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Third time's the charm for serially reset US BSL CLO
2 months ago
Benefit Street Partners has reset a 2014 vintage CLO for the third time, bringing triple-A spreads down to 135bps -
Primary loan and bond markets shows signs of revival, but at a cost
9 months ago
Activity in the US junk debt market has picked up after the 4th of July and the momentum is expected to continue through 2H23, but at a cost for issuers. -
Napier Park prints static European CLO
1 year ago
Napier Park has opted to print a static CLO. The €282 million deal has a one-year non-call period. -
Credit Suisse blow out puts financials in spotlight
1 year ago
Credit spreads have pushed wider on Monday, with underperformance in investment grade, as sharp oil price moves accompanied intensified focus on the banking sector amid a slew of worrying commentary on Credit Suisse -
Oaktree prints new US CLO while Deerpath resets mid-market deal
1 year ago
The US CLO market has added to its June transaction tally, with Oaktree Capital pricing a new issue while Deerpath Capital Management reset a 2018 vintage mid-market deal -
Fund outflows extend despite sharp improvement in credit performance
1 year ago
This has been a much better week for credit and equity market performance than last, but that has not stopped the tide of investors looking to withdraw their money from funds for such risk assets -
Credit Fundraising: mega funds contribute to record-breaking month as volume hits $39bn
2 years ago
The sheer size of the funds raised in November more than compensated for a drop in the number of funds raised as fundraising volume in credit reached $38.9 billion. This beat September by $2.4 billion to make it the most productive month of credit fundraising in 2021 -
US travel, energy and retail credits take big hit as variant rout extends
2 years ago
The widening trend in credit is extending as the weekend approaches, with US spreads picking up the baton from Europe's earlier surge -
AIG, Five Arrows and Whitebox join CLO reset gravy train
2 years ago
AIG Asset Management, Five Arrows Managers and Whitebox Capital Management have all reset CLOs, with the three deals amounting to $1.16 billion -
Euro 2020 CLO resets reach €8 billion as Blackstone and Fair Oaks price at similar levels
2 years ago
Blackstone and Fair Oaks Capital took to the European CLO reset market this afternoon with both managers reworking 2020 deals -
Healthcare M&A offers diverging prognoses in high yield as market recuperates
2 years ago
Grifols, the Spanish healthcare business, is making a push wider at odds with rallying markets, having brought €2 billion equivalent of bonds to back its acquisition of European plasma player Biotest -
Octagon slashes 55bp from CLO funding costs by resetting 2020 deal
2 years ago
Octagon Credit Investors has priced the reset of its 2020 deal Octagon Investment Partners 46 by partnering with BNP Paribas. -
Wellfleet issues its largest CLO in almost three years
2 years ago
Wellfleet Credit Partners returned to the CLO primary market on Thursday with its largest new issue deal since 2018 -
Nuveen opts for three-year reinvestment period on latest CLO
2 years ago
Nuveen has opted for a short one-year non-call, three-year reinvestment structure on its new CLO named Symphony CLO XVIII, which priced on Thursday -
Global CLO trading lab: Octagon CLO comes out top in CLO double B spike
2 years ago
Double B-rated bonds made up 40% of the European and US CLO secondary markets last week. $222 million of US CLO double B bonds were on sale and a further €105 million of European CLO double B items were listed -
Euro CLO league tables: cramming a year's worth of work in two months
3 years ago
It is no surprise the European CLO market has been experiencing fatigue at times this year with the last two months of issuance alone almost equalling issuance figures for the whole of 2020: last year €22.78 billion worth of European CLOs priced, while in March and April 2021, managers brought €21.48 billion to market -
CLO heavy hitters push $1.5 billion refi paper into market
3 years ago
Another $1.5 billion CLO refi paper has hit the market after Allstate, Columbia Management, CIFC Asset Management and Credit Suisse Asset Management priced cost-cutting deals -
Beneath the triple C: 13 CLO loans take a dive but defaults subside to a ripple
3 years ago
22 corporate debt issuers were downgraded to triple C or below in November and December by Moody’s or S&P, out of which 13 can be found in CLO portfolios – hurting $4.55 billion of US CLO loans, €1.87 billion of European CLO portfolios and almost $80 million of middle market CLOs loans, according to CLO-i -
Single name shorters get improved entry point after conviction test
3 years ago
Returning market optimism has taken credit spreads back to ultra-tight levels. But for bears, this posits a better entry level for short trades, and the recent blow-out may have given strong pointers where to target them -
Four-year CLOs return to Europe as CBAM makes breakthrough
3 years ago
Citi returns to the European CLO market after a six month hiatus, while CBAM delivers Europe's first four-year CLO post covid -
Western issues first new money CLO since 2014
3 years ago
Western Asset Management made a grand return to the CLO primary market after issuing its first new deal since 2014, according to market sources -
Argentina auction deliverables list points to lower recovery than CDS
3 years ago
Over 30 bonds have made it onto an initial list of deliverable obligations for an auction next week to settle Argentina sovereign CDS. These notes are mainly denominated in US dollars and euros, but some also in Japanese yen and Swiss francs -
Argentina rallies sharply as DC sets credit event auction date
3 years ago
An auction to settle Argentina sovereign CDS will take place next week, the Americas Determinations Committee has said -
European CLO market gets going in a hurry with Redding Ridge three-year deal
4 years ago
The European primary CLO market has gone from being shut for a month to pricing two deals within hours of each other and developing a term curve that is very much in its infancy -
CDX HY and EM trade with fresh legs after defaulted names drop out
4 years ago
New series of US high yield index CDX HY and emerging market index CDX EM begin their first full day of trading today, having replaced outgoing versions on Friday amid a weakening of credit markets due to the spreading impact of the coronavirus outbreak
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