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Investcorp settles on refi for 2019 US CLO about to leave reinvestment
1 month ago
Investcorp this week became the latest manager to add its name to the 2024 refinancing race when it undertook a partial refi of its 2019-vintage US BSL -
CVC refinances 2016 vintage Apidos CLO XXV
1 month ago
CVC Credit Partners has priced a partial refinancing of Apidos CLO XXV. The USD 601m deal is the third-largest refinancing of 2024. -
How many CLOs will be called this year?
1 month ago
Most CLOs are called when loan market prices are high. Distributions and equity NAV are also important, and they suggest that over 30 2017 and 2018 deals are now ripe for redemption -
Ask the market where spreads are heading
2 months ago
Nothing brings the CLO market together like a good moan about the state of the arb. But according to our data, the arbitrage for new-issue US CLOs has remained in the same range for years. -
Churchill adds new private credit CLO to roster
2 months ago
While most market attention in recent weeks has been on the BSL side of the ledger, Churchill announced the pricing of a new USD 298.06m middle market transaction on Friday, the third CLO from Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp and its first of 2024 -
New research says that CLO arb is better than you think, but still not good enough
4 months ago
New research by Barclays’ Powell Eddins and Pranava Boyidapu suggests that CLO arbitrage is in a better place than many investors think, but that BBs are still more attractive -
KKR adds US reset to 2023 tally
4 months ago
In what is likely to be one of the last primary market CLOs to price in 2023, KKR last week reset its 2022-vintage US BSL KKR CLO 43, with Deutsche Bank acting as sole arranger -
European secondary activity quieter as CLO spreads widen further
6 months ago
Activity in the secondary market was quieter for a second week, especially with half-term holidays in the UK, according to market sources -
Structured finance secondary market quiets down as volatility intensifies
6 months ago
Secondary market activity in European structured finance was subdued this week, in the wake of further market volatility sparked by the Israel-Hamas war -
Loan Highlights 3Q23: Loan volumes remain significantly lower than historical averages
7 months ago
Capital markets loan activity continued to struggle in the third quarter of 2023, as issuers in the Americas and Europe held off from tapping markets -
Warwick Capital makes its CLO market debut
8 months ago
Warwick Capital teamed up with Royal Bank of Canada on Wednesday to print its first CLO at $400 million -
TCW prints first new CLO since signing strategic partnership with Lakemore
8 months ago
TCW Group has priced its first new CLO since entering into a strategic partnership with Lakemore Partners to support CLO issuance back in April -
Manager tiering matters, but don’t rely on proxies like WAS or WARF
8 months ago
With manager tiering continuing to dominate CLO primary pricing levels we take a look at the 2021 vintage to see how much difference a manager really makes to deal performance -
Ex-Wellfleet CLO team issues first new CLO under Blue Owl branding
8 months ago
Blue Owl Capital has priced its first CLO backed by broadly syndicated loans under its own branding -
Nochu enters Redding Ridge-managed CLO at reset stage as two 2022 deals merge
9 months ago
Redding Ridge Asset Management priced the largest transaction of the year in the BSL CLO market after merging two 2022-vintage print-and-sprint CLOs -
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. -
Question your assumptions
10 months ago
Valuing CLO paper is complicated, and loan prepayments are one of the trickiest parts. When pricing a new issue CLO, the market generally assumes that 15-20% of loans will prepay their principal annually. This prepayment rate is important because it essentially determines the pace at which a CLO’s rated debt is paid off after the reinvestment period, when the CLO pays down its own principal. -
Global CLO league tables - May 2023 YTD
11 months ago
Global CLO league tables - May 2023 YTD -
CSAM and Five Arrows print Euro CLOs as bwic activity ramps up
11 months ago
Credit Suisse Asset Management and Five Arrows rounded off the week with two new issue European CLOs, while secondary bwic volumes increased week-on-week -
Direct lenders grab larger share of loan market despite fundraising slowdown
11 months ago
With Debtwire’s European direct lending conference in London next Thursday, we speak to market participants about the dynamic between European syndicated loan market and direct lending -
Euro CLO market participants express optimism as Anchorage and Palmer Square price new issues
11 months ago
Two European CLO managers – Anchorage Capital Group (Jefferies) and Palmer Square (BNP) - priced last week, amid an optimistic outlook from the European CLO and leveraged loan outlook panel at Creditflux's Symposium on Wednesday -
Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD
1 year ago
Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD -
US CLO pipeline: Spreads and tenors disperse as six managers eye new issues
1 year ago
Dispersion has come to the fore in the US CLO market with higher tier managers able to price their triple As in the 180-185 basis points range and others up around 200bps. But this week’s pipeline shows there is some divergence in the length of CLOs coming to the market too -
Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD
1 year ago
Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD -
AlbaCore and Anchorage market European CLOs
1 year ago
AlbaCore Capital and Anchorage Group are the latest managers to brave the new issue European CLO market amid market volatility
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