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Elements work against CLO managers in Q3
3 years ago
CLO equity distributions fell in Q3 largely due to factors, such as Libor mismatches, that CLO managers can’t control. But these headwinds could turn in favour of managers in the near future -
Six European CLO managers switch to Ireland after Dutch tax hike
3 years ago
European CLO managers have been rapidly shifting their Netherlands-domiciled SPVs to Irish DAC vehicles, according to sources, including PGIM, Barings and Cairn -
European CLO managers switch legacy deals to originators ahead of Brexit deadline
3 years ago
A few European CLO managers are undertaking house keeping ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period in January, by switching the method by which their legacy CLOs comply with risk retention from sponsor to originator -
Credit fundraising: Dubai manager gets in on the act as direct lending takes off
3 years ago
Shuaa launches credit fund in the Gulf as Ares, Contingency, HPS and Perceptive are among those to close billion-plus funds -
Credit Rendezvous: sometimes you have to dive deep to find value
3 years ago
Some parts of the credit market are fraught with danger, but that does not mean portfolio managers are avoiding them entirely, according to the Credit Rendezvous, Creditflux's 10-page quarterly report eaturing comments from 15 credit experts -
Barings promotes PM to lead European CLO unit
3 years ago
Barings has promoted two members of its European CLO management team, one of which becomes the new head of its European CLO management business -
Credit fundraising: managers build homes for real estate credit funds
3 years ago
The “largest ever real estate credit fund” was one of the fundraising highlights last month as Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies IV fund reached $8 billion on its final close -
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 -
Barings prices second US CLO in a month
3 years ago
Barings has stepped up the pace of its US CLO issuance, pricing its second 2020 new issue yesterday less than one month after pricing its first -
Barings prints largest post-covid European CLO via Natixis
3 years ago
Barings priced the largest European post-covid CLO on Friday in a €452.8 million transaction named Barings Euro CLO 2020-1 -
LP round up: $5 billion flows to credit as private market allocations increase
3 years ago
Global institutional investors allocated nearly $5 billion to credit funds this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
Barings and PGIM win loan and structured credit mandates as pension puts £2.7bn in credit
3 years ago
The firms will manage global syndicated loans, securitised credit, emerging market debt and global high yield credit for Border to Coast Pension Partnership's £2.7 billion ($3.43 billion) multi-asset credit fund -
CLO pipeline: managers prepare to end quarter with a bang
3 years ago
CLO issuance is showing no signs of slowing down as spreads continue to grind tighter and election day draws ever closer -
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 -
Barings brings CLO market tighter with first new issue of 2020
3 years ago
Barings has priced its first regular way new CLO of 2020, and pulled the market a little tighter in the process. The manager teamed up with JP Morgan to print the $350.05 million deal, named Barings CLO 2020-1 -
RBC arranges two US CLO tranche refis
3 years ago
Barings and PineBridge each priced their first US CLO transactions of 2020 after refinancing fixed rate tranches from 2018 vintage deals, according to market sources -
CLO pipeline: Allstate looks to end 15-month new issue absence
3 years ago
Allstate is among those managers looking to issue a CLO as the primary market heads into September, traditionally one of the busiest months in the new issue calendar -
Managers weigh up matters of principal
3 years ago
CLO managers that were able to avoid OC traps made double-digit equity distributions in Q2, despite the headwinds. But these firms tended not to be among those that built the most par -
OC health check: breaches start to take toll on July payment dates
3 years ago
37 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation test failure last week, but this was a falling percentage of those publishing trustee reports and none were fresh breaches -
Credit Rendezvous: record fiscal stimulus provides pick-me-up
3 years ago
Credit markets had a mini bounce-back in the second quarter as central banks poured cash into the economy. But there is great uncertainty about the effects of a second wave of coronavirus. As part of our quarterly report on credit - the Credit Rendezvous - Creditflux spoke to experts across 12 segments of the credit market -
Beneath the triple C: downgrades hold steady as Travelport loses its luggage
3 years ago
For the second month in a row downgrades to triple C steadied, with just under $9 billion of CLO loans falling to this rating across 34 corporate borrowers -
CLO double Bs on sale as sub-investment grade rally fizzles out
3 years ago
After more than a month of rapid tightening, CLO double Bs trended wider last week by roughly 60 basis points, as the market for these sub-investment grade tranches stabilises in the mid-800s -
OC health check: US CLOs show improvement as first euro CLOs breach multiple tests
3 years ago
15 deals reported a breach in an overcollateralisation test last week according to the latest reports available on CLO-i, including one European CLO and 14 US broadly syndicated loan CLOs. -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: US triple Bs edge wider but 2020 bonds trade at a premium
3 years ago
The furious rally that the secondary CLO markets have gone through over the last two weeks was brought a halt by the Federal Reserve’s reminder on Wednesday night that all is still not well with the economy -
Beneath the triple C: downgrade rate slows as $8 billion of CLO loans tumble
3 years ago
May offered some respite to CLO portfolios as corporate downgrades to triple C were reduced heavily - affecting just $6.67 billion of US CLO paper and €1.09 billion of European CLO portfolios
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