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Credit retreats from wides, but worrisome test levels remain in view
1 year ago
Another rocky week for markets is ending with credit finding a firmer tone. But big questions remain unanswered about relative value and the levels some sectors could test -
Quadruple winner Redding Ridge celebrates with new European CLO
1 year ago
Redding Ridge picked up four trophies in awards season (in contrast to one Premier League football team which is labouring in a similar pursuit) and it has struck while the iron is hot to print a new European CLO -
US CLO triple As end week at 154bp as Napier Park and Rockford Tower print deals
1 year ago
Napier Park Global and Rockford Tower Capital Management priced new CLOs on Friday, with each manager printing their triple A notes at 154 basis points over Sofr -
Macro woes have dented CLO and loan outlook: Barclays
1 year ago
Rising interest rates and elevated macro volatility have negatively impacted the performance outlook for both loans and CLOs, according to Barclays credit strategists -
US CLO league tables: Blackstone gets back to business as it rises to the top
1 year ago
Blackstone is no longer the largest CLO manager globally (it lost that title in March). But it is the most prolific issuer in 2022 -
US CLO refis return with Angelo Gordon pricing first since February
1 year ago
Angelo Gordon refinanced its Northwoods Captital 22 CLO on Tuesday, completing the first successful CLO refi in two and a half months -
SEC's CDS proposals could impede market rather than help it: Barclays
1 year ago
New rules proposed by the US Securities & Exchange Commissions to tighten oversight of the CDS market could mean big changes for the market and have the effect of sapping activity, warn Barclays credit strategists in a note published on Thursday -
High yield / loan slowdown affects year-end projections and pricing: Barclays
2 years ago
A sharp decline in primary market activity means expectations for high yield bond and even leveraged loan issuance need to be lowered, say Barclays credit strategists. And that in turn has implications for relative value -
Oak Hill gets off mark in 2022 with first CLO since acquisition
2 years ago
Oak Hill on Thursday priced its first new US CLO of 2022 -
US loans recover but CLOs lag and issuance stutters
2 years ago
The US leveraged loan market spent the latter half of March recovering losses from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with prices now above where they were when the war started -
Elmwood opts for fat triple Bs in new CLO
2 years ago
Elmwood has added so-called "fat" triple Bs into its latest new CLO named Logan CLO III -
CLOs look attractive after corporate rally - but not all tranches: Barclays
2 years ago
Rallying corporate cash credit spreads over the past two weeks have widened the basis with CLOs and made these products look attractive again, according to Barclays strategists -
Hidden loan tail risks and mounting single B exposure could pose problem for CLOs: Barclays
2 years ago
A solid rally for leveraged loans this week - against returning weakness in bonds - has put focus back on the market, which seemingly has little tail risk priced in. But short term support factors and a dwindling triple C bucket mask the quality skew, warn Barclays strategists in a note today - which could spell downgrades for single-B minus rated loans -
Global CLO league tables - March 2022 YTD
2 years ago
Global CLO league tables - March YTD -
CLO managers price with short, medium and long reinvestments as pricing widens
2 years ago
Ares Management, Golub Capital Partners and Partners Group each priced a new CLO on Friday, with each manager taking a different approach to the various duration structures that have arisen amid the current market volatility -
Volatility has teed up decompression trades: Barclays
2 years ago
Recent credit market turbulence has brought relative value trading opportunities between cash bonds and CDS, credit and equity as well as between investment grade and high yield, particularly in Europe -
Global CLO league tables - February 2022 YTD
2 years ago
Global CLO league tables - Feb YTD -
CLO equity could get hurt by mismatch in credit spread adjustments: Barclays
2 years ago
The possibility that borrowers and sponsors start to use their clout to scrap credit spread adjustments from leveraged loans poses a risk for new CLO equity, while legacy deals also face transition challenges -
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 -
A long time ago in a Galaxy CLO far, far away (October 2018 to be precise)...
2 years ago
PineBridge Investments has made a long-awaited return to the US CLO primary market by pricing its first new issue in over three years -
New issue brings Diameter's CLOs under management above CBOs for first time
2 years ago
Diameter Capital's regular-way CLOs under management overtook its issuance numbers for bond-flex CLOs on Friday -
BlueBay opens up with first public US CLO
2 years ago
BlueBay Asset Management has made the breakthrough with its first ‘public’ US CLO with Barclays pricing BBAM US CLO I -
Acer Tree flowers with debut European CLO
2 years ago
The CLO market welcomed a new manager on Friday as Acer Tree Investment Management priced its inaugural deal via Barclays -
Europe outpaces US as investors scramble to cover their shorts
2 years ago
Lifting of short positions has helped take European credit into a second successive day of outperformance against the US, with financial companies and some of the more recently volatile high yield names leading the way -
Europe leads relief rally with energy and peripheral bank credits outperforming
2 years ago
Credit spreads are making a broad move tighter on Tuesday, with European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde having tried to rein back rate hike expectations and oil company BP posting strong profits
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