CLO Manager Awards

The 17th annual Creditflux manager awards returns in May at a new location, with submissions now open until the 25 February. After a month of thorough analysis, the finalists will be announced in April. The winners will then be revealed at the Manager Awards dinner on 15 May, after the second day of the annual Creditflux Symposium at the Nobu Hotel London Portman Square.

The CLO awards cover a variety of categories across the industry, recognising the best performers among US and European broadly-syndicated loan CLOs, private credit CLOs, the best CLOs redeemed in 2024, and the best managers in all these fields, with categories for boutique and established firms included.

CLOs will be judged purely on performance metrics available in the trustee reports to ensure transparency. Metrics for best CLOs include par build and headroom in junior OC tests; weighted average price and percentage of assets under a price threshold; weighted average spread, and weighted average rating factor; and average annualised returns to equity weighted by leverage and volatility. CLOs that went effective in 2024 will be considered in the “new CLO” categories, and will be judged on weighted par build, WARF at inception, and arbitrage.

In order to be eligible for the awards, managers must provide access to their trustee reports through the trustee websites to ensure the reports are listed on CLO-i and fill out this entry form. Managers should enter details for all their CLOs, and they will be automatically entered into all eligible categories. To be considered for the “best manager” categories, please note that all eligible CLOs must be submitted, as the finalists are selected on the average of all CLOs. For any questions or queries, or to return the entry form, please contact robin.armitage@iongroup.com, lafri.reda@iongroup.com or data@creditflux.com.

Fund awards

All open-ended CLO funds that are listed on Creditflux’s credit hedge fund database and have at least a year’s worth of returns will be automatically eligible for the best CLO fund category. Any fund interested in entering should send this entry form filled in with historical returns to data@creditflux.com.

The closed-end CLO funds are split into two categories; please find attached entry forms with example data filled in for private closed-end CLO funds and public closed-end CLO funds. This is to recognise similarly structured funds with comparable reporting methods. Please return completed forms, or direct any questions or queries, to robin.armitage@iongroup.com or data@creditflux.com.

Please find the full list of categories below:

• Award Categories:
• Best new US CLO
• Best new European CLO
• Best US CLO
• Best European CLO
• Best US boutique CLO manager
• Best European boutique CLO manager
• Best redeemed US CLO
• Best redeemed European CLO
• Best middle-market CLO
• Best new middle-market CLO
• Best non-traditional CLO
• Best public closed-end CLO fund
• Best private closed-end CLO fund
• Best CLO fund (<$150m AUM)
• Best CLO fund (>$150m AUM)
• Best MM CLO manager
• Best US CLO manager
• Best European CLO manager
• Creditflux manager of the year