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Blue Owl prices third deal this year
2 months ago
Blue Owl has priced its second private credit CLO of 2024, and its third deal this year overall, with a near-USD 600m transaction on Wednesday -
LP round up: opportunistic credit dominates as investors allocate $2.2 billion
1 year ago
US institutional investors invested at least $2.2 billion to credit funds in March, according to documents seen by Creditflux, with opportunistic credit funds dominating commitments -
PennantPark prints this week's second new middle market CLO
1 year ago
Issuance for middle market CLOs by deal count for the week overtook figures for broadly syndicated CLOs on Thursday after PennantPark Investment Advisers priced a new $297.8 million transaction -
Mid market CLO triple A spreads at 255bp after AB prices
1 year ago
AllianceBernstein priced a new middle market CLO named ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO XII on Wednesday, with the deal's triple A notes scoring a Sofr plus 255 basis point print -
Beneath the triple C: Life could be better, but it’s just a letter, under the CCC
1 year ago
Many market participants were eagerly looking forward to a break in December after a gruelling year, but the rating agencies were in no mood to oblige. -
KKR's 2022 US CLO volumes climb to $3.5 billion after eighth new issue
1 year ago
KKR Credit priced its eighth new US CLO of the year on Monday, bringing its new issuance volumes for 2022 to $3.5 billion -
Beneath the triple C: Stormy October hits CLOs with rising tide of downgrades
1 year ago
After a slight respite in the pace of downgrades over the summer for CLOs, October brought renewed momentum as macro-economic pressures - primarily high interest rate burdens for corporate borrowers and supply side inflation - became the recurring rationale -
CVC and PGIM add to European CLO new issue surge
1 year ago
CVC and PGIM joined Ares, Neuberger and Oaktree in pricing new issues last week -
CQS returns to Euro market with first new CLO since 2015
1 year ago
CQS has priced its first European CLO in seven and a half years, opting for a short reinvestment and non-call period -
Triple A CLOs continue to gap out in primary as Partners scores 195bp coupon
1 year ago
Partners Group priced its latest CLO on Wednesday, with senior triple A notes paying a coupon of 195 basis points over Sofr, as spreads for first-pay tranches in the primary market trend wider at a rapid pace -
European credit rallies in stark discord with deepening Ukraine crisis
2 years ago
Cognitive dissonance looks to be afoot in the credit market on Wednesday, with indices rallying for a second day even as Russian and Ukrainian spreads move to new wides -
European panic over Ukraine pushes market to new wides
2 years ago
European underperformance of US credit has resumed at the start of the week, with the market waking up on Monday morning to another sharp sell off. But the lengthening downturn has some believing spreads have overshot, while others insist worse is to follow -
New Carlson and Silver Rock CLOs pull daily issuance over $2 billion yet again
2 years ago
Daily CLO issuance volume on Tuesday surpassed $2 billion for the second consecutive day, with the total including new deals from Carlson Capital and Silver Rock -
Jefferies brings two CLOs to market and takes US CLO arranging total past $20 billion
2 years ago
Jefferies has brought two CLOs to market to take its arranging total past $20 billion -
BlackRock issues low levered, mid-market CLO with two arrangers
2 years ago
BlackRock has priced its second CLO of the year backed by loans to middle market companies -
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 -
Marble Point scores CLO market's first sub-90bp refi print since March
2 years ago
Marble Point Capital Management has become the first CLO manager to refinance a triple A CLO inside 90 basis points in the second quarter -
AIG joins ranks of post-covid CLO resetters
2 years ago
AIG Asset Management became the 12th manager to reset a post-covid CLO on Tuesday, teaming up with Natixis to rework AIG CLO 2020-1 -
It’s all relative: the Cornetto trilogy of CLO triple Bs
3 years ago
CLO arrangers have let their imaginations run wild when assembling triple-B rated notes – not because these have been tricky to shift, but because there is appetite for triple B CLOs that don't taste vanilla. The result is fat, split and overlapping triple Bs -
Muzinich amasses €342 million on third close for European direct lending fund
3 years ago
Muzinich Pan-European II Private Debt Fund is a lower mid-market European direct lending fund -
Broad sell off resumes as government yields head north
3 years ago
Caution is returning at the end of a stronger week for credit, as government bond yields resume their push higher. Asian and European markets followed the US lead from Wednesday with ubiquitous widening of spreads across indices and single names -
It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
3 years ago
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter -
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 -
It's all relative: senior CLO tranches tighten 18% in Europe as CDS indices sit out rally
The corporate credit rally in January is notable because some assets tightened to levels not seen in over a decade (loans), others rallied albeit with a lag (CLOs) and the most liquid stream of credit (CDS indices) defied moves in other asset classes to widen
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