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

   

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

"If anything is to be salvaged from the rest of 2022, the economy needs a hero — and quickly"
Something has gotta give as a recession looms in the US. Might it be energy?

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

CLO investors show more signs of optimism than other ABS: Barclays
CLO investors attending the Global ABS conference in Barcelona were more upbeat than those that work in residential mortgage-backed securities and other ABS, say Barclays securitised credit strategists. But the overall mood was sombre

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

CRE CLO episode shines light on CLO get-out clauses
Market disruption clauses are rare in CLO warehouse agreements, but litigation surrounding a cancelled 2020 CRE CLO underlines how these can give CLO issuers added flexibility in a doomsday scenario

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