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SEIX upsizes 2022 vintage by USD 100m
29 days ago
SEIX Investment Advisors reset Mountain View CLO XVI today, upsizing the 2022 vintage deal by USD 100m -
European CLO primary spreads still have a long way to go
3 months ago
Are European CLO spreads in the primary market cheap or expensive? Our latest research shows that while US managers can celebrate AAAs reaching the 150s, in Europe spreads still have a long way to go to reach historical norms. -
Centerbridge returns to the market with new US BSL CLO
5 months ago
After a somewhat quiet year on the primary market, alternative investment manager Centerbridge Partners this week priced its first CLO since February, in a USD 475.35m transaction -
Man GLG returns to US CLO primary with first new issue in two years
9 months ago
Man GLG returned to the US CLO primary market on Friday with its first new issue in over two years -
Global CLO league tables - January 2023 YTD
1 year ago
Global CLO league tables - January 2023 YTD -
Sound Point prints its first new CLO in 11 months
1 year ago
Sound Point Capital Management returned to the CLO primary market on Monday to print its first new CLO in 11 months -
Powell outlook brings risk buyers out in droves, but reality check looks soon to follow
1 year ago
Comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday on the pace of future rate hikes have prompted a sharp rally across global financial markets, including credit. But dissenting voices have already begun to point out the enthusiasm is likely overdone -
Bond tenders bring outperformance as credit fends off commodity woes
1 year ago
Credit markets are managing to stay remarkably robust this week despite high volatility in oil prices and covid deaths in China undermining hopes for its economy to reopen -
Marble Point prices first short-duration CLO with three-year reinvestment period
1 year ago
Marble Point Credit Management on Wednesday priced a new CLO, the firm's second new issue deal in 2022 -
Credit Suisse and UK names lead charge as European IG outperforms
1 year ago
European investment grade credit is rallying strongly at the start of this week, in contrast to a sluggish start by its US counterpart market, with Credit Suisse and UK companies among the outperformers -
Seix prints first new CLO in almost three years
1 year ago
Seix Advisors made a return to the CLO primary market on Friday with its first new issue since December 2019 -
Making the grade: CLO managers move into IG bonds
1 year ago
CLO managers have been using the incredible volatility in credit markets this year to add an unfamiliar asset to their portfolios – investment grade bonds -
Global CLO trading lab: Payments season prompts equity to surge but short-dated bonds trade low
2 years ago
Over the last two weeks, $2.8 billion of US CLOs and €640 million of European CLO paper have appeared on b-wics, with equity making up 33% and 40% of the respective markets -
Credit rallies on Fed and BofE rates signals, but starting gun fires on tapering
2 years ago
Credit and equity markets have responded well to the US Federal Reserve unveiling much anticipated plans to begin tapering asset purchases, while vouching it will stay patient on hiking interest rates. The Bank of England followed this on Thursday by holding its rates at 0.1% -
Three control CLO equity blocks trade, including rare CIFC deal with ultra-low funding costs
2 years ago
Three US CLO anchor equity positions traded Tuesday courtesy of one b-wic at 9.30am New York time -
Ares refis former Crestline Denali CLO debt via Natixis for third time
2 years ago
Ares Management has refinanced the senior-most tranches of a 2016 CLO it bought from Crestline Denali last year -
Crossover names drive rally on strong earnings as European traders return
2 years ago
Several high yield borrowers have made strong improvements on Tuesday as the post-Jackson Hole credit market rally has extended from Friday, with European traders returning after their long weekend -
BNP Paribas refis one-year CLOs managed First Eagle and Octagon
2 years ago
BNP Paribas arranged CLO refinancings for First Eagle Investment Management and Octagon Credit Investors, with both deals having only around one year of reinvestment remaining -
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 -
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 -
It's all relative: CLOs are lagging no more, as Carlyle deal drags market tighter
3 years ago
“CLOs are lagging” has been a much repeated refrain over the last nine months. But Carlyle Group has this week produced a US CLO that has dragged spreads to their tightest point in three years so that, rather than comparing CLOs to pre-covid levels, they should be assessed against early 2018 -
ECB stimulus hopes bolster high yield outperformance
3 years ago
Spread compression has picked up again, with European high yield taking the lead as expectations mount for another round of European Central Bank stimulus at its meeting next week -
IG and crossover indices converge while European CLO double Bs rally
3 years ago
iTraxx Crossover is again outperforming Main today with the investment grade index widening 0.11bp to 52.56bp while the crossover index is 2.42bp tighter to 296.99bp. Meanwhile bank research signals that junior CLO tranches could benefit as investors look at covid industries through a different lense -
VSS holds first close on $400 million non-sponsored junior capital fund
3 years ago
VSS Structured Capital Fund IV will invest in non-control, non-sponsored, junior capital investments in US lower middle market companies -
Triple A investors lock in spreads for extra three months as Marble Point prices CLO
3 years ago
Marble Point Capital Management has a make-whole provision applied on its first new issue US CLO since February
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