The European collateralized loan obligation (CLO) market experienced positive news last week, with two new deals announced. There also seems to be increased activity in the UK commercial real estate
Alternative investments are gaining traction. An estimated 80 percent of young investors are allocating more of their portfolios to investments that fall outside of the more classic categories like stocks
Hardman and Co’s Mark Thomas discusses Volta Finance Ltd in this exclusive interview with DirectorsTalk.
The LSTA and event co-host DealCatalyst are excited to announce a new partnership on a premier industry event for the broadly syndicated CLO and leveraged lending market. The LSTA serves as the industry
Volta Finance (LON:VTA) is the topic of conversation when Mark Thomas, Analyst at Hardman &Co joins DirectorsTalk Interviews. Mark talks us through his recent report entitled ‘An easy guide to the
Securitised credit can be a useful fixed income allocation for institutional investors who focus on book yield or those trying to match the cash flows of future pension liabilities. The
Challenges in the banking system are expanding the opportunities available to direct lenders. I believe the shifts we’re seeing won’t be short-lived, but, to borrow a phrase from Oaktree Capital
The industry-specific terminology associated with CLOs can give the impression of a complexity to the product that belies reality, and, in our view, is unhelpful to the Volta investment case.
U.S. commercial-property loans set to mature in 2023 and 2024 total nearly $900 billion. Against a backdrop of higher borrowing costs, falling prices and an increasingly risk-averse attitude among traditional sources of
What are leveraged loans? About five years ago in episode 205, we discussed a rather obscure asset class that goes by multiple names. The names include leveraged loans, syndicated bank loans, floating
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