Warwick signals move into US CLOs by hiring former Alcentra and BlackRock official
Special sits firm Warwick Capital has hired two partners to launch its US business, including one former CLO portfolio manager, in a move which signals the firm’s intention to build a CLO platform

CSAM does the CLO awards double
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it

Franklin Templeton buys Alcentra in $700 million deal
Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy BNY Mellon’s $38 billion credit unit Alcentra, which will see Alcentra combined with Franklin Templeton’s US credit manager Benefit Street Partners

Sycamore Tree hires two senior managing directors in marketing roles
Sycamore Tree Capital Partners has hired Amanda Montgomery and Marc Gonyea as managing directors

HY fund is exception to rule of CLOs
CLO funds have had back-to-back years of outperformance versus credit, proving the asset class is a great place to invest, rain or shine. But a Wasserstein HY fund was the star performer in 2021  

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

KKR and PGIM among bidders to buy Alcentra: Bloomberg
BNY Mellon is set to offload its credit investment unit Alcentra, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter

CLO managers refi $1.7 billion across four deals
Four CLO managers refinanced legacy deals on Tuesday, for a total $1.7 billion

Alcentra appoints liquid credit PM as head of responsible investing
Alcentra has built out a dedicated responsible investing team and has appointed its liquid credit portfolio manager to the newly created role of head of responsible investing

Alcentra makes leadership changes as European CLO head Rainbow goes part-time
Alcentra has announced changes to its leadership team with co-chief investment officer of liquid credit Graham Rainbow deciding to take on a part-time role at the firm

Alcentra's head of European direct lending set to leave
Alcentra’s head of European direct lending is set to part ways with the firm at the end of September

Alcentra returns to US new issue CLO market after two years away
Alcentra has priced its first new US CLO in almost two years

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

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.  

US CLO portfolio manager set to join fast-growing Redding Ridge
A US CLO portfolio manager is set to join Redding Ridge Asset Management next month, taking the firm's CLO PM roster to three

Alcentra hires London-based executive director in liquid loans and high yield team
Alcentra has hired a senior analyst in the firm's liquid loans and high yield team 

Points up front: CLO veteran earns OBE
We spotted a household name in the CLO business among those being feted in last month’s Queen’s birthday honours list — former Alcentra chief executive David Forbes-Nixon was awarded an OBE

Alcentra and Octagon each reset 2019 CLOs
Alcentra and Octagon Credit Investors each reset a 2019 CLO on Thursday, with the two transactions totalling $861.3 million

CLO investor departs Alcentra for another buyside firm
A CLO investor has departed from his job at Alcentra and has landed at a boutique European credit manager 

Global CLO trading lab: quality and optionality shine as 2020 and 2019 mezz trades up
The primary and secondary CLO markets are moving in tandem with both markets drifting wider amid a wealth of supply

Credit fundraising: Audax scores big in lighter month
Fundraising markedly dropped in May, but credit funds still amassed $12.8 billion and 10 credit funds reached final closes across a variety of different strategies

Alcentra's global CLO fund closes at $484 million and over 50% deployed
Alcentra has closed its fourth global CLO fund, Alcentra Structured Credit Opportunities Fund IV, at $484 million

Global CLO pricing lab: investors get over fatigue and embrace reset roll over
The demand for CLOs is showing no signs of slowing down after the market had experienced some fatigue at the end of the first quarter and into the second. In the last two weeks, there have been 47 CLO transactions across all forms of pricing in the three markets; led by 18 US CLO new issues

Alcentra includes 2.1% Euribor cap on triple A tranche in CLO reset
Alcentra has included a 2.1% Euribor cap on the triple A notes in its reset of Jubilee 2013-X

$1.25 billion of CLO refis span range of tenors
The CLO primary market absorbed $1.25 billion of refinancings as American Money Management Corporation, First Eagle Investment Management, PGIM and Alcentra priced cost-cutting transactions, with different reinvestment periods across the pack