Ucits at a glance: Ucits continue to chart a steady course

CLOs at a glance: innovations arrive as year draws to close

Ucits at a glance: ucits continue to chart a steady course

Fund performance
A round-up of fund performance click here.

Värde taps growing CRE CLO market for the third time
Värde Partners closed a $627 million CRE CLO last week via Goldman Sachs

Fund performance
A round-up of fund performance

Ucits at a glance
A round-up of ucits fund performance

Credit funds at a glance
A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Commonfund seeks to diversify manager pool with new portal
Commonfund will launch an online 'diverse manager portal' designed specifically to receive due diligence materials from women and minority-led managers investing in equities, fixed income and credit, real estate and hedge funds

Ucits at a glance
A round-up of ucits fund performance

Credit funds at a glance
A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Fund performance
A round-up of fund performance

CRE CLO issuance beats 2018 totals
After a 12.5% increase in year-on-year first quarter issuance, the first half of 2019 turned up the heat with a 30% year-on-year increase to $9.1bn in CRE CLO issuance, according to Kroll Bond Agency.

Fund performance: Mercury rises as does credit fund performance

Starwood Property makes big splash in CRE CLO market
The debutant to issue a CRE CLO that represents 12% of the market's H1 2019 issuance

Investor requirements rather than performance is driving ESG push: Creditflux survey
Only 14% of respondents to Creditflux's global credit ESG survey said performance was the main reason they were adopting envoronmental, social and governance-themed strategies

Bridge markets fourth CRE CLO
With three prior deals outstanding, Bridge Investments last visited the market in December

Deutsche AM's real estate division prepares second infra CLO
RREEF America, a subsidiary of Deutsche Asset Management that invests in commercial real estate, is readying a new securitisation backed by project finance assets named RIN II

Sun Life merges asset management business to create $159 billion division
Sun Life will merge its fixed income businesses - including Prime Advisors, Ryan Labs and Sun Life Institutional Investors - under a new umbrella named SLC Management 

CRE CLO issuance climbs in Q1
SImilarities in structure rival differences in credit analysis

Liquidity and disclosure issues threaten potential CRE CLO market
Most investors that participate in the commercial real estate CLO market want to increase their exposure. But the lack of liquidity and standardised disclosure is holding them back.

Credit funds at a glance

A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Loomis Sayles plans alternatives interval fund
Loomis Sayles is looking to launch an interval fund focused on alternative asset-based opportunities, according to 4 December US regulatory filings

M&G structured credit PM takes on bigger fixed income origination role
The structured credit portfolio manager, who is based in Europe, changes focus to sourcing investment opportunities across all areas of fixed income

Ellington partners with Trium for new credit Ucits offering
Ellington has joined the alternative Ucits party, partnering with London-based Trium Capital for Ellington Trium Alternative Credit Ucits, a long/short credit Ucits fund.