Lafayette Square hires Prudential's head of impact investing
New York-based impact investment manager Lafayette Square has hired a new head of strategy from Prudential

M&A drives movers in high yield and investment grade
Acquisition talks are having the biggest impact on European credit spreads on Tuesday following the UK bank holiday, with several names moving against an otherwise flat market

It’s all relative: the Cornetto trilogy of CLO triple Bs
CLO arrangers have let their imaginations run wild when assembling triple-B rated notes – not because these have been tricky to shift, but because there is appetite for triple B CLOs that don't taste vanilla. The result is fat, split and overlapping triple Bs 

Redding Ridge goes tight with new $599.3 million CLO
Redding Ridge Asset Management teamed up with Credit Suisse on Friday to print its third new US CLO of 2021

Neuberger Berman resets US CLO more than one year after reinvestment ends
Neuberger Berman has reset a 2015 CLO more than one year after the deal left its reinvestment period

Elmwood launches new CLO series with $529.5 million Logan CLO I
Elmwood Asset Management launched a new series of CLOs on Friday, printing an irregular deal named Logan CLO I

Market absorbs three CLO refinancings worth $1 billion
Apex Credit Partners, Barings and Voya Investment Management have each refinanced a CLO, with the three deals totalling $1.02 billion

Jefferies Credit poaches senior RBC pair for direct lending business
Jefferies Credit Partners has expanded its middle direct lending business with two senior hires

Banks set to offer client clearing of credit index options
Bank members of LCH, the London Stock Exchange's clearing arm, will soon start offering client clearing of CDS index options, as the industry prepares for its next ramp up of margining requirements

Gulf Stream takes CLOs under management to almost $2 billion
Gulf Stream Asset Management has issued its fourth CLO since reentering the market in 2020, bringing its total deals under management up to $1.9 billion

PGIM cuts 2017 CLO's funding costs by 32.2bp with refi
PGIM teamed up with Goldman Sachs to refinance 2019's Dryden CLO 72 on Thursday, reducing the deal's funding costs by 32.17 basis points in the process

AB and NXT reset middle market CLOs
AB Private Credit Investors and NXT Capital both reset middle market CLOs on Thursday with the two deals adding a further $740.8 million to primary market supply

CSOs and index tranches reach sticking point as correlation gets rich
Credit correlation trading looks to have reached a point of inflexion, as the previous bull run at the lower end of index capital stacks has given way to caution over how much further spread compression can go. At the same time, bespoke tranche business is gaining interest but equity remains stickier to sell at the market's ultra-low spread and volatility levels

Amherst Pierpont makes big CLO hire as it looks to re-establish new issue business
Amherst Pierpont is looking to revive its US CLO business and has hired someone to lead this effort

CLO pipeline: and breathe... issuance splurge clears the backlog
Over 20 deals remain in the CLO pipeline, despite a glut of issuance last week in which 38 transactions priced, totalling $18.1 billion

Morgan Stanley flies the banner for Brigade and Maranon new CLOs
Morgan Stanley printed two new CLOs this week after scoring mandates from Brigade Capital Management and Maranon Capital

Oak Hill scores April's largest US CLO
Oak Hill Advisors returned to the primary market on Wednesday to issue the largest new US CLO of the month

CVC cuts triple-A costs with $578 million refi of 2019 CLO
CVC Credit Partners has teamed up with Goldman Sachs to refinance its 2019 CLO named Apidos XXXI

ICG upsizes CLO with rare four-year reset
Intermediate Capital Group has priced a CLO reset with an unusual four-year reinvestment extension

Carlson produces second CLO from its JV
Carlson Capital has priced its second CLO via Jefferies since entering into an strategic partnership with the bank and Hildene Capital Management to support its CLO issuance

CLO risk retention financier hires Natixis structured credit syndication head
Natixis is the latest bank to lose a senior member of its CLO team 

US pension terminates three credit mandates due to 'underperformance' and relative value
The New Mexico pension terminated one multi-asset credit mandate and two bank loan mandates

Apollo establishes $1 billion credit secondaries platform
Apollo says it formed the platform to capitalise on the explosive growth of private credit, as well as addressing related liquidity or portfolio needs from underlying investors

Apollo poaches two US CLO structurers as sell-side exodus continues
Apollo Global Management has snapped up US CLO structurers from Bank of America and Barclays in what is fast amounting to mass migration away from CLO origination roles