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Beneath the triple C: CLOs benefit as upgrades make for lighter triple C buckets
3 years ago
For the first time since the sell off in March last year, downgrades to triple C have come to a near-standstill -
Los Angeles pension seeks global credit manager for $880 million mandate
3 years ago
Flush with cash? The Los Angeles Water & Power Employees' Retirement Plan has launched a request for proposal for its ‘active extended global credit’ mandate. But only managers with $50 billion under management need apply -
Spire inserts triple A loan tranche in European CLO reset
3 years ago
Bank of America arranged the €411.4 million transaction, which includes split triple A, pari-passu tranches in loan and note formats -
Barclays pulls levers as CVC resets and GoldenTree CLO surpasses Spire leverage
3 years ago
Barclays added to its arranging volume on Friday as GoldenTree Asset Management priced the market's highest levered European CLO -
BofA forecasts record European CLO volume in 2021 as another reset prices
3 years ago
Carlyle Group has become the first manager in March to reset a European CLO, while BofA estimates the European CLO market might break a new record in 2021 -
Oaktree resets European CLO at market tights
3 years ago
JP Morgan printed a €372 million reset of Oaktree Capital Management’s Arbour CLO IV on Friday afternoon, according to market sources. The deal points to further spread compression for CLO reset transactions, particularly for mezzanine tranches -
Debutant Jefferies takes Euro CLOs to €2 billion in under two weeks with Hayfin reset
3 years ago
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" is a famous injunction associated with the Emerald City. But it is hard not to notice the woman-led team at Jefferies driving CLO volume, given it passed another impressive landmark on Thursday by resetting Hayfin Capital's inaugural Emerald CLO I -
KKR pushes for nearly five-year reinvestment as Redding Ridge resets €554 million CLO
3 years ago
The European CLO reset wave is proceeding apace with KKR and Redding Ridge pricing deals on Tuesday -
Carlyle adds equity and seeks tight pricing with 2016 European CLO reset
3 years ago
Carlyle Group is looking to add equity and price triple A debt tight to the primary CLO market with a €434.3 million reset of its 2016 transaction, Carlyle Global Market Strategies Euro CLO 2016-2 -
Euro CLO repricing hits €4bn as Jefferies arranges first deal and Investcorp drops double Bs
3 years ago
Spread compression is driving European CLO refinancing activity, with three transactions pricing on Friday: Carlyle Euro CLO 2017-2, Harvest CLO XVI and Man GLG Euro CLO III -
Basis between resets and new issues collapses as CVC prints Euro triple As at 83bp
3 years ago
CVC has reset and upsized a 2014 vintage European CLO, CVC Cordatus Loan Fund IV -
Investcorp preps first CLO refi in Europe with triple and double Bs since 2019
3 years ago
Investcorp Credit Management is working with Deutsche Bank to refinance six tranches of its 2018-vintage CLO named Harvest XVI -
European CLO triple As go tighter still as KKR prints at 83bp
3 years ago
Triple A spreads ground tighter in January with KKR’s latest European CLO -
January European CLO volume shoots to €2.9 billion as Five Arrows refis 2017 deal
3 years ago
It has been a busy start to the year for European CLO investors, despite new issues having been slow to get going. Five Arrows is the latest manager to take advantage by refinancing a 2017 vintage CLO - Contego CLO I -
HPS refis European CLO triple As at 64bp with six months of reinvestment left
3 years ago
HPS Investment Partners has refinanced its inaugural European CLO, Aqueduct European CLO 2017-1 -
Goldman markets refinancing of HPS's debut European CLO
3 years ago
Goldman Sachs is marketing a refinancing of HPS Investment Partners’ debut European CLO -
Single name shorters get improved entry point after conviction test
3 years ago
Returning market optimism has taken credit spreads back to ultra-tight levels. But for bears, this posits a better entry level for short trades, and the recent blow-out may have given strong pointers where to target them -
[update] Beneath the triple C: theme parks take portfolios on downward ride
3 years ago
Seven corporate debt issuers were downgraded to triple C or below in September by Moody’s or Standard and Poor’s – hurting $2.16 billion of US CLO loans and €1.16 billion of European CLO portfolio. The pace of CLO loan downgrades to triple C has slowed steadily since the peak in April -
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 -
78-item b-wic hits market as European CLO spreads dislocate
3 years ago
A mammoth 78 item European CLO b-wic totalling €130.7 million is on sale today at 9am New York time (2pm UK time) and is rumoured to come from an investor liquidating its portfolio -
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 -
Matalan auction initial bids point to lower than expected CDS pay out
3 years ago
Early bidding in a credit event auction today to settle CDS referencing UK retailer Matalan indicates the final result will be higher than predicted by recent five-year quotes but roughly in line with modelled recoveries -
Beneath the triple C: slowest downgrade pace puts market in recovery mode
3 years ago
The CLO market recovery is starting to benefit from borrower downgrades falling to their slowest rate since the coronavirus crisis began in March -
Hema and Matalan deliverable lists outline payouts for CDS
3 years ago
Only one bond looks to be deliverable into a credit event auction to settle Hema CDS contracts, while two notes will be deliverable into Matalan CDS contracts -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO triple As finally rally while European investors go ‘all in’
3 years ago
A huge supply of $731 million of US CLO triple A bonds pushed US CLO secondary volumes to just shy of $1.5 billion last week
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