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Barings and Barclays bring 2018 refi
19 days ago
The end of last week saw Barings pricing its first deal since January – a USD 375m refinancing of a 2018-vintage CLO -
US CLO pipeline: busy January sets the tone for the year
1 year ago
US CLO new issuance in January has exceeded 2022’s volumes with $6.4 billion priced last month compared to $4.6 billion last year, and the market is showing no signs of slowing down -
Euro CLO league tables: Jefferies wins at a canter as fellow newcomer Palmer Square wins in new issues
1 year ago
A year of turmoil in the CLO market inevitably led to European CLO issuance dropping in 2022 from its record 2021 -
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 -
Euro CLO league tables: Barings €20 million behind PGIM in overall issuance as Jefferies extends lead
1 year ago
The European CLO manager base reaches 41 as six new issues priced for a total of €1.9 billion -
Global CLO league tables - June 2022 YTD
1 year ago
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Global CLO league tables - May 2022 YTD
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You seem familiar
1 year ago
The overlap between European CLOs has risen to 51.6%, but the largest issuers are only slightly more aligned to their peers at 55.19% — so bonds are proving to be an important differentiator -
LP round up: Oak Hill wins $3bn mandate as credit allocations near $10bn in March
2 years ago
Institutional investors revealed over $9.5 billion of allocations to credit funds in March. Oak Hill Advisors walked away with the largest mandate, as US heavyweight pension Calpers allocated a whopping $3 billion across several of its funds -
Global CLO league tables - March 2022 YTD
2 years ago
Global CLO league tables - March YTD -
Euro CLO league tables: primary issuance shuts down amid extreme market volatility
2 years ago
European CLO issuance initially picked up in February with €7.82bn in total pricings, compared to just €2.44bn in January, before extreme market volatility preceding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine halted the primary market. -
Global CLO league tables - February 2022 YTD
2 years ago
Global CLO league tables - Feb YTD -
Global CLO league tables - January 2022 YTD
2 years ago
Global CLO league tables - Jan YTD -
Barings and Benefit Street bring more than $1bn of CLO new issues
2 years ago
Barings and Benefit Street Partners on Thursday became the latest firms to issue new CLOs, bringing more than $1 billion of deals -
CLO pipeline: four US and two European managers prepare first 2021 CLOs
2 years ago
The CLO market is set to carry on roaring with the pipeline as full as ever despite the summer slowdown just around the corner -
CLO pipeline: Man GLG resurfaces from six-year absence as deals exiting call-lock fill pipeline
2 years ago
CLO spreads have leaked out in recent weeks but deal economics are still favourable, encouraging managers to come back to the primary market for the first time this year -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: record level of CLO paper stalls rally
3 years ago
Record levels of primary and secondary CLO supply has left investors spoilt for choice and led to the CLO rally stalling -
CLO pipeline: US adds deals at frenetic pace as Europe catches breath after record start
3 years ago
US CLO investors have numerous deals to consider with 13 new issues and 15 repricings being prepared to flood the market in the coming days -
OC health check: 41 CLOs heal their breaches
3 years ago
147 CLOs breached an over-collateralisation test in October, down from 183 in September. 41 CLOs that breached an OC test in September passed all OC tests in October, most of which had October payment dates -
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 -
Global CLO round-up: fresh start for five year deals as market reopens
3 years ago
The CLO market is still producing deals at a good pace, with $2.6 billion of global issuance last week. Four new issue deals priced in the US with Intermediate Capital Group and NYL Investors pricing their first transactions of the year while CVC Credit Partners made it two and Barings three in 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 -
Managers weigh up matters of principal
3 years ago
CLO managers that were able to avoid OC traps made double-digit equity distributions in Q2, despite the headwinds. But these firms tended not to be among those that built the most par -
OC health check: breaches start to take toll on July payment dates
3 years ago
37 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation test failure last week, but this was a falling percentage of those publishing trustee reports and none were fresh breaches -
Beneath the triple C: downgrades hold steady as Travelport loses its luggage
3 years ago
For the second month in a row downgrades to triple C steadied, with just under $9 billion of CLO loans falling to this rating across 34 corporate borrowers
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