Points up front: Navigating lockdown easel-y with brush in hand
The various periods of lockdown over the past 12 months have provided time for credit professionals to tap into their creative side, and Schroders’ head of securitised credit Michelle Russell-Dowe has taken full advantage

Points up front: Brahms for the brain
We often use this column to highlight charitable initiatives undertaken by members of the CLO community, but charity starts at home and we’d like to point you towards an initiative conducted by Richard Burrell, partner of our own Tanvi Gupta

A transformational framework means fund managers have to drive real-world change
There are managers who make transformational investments, those who incorporate ESG and those who do nothing

A brighter year ahead
Panellists on Creditflux’s CLO webinar described how CLO spreads are close to historic tights, ESG is entering the docs and managers have more flexibility with work-outs than ever before

CLO guys shouldn't feel quite as self-important as us Welsh... But you are in a pretty amazing spot
CLO portfolio managers should be emboldened by recent events to push for ESG strategies 

Past returns: Highland sells European CLOs at second attempt
In Creditflux 10 years ago, we reported that Highland Capital Management was offloading its European CLOs, with Alcentra and Barings among the frontrunner

I'm a nosy neighbour... get CSO deals public and embrace the age of information
A year of staying under the radar has not helped the CSO market

Past returns: Nochu lands in Europe
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported that Norinchukin Bank had made its first investment in a 2.0 European CLO

The imperfect incorporation of ESG is no excuse not to act
Managers’ legal ESG responsibilities may be vague, but they must still set up a credible strategy

All types of financing will have to incorporate ESG risks and use their real economy influence
Fund managers can no longer ignore, postpone or hide from measures to tackle climate change

The structured credit industry could promote its benefits more
Filippo Sampietro takes our credit quiz

I foresee various spooky spectacles hitting our screens - and your long portfolios
Welshcake is settling in for a horror movie marathon. But in the previews he sees monsters lurking behind tight credit spreads

CLO collateral managers who are able to update their documents could gain warf advantage
Moody’s is reviewing its approach to warf. Changes could boost managers’ ability to trade

Questions will need answering about where a manager's fiduciary responsibility lies
A university lecturer gives Welshcake a shock with a CLO presentation that points to shady trading games

They should have followed Revlon's Double Twist mascara slogan of 2009: "It's worth a double take"
Blockchain might not eradicate all problems in credit, but it should reduce human error

The length of a CLO’s reinvestment period has no substantive effect on its resilience to defaults
Three-year reinvestment CLOs are the norm, but debt investors should be locking in historically wide spreads for longer

Points up front: From drafting CLO docs to writing crime thrillers
Nicola Bashforth, a popular figure in the CLO business, announced last month that she had left the industry to return to Lancashire in England and try her hand at writing novels

Points up front: How much do I owe you?
Payment systems in the credit industry had a bad August

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

Past returns: Not quite hitting the ceiling
In Creditflux five years ago, we reported that Credit Suisse Asset Management had embedded a Libor cap in the sterling-denominated debt issued by Cadogan Square CLO VI...

They said it: "Imagine a garden party and all of a sudden a big wasp shows up"
On Creditflux’s US CLO webinar last month, Napier Park’s head of US CLO investments Serhan Secmen described the March sell-off as a garden party

Points up front: Introducing Downton Flux

During last month’s broadcast of the Creditflux Manager of the Year, we were inundated with messages of congratulations for the award winners via a live feed...

If you’re not finding black talent, you’re not trying hard enough
In the past few weeks, it has been easy to put up our billboards and tweet our condemnation of the treatment of black people. Now we need to change the way companies work