Ucits at a glance: Robus and Altana enter the final sprint neck and neck
A downward turn hit Ucits funds as 65% of them made positive returns in September,

CIFC, Generate and Monroe secure combined $1.3 billion CLO resets
CIFC Asset Management, Generate Advisors and Monroe Capital each reset a CLO on Monday with the three deals amounting to $1.34 billion

Three control CLO equity blocks trade, including rare CIFC deal with ultra-low funding costs
Three US CLO anchor equity positions traded Tuesday courtesy of one b-wic at 9.30am New York time

CIFC pulls CLO market tighter with seventh US deal of year
CIFC Asset Management teamed up with Nomura on Monday to price the tightest new CLO in over two weeks

US CLO pipeline: newcomers look to follow Beach Point's lead by pricing before year-end
Beach Point Capital Management became the latest debut issuer in the US CLO market on Friday, and Sycamore Tree Capital Partners and Putnam Investments are set to join it    

Everyone’s ramping

Ucits at a glance: Angsana recovers from July slump
Just under 75% of Ucits funds made positive returns in August, holding steady from June and July

Points up front: CLO award-winners love bowing out at the top
Reaching the summit of their profession gives CLO officials the compulsion to move on to pastures new, as evidenced by the Creditflux Manager Awards

CSAM regains best manager throne
Upstart CLO managers overtook more experienced rivals at last year’s Creditflux Manager Awards, but CSAM and other large firms, such as PGIM, emerged victorious in London this time around

CLO resets top $2 billion for second day this week
CLO reset volume topped $2 billion on Thursday as Antares Capital Management, CIFC Asset Management and Shenkman Capital Management each reworked older deals

CIFC European CLO head leaves on eve of deal pricing
CIFC Asset Management's European chief investment officer has left the firm resulting in two senior US officials plugging the gap on a short-term basis 

CIFC's Vaccaro highlights importance of company culture [video]
CIFC Asset Management’s Steve Vaccaro gave an insight into his company’s approach to diversity and inclusion at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium earlier this month. He said that these values have been a focus for CIFC for a long time, culminating in the firm producing a CLO linked to a charitable initiative in May

114bp is triple A spread to beat as CIFC prints sixth new US CLO of 2021
CIFC Asset Management placed its sixth new US CLO of the year on Wednesday with the triple A notes coming in at 114 basis points over Libor, a full 4.25bp tight of the 10-day rolling average

US CLO pipeline: 33 new issues enter market with historic CLO records on the verge of shattering
The US CLO market is running as hot as it has all year with a whopping 33 managers marketing new issues CLOs, according to market sources

Déjà vu as CLO strategies again top hedge fund tables
Seven out of the top 10 funds in our hedge fund tables belong to the CLO category as the asset class outperformed again in July

An alternative way of looking at CLO overlap
Analysing CLO collateral to look for overlap is critical for any CLO investor, but it is normally done either within a portfolio of CLOs or by bilaterally comparing two managers. In one of its latest research pieces, Moody’s Analytics has taken a different approach

Fund performance: CLOs dominate again as CIFC and Hildene score hat-tricks
CLO funds once again take over the top 10 as seven of those listed with Creditflux invest predominantly in the asset class. So far in 2021, CLO funds have held a majority of the spots in the top 10 on four occasions

Ucits at a glance: Loomis Sayles makes gains in sleepy July
Ucits fund returns

CIFC upsizes post-covid CLO with reset
CIFC Asset Management reset on Friday its post-covid CLO named CIFC Funding 2020-II, upsizing the deal by $7.1 million in the process

CIFC completes reset of 2019 CLO via Citi
CIFC Asset Management teamed with Citi on Monday to print a $554.09 million reset of CIFC Funding 2019-III

CLO funds defy soft market to deliver yet again
Corporate credit rallied in the second quarter, while CLO spreads dripped wider — but that hasn’t stopped CLO funds outperforming yet again

Fund performance: long-short funds challenge CLO strategies
CLO funds are maintaining their stranglehold on our top 10, but long-short credit funds are giving them a run for their money

Ucits at a glance: mid market fund leaps into top four
The majority of Ucits funds end Q2 on a high note as 76% of those in our database recorded positive performance in June

CIFC joins post-covid CLO resetters
CIFC Asset Management reset the first of its four 2020 CLOs on Thursday, upsizing the deal by $11.5 million in the process