ESG and CLOs
Investing in the CLO market remains a headache for LPs with ESG criteria. An increasing number of CLO managers market themselves as ESG compliant, but the market remains skeptical about how genuine they are – the recent Creditflux CLO Census revealed that the most common answer to which is the most ESG-aware US manager was “no-one”. What’s the solution for the growing number of LPs that need to track this metric in detail?
- How much pressure do US LPs really feel on ESG?
- Where is the CLO market on ESG criteria, and how do US and European CLOs differ?
- Are CLO funds able to provide the metrics that LPs need?
- How can the industry standardize reporting to reduce the duplication of effort, and are ESG ratings one answer?
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SpeakersThomas Davidson Managing Editor CREDITFLUX
Derek Fin Client Portfolio Manager INVESCO PRIVATE CREDIT
Mark Hanslin Managing Director PARTNERS GROUP
Kevin Lin Assistant Director MOODY'S ANALYTICS
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Derek is a Client Portfolio Manager for Invesco’s global private credit group. He is focused on supporting business development efforts and is responsible for client communication for leveraged loans, CLOs, and alternative credit products.
Derek joined Invesco Private Credit in 2022. Prior to his current role, Derek was a vice president and client portfolio manager at Seix Investment Advisors responsible for leveraged loans, CLOs, and high yield bonds. Previously, Derek was vice president at JP Morgan on the multi-asset portfolio management team focused on equities, fixed income, and alternatives. Prior to JP Morgan, Derek was a fixed income product specialist at Goldman Sachs within the investment management division. Derek began his career in 2010 at the LSTA (Loan Syndications and Trading Association) as a market analyst providing research to institutional clients on the leveraged loan market.
Derek graduated with a BBA in Finance from Lehman College and is a CAIA charterholder.
Mark Hanslin is part of the Liquid Loans business unit, based in New York. He is a member of the Global Liquid Loans Investment Committee. He has 36 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, Mark spent 15 years with Mizuho Bank (formerly Fuji Bank) in New York, where he served as co-founder and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Mountain Capital U.S. CLO management platform and was also a Senior Team Leader in Fuji Bank's U.S. Leveraged Finance Originations Group. Mark has also been engaged in senior investment advisory roles for Mountain Bridge Advisors and Nebula Capital, where he focused on liquid debt investment and U.S. CLO management and investment strategies. He began his career as a corporate credit analyst, and also served as a lending officer and a high yield investment portfolio manager for Union Bank of Finland (now Nordea Bank) in New York for a ten year period. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Boston University, Massachusetts, USA and a MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business, USA.
Kevin Lin is an Assistant Director – Senior Financial Engineer on the CLO Customer Success team at Moody’s Analytics. He began his career as a CMBS analyst for Moody’s Investors Service, where he spent 5 years modeling and rating conduit transactions. In his 3 years at Moody’s Analytics, he has worked in both the CMBS and CLO teams, where he mainly focuses on Customer Engagement, creating financial models, and improving the Structured Finance Portal.
Kevin has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Princeton University.