CLO Structured Credit

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.

Despite a wave of negative coverage, Goldman Sachs Alternatives argues private credit fundamentals remain strong, with attractive spreads and growing opportunity sets.

A confluence of structural mega-trends coupled with new types of capital entering the market make this an exciting time to be financing the energy transition, says Barings’ head of global infrastructure debt Pieter Welman.