{"id":173643,"date":"2021-07-23T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com:443\/news-releases\/carval-investors-launches-clean-clo-product-line-301339965.html"},"modified":"2021-07-23T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:43:00","slug":"carval-investors-launches-clean-clo-product-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/carval-investors-launches-clean-clo-product-line\/","title":{"rendered":"CarVal Investors Launches Clean CLO Product Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MINNEAPOLIS<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 23, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; CarVal Investors, an established global alternative investment manager, today announced the launch of the CarVal Clean CLO platform. The CLOs managed by the platform will utilize a new ESG risk assessment technology to pursue a high-performing, ESG-optimized portfolio which will be driven by proprietary technology developed by CarVal Investors and Insig AI, a data science and machine learning solutions company. This technology is the first of its kind in fixed income and will cover private as well as public issuers, creating a transparent and auditable risk assessment that allows for comparison to relevant benchmarks.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The creation of this ESG-compliant platform will expand our CLO offerings to include CLOs that will be managed using our proprietary ESG risk assessment methodology,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Lucas Detor<\/span>, a managing principal of CarVal Investors. &#8220;At CarVal, we believe ESG risks can have a material impact on the performance of credit investments. This new model will enable us to measure ESG risk at an issuer and portfolio level to create a unique and attractive product for investors. Ultimately, we believe this strategy aligns with our long-term goals of reducing the cost of capital for ESG-minded companies by creating an independent, auditable and comparable risk assessment model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CLOs were tested through the crucible of the global pandemic-led recession, proving once again the power and robustness of the product structure,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Chris Mawn<\/span>, who leads the corporate loans team at CarVal Investors. &#8220;What has emerged is a <span class=\"xn-money\">$1 Trillion<\/span> global CLO market with investors in search of greater ESG integration and transparency.&nbsp;We are launching this new platform to meet this emerging need with the mantra of doing good and doing well without sacrificing returns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CarVal&#8217;s ESG risk assessment model measures each asset on six themes: <\/p>\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li>Climate Change, including carbon emissions and carbon footprint <\/li>\n<li>Natural Capital, including raw material sourcing and water stress <\/li>\n<li>Pollution, including toxic emissions and waste <\/li>\n<li>Human Capital, including health and safety and labor management <\/li>\n<li>Product Liability, including product safety and consumer financial protection <\/li>\n<li>Corporate Governance, including ownership and board<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These measurements are then utilized to create a composite ESG risk assessment that is then comparable at an individual credit and portfolio level. <br class=\"dnr\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to be working in collaboration with CarVal to support the launch of this ground-breaking product line,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Steve Cracknell<\/span>, CEO of Insig AI. &#8220;This launch underscores the powerful role that our innovative ESG scoring and interrogation tool can play in enabling asset managers to develop and execute a data-led ESG investing strategy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>About CarVal Investors <br class=\"dnr\"><\/b>CarVal Investors is an established global alternative investment manager focused on distressed and credit-intensive assets and market inefficiencies. Since 1987, CarVal&#8217;s team has navigated through ever-changing credit market cycles, opportunistically investing <span class=\"xn-money\">$128 billion<\/span> in 5,525 transactions across 82 countries. Today, CarVal Investors has approximately <span class=\"xn-money\">$10 billion<\/span> in assets under management in corporate securities, loan portfolios, structured credit and hard assets. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3236913-1&amp;h=1687720727&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carvalinvestors.com%2F&amp;a=www.carvalinvestors.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.carvalinvestors.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><b>About Insig AI<br class=\"dnr\"><\/b>Insig AI (<a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3236913-1&amp;h=506732191&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Finsg.ai%2F&amp;a=www.insg.ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.insg.ai<\/a>) is a data science and machine learning solutions company serving the asset management industry. The Company has developed five products; Insig Portfolio, Insig ESG, Insig Data, Insig Docs and Insig Exceleton, which allow investment professionals to get the most out of their data, through applying cutting-edge machine learning techniques, elastic database and cloud-computing technology. The Company is head quartered in <span class=\"xn-location\">London, UK<\/span>, and listed on London Stock Exchange AIM. <\/p>\n<p class=\"prntar\"><b>CONTACT:<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class=\"xn-person\">Ann Folkman<\/span>, CarVal Investors<br class=\"dnr\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#cbaaa5a5e5ada4a7a0a6aaa58ba8aab9bdaaa7e5a8a4a6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"e4858a8aca828b888f89858aa4878596928588ca878b89\">[email&nbsp;protected]<\/span><\/a><\/u><br class=\"dnr\">+1 952 444 4869<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE CarVal Investors<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/rt.prnewswire.com\/rt.gif?NewsItemId=NY52225&amp;Transmission_Id=202107230130PR_NEWS_USPR_____NY52225&amp;DateId=20210723\"><\/p>\n<h4> Related Links<\/h4>\n<p> <a title=\"Link to http:\/\/www.carvalinvestors.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carvalinvestors.com\" class=\"linkOnClick\" data-include rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.carvalinvestors.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS, July 23, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; CarVal Investors, an established global alternative investment manager, today announced the launch of the CarVal Clean CLO platform. The CLOs managed by the platform will utilize a new ESG risk assessment technology to pursue a high-performing, ESG-optimized portfolio which will be driven by proprietary technology developed by CarVal Investors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19158],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology-press-releases"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}