CLO Structured Credit

The average time spend fundraising for credit fund strategies has generally risen during the 2020s.

Questions raised over extent of insurers’ borrowing from the Federal Home Loan Banks.

The growth of securitised products is attracting more investors into the space.

The CLO market has challenges, but prospects for the rest of the year look bright as it demonstrates continuing resilience, says Matt Maggio, director and senior portfolio manager in the securitised credit and CLO management team at RBC BlueBay Asset Management.

Welcome to our new-look magazine. In this issue we put the spotlight on innovation with three forces reshaping fund finance; take a deep dive into fund finance and NAV lending; examine the state of the CLO market; and much more…

It’s a challenging environment, especially for new issuance, but Josy Mazzucchiello, head of European CLOs and CLO investing, and Marisa Chen, head of structured issuance, at Partners Group, believe appetite for CLOs will be maintained.

With private equity activity remaining depressed, CLO managers are resetting capital structures and finding creative ways to cultivate new loans.

CVC and Tikehau announce their H1 2026 results, which both reflect more challenging conditions for deployment of capital.

The North America-focused fund exceeded its $886m target, with the fundraise expanding its private credit platform.