It's All Relative: CQS, Capital Four and Tikehau look for CLO breakthrough as debutant premiums drop
The number of US CLO issuers in 2021 could be about to reach 106 with Capital Four, CQS and Tikehau looking to price debut deals, with price talk set at ambitious levels

Citadel promotes credit head to co-CIO
Citadel has promoted its global credit head to co-chief investment officer

2020 debutant Bridgepoint brings CLO AUM to €1 billion with third new issue
Bridgepoint Capital priced its third ever European CLO on Wednesday, bringing the firm’s CLO assets under management to over €1 billion in just 12 months

Tikehau markets first European CLO new issue since PM change
The deal includes ESG scores on all credits, 'full ESG exclusion policy' and language related to the Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulations

Oaktree raises largest ever fund with $15.9 billion for "opportunistic credit" strategy
Oaktree Capital Management has closed its largest ever fund, collecting a whopping $15.9 billion on its latest opportunistic credit strategy, Oaktree Opportunities Fund XI

CLO issuance set for big slump as managers relax on Sofr: JP Morgan
CLO new issue supply will likely decline sharply from this month to next, with the rush to complete deals ahead of the transition to Sofr base rates having added to November's historical heavy weighting over December, say JP Morgan structured credit strategists

Ares prints first European CLO new issue this year
Ares Management has returned to the European CLO new issue market for the first time in just over a year

Turkey seller's credit spread fattens on clogged supply lines
Christmas is coming, but are the turkeys? In the UK at least, this looks less certain with the credit spreads of one of the biggest suppliers of bird meat gapping wider as it seeks a liquidity injection in the face of labour shortages and supply line problems

Fidelity appoints former CVC official as global head of private assets solutions
Fidelity has hired from CVC to a newly created role of global head of private assets solutions, following the expansion of its private credit businesses earlier this year

Redding Ridge jumps to third spot as it resets 2020 European CLO
JP Morgan reset and upsized Redding Ridge's European CLO, RRE 5

HPS targets $9.5 billion for fifth mezzanine debt fund
HPS Investment Partners is targeting $9.5 billion for its fifth global mezzanine debt fund, HPS Strategic Investment Partners V - but unlike earlier vintages, HPS says it will not target opportunities within the upstream energy space

Nassau debuts in CLO management with Nassau Euro CLO I
Nassau Corporate Credit has become Europe’s latest debut CLO manager, pricing Nassau Euro CLO I via Barclays Friday afternoon

Apollo breaks into CLO co-placement agent role on first Euro third-party deal
Apollo has typically served as co-placement on its own Redding Ridge European CLOs, but on Thursday was co-placement agent on a HPS European CLO new issue

Credit Suisse beefs up European CLO trading with buy side hire
Credit Suisse has run secondary CLO trading – US and European – out of New York for the past few years. But now it has hired a London-based trader

Slow and sustainable trades will win race in '22: BofA
A year on from the US presidential election and unveiling of covid-19 vaccines, the credit compression looks challenged. But 'laggards' and sectors with strong capex growth still hold promise

Elfa launches ESG exclusion checklist to streamline process for CLO managers
The European Leveraged Finance Association has launched an environmental, social and governance exclusion checklist, which it says is designed to “streamline the negative screening and exclusion” for CLO managers

Assured confirms Bain Euro CLO wrap trade
Assured Guaranty has confirmed it guaranteed the triple A tranche of the European CLO

German chemical co gets salty investor reaction despite tasty earnings
Chemical producer K+S Group is a big widener in CDS on Thursday in an otherwise flattish credit market, amid reports Germany's audit office for accounting has found material assumptions the company used in the past were inappropriate

Pemberton closes €1.75 billion strategic credit fund 40% deployed
Pemberton Asset Management has closed its second strategic credit fund, Pemberton Strategic Credit Fund II, at around €1.75 billion

Investcorp reworks 2020 European CLO via BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas arranged the €443 million transaction, which cuts the CLO’s cost of debt by over 18 basis points to 190.3bp

ICG opens Dubai office with senior hire
The firm has hired a senior official from LGT to lead the expansion

Fidelity breaks through with Article 8-aligned European CLO
Fidelity International has paired with Barclays on its first new issue European CLO since lifting out and onboarding MeDirect’s leveraged loan and CLO team

The only way is up: single A investor expresses rates view through BlackRock Euro CLO
BlackRock has printed its second European new issue CLO of 2021, BlackRock European CLO XII, achieving triple A tights in the process

Euro CLO league tables: Jefferies nips ahead of Barclays as overall leader
The European CLO market has added laurels to a record-breaking year with one of the highest issuance months for new paper.

Global CLO league tables - Oct 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Oct 2021 YTD