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Mid market CLO league tables: Golub makes it six straight while Natixis blows away the competition
1 year ago
In a trying year, issuance of mid market CLOs dropped a considerable amount. Total volumes dropped from $43.6 billion in 2021 to $20.8 billion in 2022, a 52% decrease year-on-year -
Global 2022 CLO league tables
1 year ago
Global 2022 CLO league tables -
Telcos show strength amid worrisome start to week
1 year ago
Telecommunication companies have had a good start to the week in credit markets, despite caution around latest Chinese economic numbers and reports of droughts in Europe adding to that continent’s energy concerns -
Quarterly rankings: Wave of acquisitions reshapes CLO market
2 years ago
A wave of acquisitions and consolidation hit the CLO market in the first quarter of 2022, although the ripples have yet to alter Creditflux’s manager rankings -
TCW refinances 2019 CLO at $370 million
2 years ago
TCW teamed up with Jefferies on Friday to refinance its CLO named TCW 2019-2 -
Redding Ridge upsizes 2019 CLO by $321 million
2 years ago
Redding Ridge on Wednesday reset its 2019 CLO named RR 7 via Mizuho, greatly upsizing the transaction -
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 -
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 -
US CLO pricing lab: expensive legacy deals take priority as two-three year point on term curve tightens
2 years ago
The US CLO market may have gapped out in recent weeks, but expensive 2019 and covid-era CLO refis and resets are still in the money -
Weekly reset volumes for 2020 US CLOs surpass $2 billion
2 years ago
Assured Investment Management and Western Asset Management have have become the fourth and fifth managers to reset a post-covid CLO this week -
Apex becomes 90th manager to print a new issue CLO in 2021
2 years ago
Apex Credit Partners priced its first new CLO of the year on Friday, becoming the 90th manager to do a new issue globally in 2021 -
$1.25 billion of CLO refis span range of tenors
3 years ago
The CLO primary market absorbed $1.25 billion of refinancings as American Money Management Corporation, First Eagle Investment Management, PGIM and Alcentra priced cost-cutting transactions, with different reinvestment periods across the pack -
CLO torrent adds $1.5 billion in US refis
3 years ago
The CLO refinancing boom has added another $1.5 billion to deal volume, with Intermediate Capital Group, Octagon Credit Investors, Sound Point Capital Management and Vibrant Capital Partners adding their names to the list of CLO refinanciers -
Euro CLO mezz spreads leak wider but seniors hold firm as ICG resets
3 years ago
European CLO mezzanine reset spreads have widened out slightly this week, highlighted by Intermediate Capital Group’s reset of St Pauls CLO VI via JP Morgan -
Single names hit hard as financial markets play catch-up on rate moves
3 years ago
Credit indices have firmed up after Thursday's rates-led sell off, but other asset classes continue to slide and Friday's focus turns to single name borrower spreads playing a catch-up with the sharp macro move -
February credit gains wiped out as inflation fears rise
3 years ago
A successive move wider in spreads on Tuesday is taking credit back to start of February levels, as investors try to weigh inflation concerns and a US tech stock rout against reopening economies and advancing commodity prices -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: 2020 deals trade at premium
3 years ago
As the primary CLO market continues to grind tighter, the secondary market is holding steady, but last year's vintages are trading well as they near the end of their call-locks -
High yield credits play catch up as central banks put brakes on bull run
3 years ago
High yield single names gained attention on Thursday, as financial markets took a breather after three days of improvement to digest UK and China central bank policy signals -
Italian spreads signal Conte confidence ahead of Senate vote
3 years ago
Italian banks are among the best performers in credit on Tuesday as hopes rise for a vote of confidence in prime minister Giuseppe Conte's government and the CDS market returns to tighter spreads -
Columbia adopts AMR with first new CLO issue since November
3 years ago
Columbia Management has returned to the CLO primary market with its first new issue in over eight months -
Akorn falls into bankruptcy with $321 million planted in CLOs
3 years ago
CLOs hold $321.3 million of specialty pharmaceutical company Akorn’s debt, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-I, with the firm having filed for chapter 11 protection in the US District Court for the District of Delaware yesterday -
Eagle Point cuts dividend payments on listed CLO equity fund
4 years ago
Eagle Point Credit Company has slashed its divident payment by 60% to eight cents a share, down from 20 cents a share, following losses to net asset value in the first quarter as a result of the coronavirus pandemic -
Kayne Anderson CLO trades high as double A investors factor in portfolio health
4 years ago
Demand for high quality mezzanine US CLO paper is picking up, according to trader sources, with the most sought after single As trading at about 425 basis points and the best triple Bs trading at 670bp towards the end of last week -
Credit reels back to January 2019 levels as coronavirus impact spreads
4 years ago
A more positive opening for European credit today proved short-lived, as coronavirus developments caused the market to reverse its modest improvement early on to careen back to some of the widest levels in over a year -
2020 US CLO refi volume passes $5.4 billion as Brigade and Bain price
4 years ago
US CLO refinancing volume this year passed $5.4 billion yesterday as Brigade Capital and Bain Capital together refinanced over $1 billion CLO paper
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