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Largarde snowballs puncture complacent calm and shocks spreads wider
1 year ago
Credit markets are ending the week on a big push wider, after European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde delivered the surprise that had been missing from other central bank messaging -
UK nerves rattle Europe/US relative value trades, as Hunt seeks to reassure investors
1 year ago
A palpable mood of trepidation on Thursday around the UK’s autumn budget has brought widening of credit spreads, with European indices giving back gains they have made in recent sessions versus their US counterparts -
CIFC's seventh new US CLO of year takes tally to $3.3 billion
1 year ago
CIFC Asset Management priced its seventh US CLO of the year on Friday, bringing its yearly issuance volumes to $3.3 billion and climbing to fifth on the manager leaderboard -
Five Arrows and Cross Ocean print Euro CLOs with triple As at 200bp
1 year ago
Five Arrows Managers and Cross Ocean both priced European CLO triple As at 200 basis points over Euribor - one has a 4.5-year and the other a one-year reinvestment period -
Credit fights for purchase amid swirl of darkening storm
1 year ago
Investors are attempting to peer out of the gloom after a heavy sell off, but meancing clouds gather over Europe especially in the form of weak manufacturing numbers, a sub-dollar euro, spiralling gas costs, and the threat of lower Gulf oil production -
Blackstone and MS Eaton Vance new CLOs achieve market-beating triple As
2 years ago
Blackstone Credit and Morgan Stanley Eaton Vance each priced a new CLO on Friday with triple A spreads around 132 basis points - among the tightest first-pay prints of recent weeks -
Covid fourth wave lockdowns hit credit with travel cos under pressure
2 years ago
A flattish week in credit gave way to a spread widening move on Friday, as investor concern focused on a fourth wave of covid-19 cases in Europe and further signs of Chinese economic slowdown -
Mid market CLO league tables: stalwarts Golub and Natixis reign supreme again
2 years ago
It may have taken seven months, but the mid market CLO league tables have familiar faces at the top with Golub Capital and Natixis leading the way in manager and arranger issuance, respectively -
Elements work against CLO managers in Q3
3 years ago
CLO equity distributions fell in Q3 largely due to factors, such as Libor mismatches, that CLO managers can’t control. But these headwinds could turn in favour of managers in the near future -
Marathon prices first new issue CLO of 2020
3 years ago
Marathon Asset Management has completed its first new issue CLO of 2020 -
OC health check: August reports slow torrent of fresh breaches to a trickle
3 years ago
198 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation (OC) breach in August, only three of which were completely new breaches. This is a slowdown from July, when 230 deals suffered some kind of OC breach, according to the latest reports from CLO-i -
US CLO league tables: light at the end of the tunnel as primary revives
3 years ago
May brought a rise in US CLO primary market activity with a combined $5.55 billion in new issuance for the month -
US CLO league tables: coronavirus brings changes in approach and new top manager
3 years ago
Amid a big slump in CLO primary issuance, new deals have taken focus and there are some notable changes at the top of the league tables -
Longview Power turns to coal for handful of CLOs
4 years ago
CLOs hold $43.9 million of the debt of US power company LongView Power, which filed for Chapter 11 in the District of Delaware yesterday -
Who's got the moves Europe: TV producer's loans rally most as recovery begins
4 years ago
The S&P/LSTA European Leverage Loan Index ended the week at 82.98 on 3 April – recovering 4.06 points from 78.92 on 24 March which was the lowest point for the index since the 2008 financial crisis. -
US CLO league tables: $2 billion reissue fires Apollo and JP Morgan to top spots
4 years ago
Apollo Global Management and JP Morgan teamed up to price the largest CLO of the 2.0 era in February that helped propel both to the top of the US CLO and global CLO league tables -
Global CLO round-up: welcome back, give us a (refi) wave
4 years ago
Tighter corporate credit spreads means new issue volumes are down, but it makes a decent entry point for new CLO managers to price deals and also makes refinancing CLOs imperative -
Investcorp prices Europe's first new issue CLO of 2020 amid high demand
4 years ago
Investcorp Credit Management yesterday brought Europe’s first new issue CLO of the year, with pricing levels showing a big spread tightening across rating bands -
CSAM prices sixth new issue US CLO of 2019, passing $4 billion new issue volume
4 years ago
Credit Suisse Asset Management’s new issue US CLO volume yesterday surpassed $4 billion as the firm priced a $797.2 million deal named Madison Park Funding XXXVI -
TCW takes advantage of lower base rate to price new CLO
4 years ago
TCW's second new CLO of the year has made use of a rallying market since its last venture in February -
THL anchor CLO equity seeks purchase in secondary market
4 years ago
Up for auction later today is the 15th controlling stake in a US CLO this year, with nine of the previous 14 having failed to trade -
Axa IM prices first CLO refinancing since 2017
4 years ago
Axa Investment Managers refinanced its 2016 CLO, Allegro CLO IV yesterday via Goldman Sachs. The $440 million transaction knocks 22 basis points off of CLO’s funding cost from 200.1bp to 178.1bp. -
Octagon prices triple As at 130bp in new US CLO
4 years ago
Octagon Credit Investors priced its fourth new issue US CLO of 2019 yesterday, making it the firm’s seventh transaction this year with two resets and a reissue. -
US CLO league tables: new issue deals bring 2018 volumes to $140 billion
5 years ago
Half a year in and we’ve seen $140.7 billion worth of CLO activity in the broadly syndicated loan CLO market – just $4 billion behind H1 2017’s ground breaking volumes -
Chicago manager prices its first mid market CLO of 2018
6 years ago
A manager priced its first CLO transaction of the year on Friday via Wells Fargo
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