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Bain and Carlyle print five-year reinvestment CLOs with senior triple As at 210bp
1 year ago
Bain Capital Credit and Carlyle Group each issued a new five-year reinvestment CLO on Thursday, with each deal's senior triple A tranche paying a coupon of 210 basis points over Sofr -
CLO counterparties hunt for signs of optimism: SFIG conference
1 year ago
Leveraged loan and CLO investors are hunting for signs of optimism as they face the prospect of a US recession -
Quarterly rankings: Carlyle climbs to top of pack with CBAM boost
1 year ago
Carlyle Group has cemented itself as the largest manager globally, following its acquisition of fellow CLO manager CBAM -
CLOs at a glance (July 2022)
1 year ago
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
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CLO pipeline: large managers defy loan drought to keep market moving
1 year ago
US CLO senior spreads may have blown out to 180-190 basis points over Sofr for five-year deals, and even wider for short-dated new issues, but that will not stop the market from soldiering on -
Carlyle prints new US CLO with triple As at 195bp
1 year ago
Carlyle Group priced its latest new CLO on Friday, placing the deal's triple A notes at 195 basis points over Sofr -
Euro CLO league tables: short on deals but high on drama as new issuance race tightens up
1 year ago
For the second straight month, European CLO volume was below €2 billion, making it the first time there has been back-to-back months of less than €2 billion issued since November and December 2020 -
CSAM does the CLO awards double
1 year ago
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it -
Euro loan slide hits ramped warehouses as Carlyle eyes print and sprint deal
1 year ago
European loans tumbled in May, leaving CLO warehouses under pressure and causing a slowdown in primary issuance -
Carlyle prepares to sprint after taking plunge with "unramped" European CLO
1 year ago
Carlyle Group has produced what is believed to be a rare print-and-sprint CLO in Europe -
Credit funds at a glance (May 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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We’re drifting apart
1 year ago
Everyone’s issuing US CLOs these days and it is tempting to believe the crowd of managers is blending into one. However, overall portfolio overlap has dropped to 37.7% across 2021 CLOs -
Two more seasoned CLOs poised to switch to Sofr based on issuance trigger
1 year ago
CBAM 2018-6 has joined Greywolf III-R and IV-R as another pre-2022 US CLO to switch its benchmark rate from three-month Libor to three-month Sofr after the market hit the same issuance trigger -
Experienced CLO investor set to join Carlyle in New York
1 year ago
Carlyle Group is making a big hire to its CLO investment team in New York -
Carlyle closes CBAM transaction to become largest CLO manager in the world
1 year ago
Carlyle Group has closed a deal to buy the assets of CBAM and has become the largest CLO manager in the world -
Arb work pays off
1 year ago
With day-one arbitrage alone delivering projected CLO cash-on-cash returns of 20-25%, 2021 may have been the best year ever for equity investors — at least until CLO spreads began to widen -
CBAM CLO debt comes into play with reset incentive
1 year ago
Carlyle Group’s acquisition of CBAM for roughly $787 million ($615 million in cash) has underlined that we are in a seller’s market, sources say. But a key part of that deal will be the ability to extend CBAM CLOs through resets -
Quarterly rankings: Wave of acquisitions reshapes CLO market
1 year 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 -
Senior CLO spreads widen again as Carlyle places senior triple As at 146bp
1 year ago
CLO triple A spreads began the week wider in the primary market after Carlyle Group priced a new deal with the seniormost notes yielding Sofr plus 146 basis points -
Carlyle brings first new US CLO of 2022
2 years ago
Carlyle has priced a $407 million US CLO named 2022-1, its first new deal and second overall CLO transaction of 2022 -
CBAM: star power, friends in insurance, and doing things 'my way'
2 years ago
"And now the end is here, and so I face that final curtain... I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and every highway, And more, much more
I did it, I did it my way". Sinatra could easily have been thinking of CBAM when he penned these lyrics. We look back at how a group of experienced CLO officials came together to launch a mega player in the CLO business in no time at all -
Carlyle to become world's biggest CLO manager with deal to buy CBAM assets
2 years ago
Carlyle Group says it is buying CBAM Partners assets in a deal that is set to make the firm the largest CLO manager globally with about $48 billion of CLOs under management. -
Packaging company Schur is painful for European CLOs
2 years ago
The dramatic fall in loans taken out by Austrian flexible plastic packaging manufacturer Schur Flexibles has shocked CLO managers. The firm is hiring PJT Partners and Allen & Overy ahead of a potential restructuring -
CLO pipeline: deals come in two by two hurrah! hurrah!
2 years ago
It is raining CLOs in February and some issuers are preparing for the deluge by printing deals at the double -
Carlyle and Oak Hill give $50 million upsizes to CLOs amid resets
2 years ago
Carlyle Group and Oak Hill Advisors each reset a legacy CLO on Monday, with both managers opting for a substantial upsize of the original deals
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