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Fortress prices second new CLO of 2024
27 days ago
Fortress has returned to the primary market for a second time this year, pricing a USD 451.87m new BSL CLO late last week -
Ares prints new US CLO with 220bp senior triple A print
1 year ago
Ares Management priced a new CLO on Monday with a senior triple A spread of Sofr plus 220 basis points -
CLO liabilities trend wider with Voya CLO at 2022's widest funding costs
1 year ago
Voya Investment Management priced a new CLO via Royal Bank of Canada on Tuesday with the weighted cost of debt coming in at 281.93 basis points, making it the widest liability pricing of the year to date -
Broad sell-off as market moves to price five or more Fed hikes
2 years ago
Financial market sentiment has taken another dive in the wake of the US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, with many taking Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s comment that “this cycle is different from the previous one” to mean a steeper tightening than previously thought -
BlackRock and Irradiant refinance legacy CLOs
2 years ago
BlackRock and Irradiant Partners each refinanced a legacy CLO on Thursday -
Italy underscores market caution as credit traders fail to reward upgrade
2 years ago
Credit markets are finely poised on Monday as traders look for directional signals, following one of the most volatile weeks in recent times -
CLO pricing holds up against omicron as liquid credit takes a hammering
2 years ago
Being illiquid sometimes has its advantages, with the CLO market the picture of serenity as CDS swings imply volatility is afoot -
Chicago-based manager prints first new CLO in over three years
2 years ago
Chicago Fundamental Investment Partners has made a long-awaited return to the CLO primary market by pricing its first new issue deal in over three years -
Credit optimism returns on Evergrande and Fed but big questions loom large
2 years ago
Credit markets have moved onto a firmer footing, with one day of this week’s US Federal Reserve meeting out of way and troubled Chinese real estate behemoth Evergrande having negotiated a domestic yuan bond payment. But there is plenty of room for upset in the coming sessions -
Mid market CLO league tables: No change up top but KKR and Silver Point enter race
2 years ago
The mid market CLO space welcomed two new faces to its ranks last month as Silver Point Capital and KKR priced a new issue CLO each -
Mid market CLO league tables: stalwarts Golub and Natixis reign supreme again
2 years ago
It may have taken seven months, but the mid market CLO league tables have familiar faces at the top with Golub Capital and Natixis leading the way in manager and arranger issuance, respectively -
It's all relative: IG index drifts wide of 50bp as European CLO triple Bs outperform
2 years ago
US investment grade credit has been an underperformer in the last few weeks with CDX IG trading north of 50 basis points again. But European CLO triple Bs are looking strong while there is a stronger bid for two- to three-year paper in the US -
Unusual double As jump tighter as BMO keeps it in-house again with CLO refi
2 years ago
BMO has refinanced a CLO for BMO that resulted in junior double As moving much tighter relative to senior double As -
Global CLO trading lab: quality and optionality shine as 2020 and 2019 mezz trades up
2 years ago
The primary and secondary CLO markets are moving in tandem with both markets drifting wider amid a wealth of supply -
Financials and high yield outperform as rally gathers momentum
2 years ago
Credit spreads are enjoying a second day of improvement to regain some of the ground they lost last week, with Italian banks, commodity traders and higher yielding borrowers among outperformers in a broad rally of both indices and single name borrowers -
Beneath the triple C: CLOs benefit as upgrades make for lighter triple C buckets
3 years ago
For the first time since the sell off in March last year, downgrades to triple C have come to a near-standstill -
LP round-up: $2.6 billion flows into 26 credit managers
3 years ago
A stuck ship in the Suez Canal may have prevented others from getting through one of the world's busiest waterways in March, but allocations to credit funds were much more free flowing as investors poured over $2.6 billion into the hands of credit managers -
US and European control CLO positions land in secondary market
3 years ago
The first control equity positions of 2021 for the European and US CLO markets were listed in the secondary market on Thursday -
FS KKR resets 2019 CLO with single As the only tranche to tighten
3 years ago
FS Investments and KKR's business development company, FS KKR Capital Corp, has reset its sole CLO from 2019 -
Compression plays out as HY and European CLO double Bs outperform
3 years ago
Investment grade and high yield credit spreads have tightened in sync with each other this week, but CDS and CLOs alike underline that the big theme over the past month has been compression between investment grade and high yield -
European CLOs rise in secondary with Sound Point deal up 4.25 cents from issuance
3 years ago
Double-B rated CLO tranches received bids in the high 90s on Wednesday with Sound Point Capital Management’s debut European CLO attracting the highest cover of 98.25 cents on the euro. But the CLO rally is lagging moves in corporate credit -
CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
3 years ago
Over $3.5 billion of global CLO issuance priced last week and managers in all three CLO markets are taking advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure after three major covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs and increased confidence since the US presidential election -
CLO pipeline: New issuance pause ends as managers look to gain from rallying spreads
3 years ago
It is two and a half weeks since the last US CLO new issue priced, but that is set to change and Bridgepoint’s debut European transaction on Friday brought an end to Europe’s own two-and-a-half-week primary break -
Global b-wic round-up: Europe drifts wider
3 years ago
The CLO secondary market had a robust week with $860 million of US CLO paper and €315 million worth of European CLO bonds listed. But spreads widened off the back of concerns over lockdowns across the globe, the increased risk of downgrades and tomorrow’s US presidential election -
CLO pipeline: deal flow slows ahead of US election
3 years ago
Only two forthcoming new issue US CLOs have been added to the pipeline this week as the election slowdown hits credit markets. This comes after eight new issue US CLOs and five European CLOs have priced over the last ten days during the pre-election rush
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