top performing credit funds

Carlyle appoints European credit investor relations head
Carlyle Group has appointed an ex-Bain official as head of global credit investor relations in Europe

The surge in index tranche trading has resulted in a deep, liquid and nuanced set of market dynamics
Welshcake emerges from his bunker to find CLOs still standing and the CSO market getting back to business

Ex-Morgan Stanley CLO head joins blockchain firm to "change world of finance"
A former Morgan Stanley veteran has resurfaced at Figure, a San Francisco-based firm bringing blockchain technology to financial markets

Hayfin broadens scope of structured credit business
Hayfin Capital Management’s new-look structured credit team in New York is taking its existing CLO-centric platform and diversifying it to include CMBS, RMBS and other forms of ABS, say officials at the firm

Managers advised to refresh disclosures after SEC risk alert
Credit managers should review their conflict disclosures after the SEC issued a risk alert, say lawyers

CLO managers offer views on ESG for upcoming PRI report
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is set to unveil a report detailing results from its ESG structured credit survey in the next few months, and the institution anticipates that this will be a launch pad for further investigation about ESG integration into the asset class

Fund performance: Credit funds post double-digit gains
June returns have once again been led by CLO funds, as seven out of the top 10 belong to our CLOs category.

Credit funds at a glance (August 2020)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves

Ucits at a glance: Ucits funds march on and erase Q1 losses
95% of Ucits credit funds listed with Creditflux posted positive returns in June to keep up the momentum from May when all but one fund was in positive territory

Credit hedge funds (August 2020)
Monthly credit hedge fund tables

New funds move in as tranche trades take off
Synthetic structured credit funds are proving popular with investors amid a spike in index tranche trading

DoubleLine adds co-portfolio manager to bond fund
DoubleLine Capital has added founder Ken Shinoda as co-portfolio manager of the DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund

Swedish fund nears public listing after big gains on CLO and tranche trades
Stockholm-based Ymer SC is moving forward with plans to list its structured credit fund on the Nordic Growth Market exchange in Sweden

Fed gets $723.1 million of talf requests in second round of funding
Small businesses and CMBS dominated the second round of term asset backed loan funding, as the New York Federal Reserve received $723.1 million worth of requests from issuers to tap into the financial rescue loans