CSAM gets happy ending as CLO 69 prices
Credit Suisse Asset Management continued its rapid pace of new CLO issuance today, pricing its latest new deal with a tight print

US loan volume nears record levels
In Q1 2024 quarterly institutional loan issuance reached its second highest level on record. The period also saw the lowest quarterly share of new money issuance, at just 13% of total activity

Fund performance
In February, CLO funds once again claimed the majority of top positions in our fund ranking — this time taking eight of the top 10 spots (see table below).

Axa refis 2018 vintage US CLO
The start of the week saw Axa Investment Managers price its first deal since October, with a partial refi of its Allegro CLO IX deal

2020 CLO gets a reset and a big upsize
AGL Credit Management has priced a reset of AGL CLO 9, a 2020 BSL CLO, with a USD 123m upsize in the debt tranches 

Onex is latest manager to reset a 2020 vintage
Onex Credit Partners has reset its OCP CLO 2020-20 deal, joining other 2020 resets like Flatiron CLO 20 and Owl Rock CLO III

CSAM prices third new US CLO of the year
Credit Suisse Asset Management printed its third new US CLO of 2024 yesterday

European companies reprice EUR 16bn of loans in 2024 as window opens
When the European loan market started to talk about rates peaking late in 2023, repricing rehearsed a comeback, but did so effectively in January this year

Blackstone goes big for new US CLO
Blackstone yesterday priced its second deal of the year and first new issue, an upsized US BSL CLO that is the second-largest deal of the year

Carlyle and Citi continue reset wave with rework of 2019 US CLO
Carlyle Group last week reset its largest CLO from 2019, market sources said, once again in partnership with Citi, who acted as the sole arranger after having arranged both the original deal and its refi in 2021

AB adds MM CLO reset to its roster
Although most attention over the past week has been focused on the BSL market, AllianceBernstein has been active in the middle market arena, with a reset of its 2019-vintage ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO V

Oaktree grows business with new US CLO
Sneaking in with one of January’s last pricing deals, Oaktree Capital Management priced its latest offering yesterday, in a USD 405m US BSL CLO arranged by Morgan Stanley

Carlyle adds new US CLO
Carlyle Group priced one of the tighter US BSL prints thus far this year in partnership with Citi as the primary market kicked into overdrive with an array of deals

Beechbrook hires new managing director to expand UK direct lending business
London-headquartered Beechbrook Capital has hired Richard Smart as managing director tasked with growing the European lower-mid-market debt manager's UK direct lending strategy

Full-year 2023 European Leveraged Highlights
Debtwire has released the full-year 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, containing key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets

CLO market round-up: holiday cheer hits as US senior spreads move in
The holiday period saw a brace of end-of-year US deals pricing, with a range of new issues, resets and a refi to lead the market into 2024, and senior spreads move firmly back in the 160s.

Captive equity is still an option as Carlyle raises fund
Despite predictions of poor returns, captive equity funds can still be raised. The latest manager to hit the market is Carlyle Group, the world’s largest CLO manager according to our 3Q23 Creditflux rankings. According to market sources, Carlyle is raising a half-billion-dollar equity fund, which is expected to be complete by the end of the year.

November 2023 European Leveraged Highlights
Debtwire today releases the November 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, containing key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets

Irradiant launches new captive equity fund
Irradiant Partners closed its latest captive equity fund today, with the third vintage of the Irradiant CLO equity strategy bringing in USD 411m in commitments

KKR makes it four US CLOs this year
KKR last week priced its biggest CLO of the year, a half-billion-dollar new-issue US transaction, in a deal arranged by Citi

State of the US Loan Market 3Q23 - Xtract Special Report
The US leveraged loan market continued to languish in 3Q23, but the average covenant score for large Sponsor loans bounced back somewhat from its precipitous decline in 2Q23 according to this special report

DebtDynamics EMEA | Under pressure: likely-to-distress scores highlight struggling industries and regional woes
The European leveraged market has crossed the threshold of 100 companies at the stressed/distressed lifecycle stage, according to Debtwire data

Structured finance secondary market quiets down as volatility intensifies
Secondary market activity in European structured finance was subdued this week, in the wake of further market volatility sparked by the Israel-Hamas war

European CLOs win out against US deals
Last month, our analysis explored the performance of US CLOs that were previously reset. We found that they delivered higher distributions than deals which weren’t reset, with the exception of the 2017 and 2018 vintages (Creditflux September 2023 — Do resets help CLOs perform better?). This article expands that analysis to the European market, and compares the performance of US BSL and EU CLO equity tranches.

KKR prices third US CLO this year
Bank of America arranged a new USD 402.7m deal US CLO for KKR yesterday