NIBC ups the ESG bar with new euro CLO

Dutch manager NIBC has printed a new European CLO, North Westerly VI, which raises the bar for ESG standards in the leveraged credit market, with an absolute ban on companies involved in a variety of problematic industries — irrespective of the proportion of their earnings that comes from the activity in question. It has also committed to ESG scoring through the trustee reports, so buyers of the CLO debt can monitor the portfolio’s ethics down the road.