High yield / loan slowdown affects year-end projections and pricing: Barclays
A sharp decline in primary market activity means expectations for high yield bond and even leveraged loan issuance need to be lowered, say Barclays credit strategists. And that in turn has implications for relative value

Anchorage leapfrogs up CLO league table with first bond-flex deal of year
Anchorage Capital moves back into the top 20 US CLO managers in 2022 by volume, having priced its first bond-flex deal of the year

Former JP Morgan CIO head of CLO investments lands at big asset manager
An experienced CLO investor, known for buying triple A rated CLO paper for over a decade, has landed at an asset management firm

Antares upsizes billion-dollar CLO in third-largest primary transaction of 2022
Antares Capital reset its 2018-2 CLO via Deutsche Bank on Thursday, in the third-largest primary market transaction of the year at $1.06 billion

Blackstone achieves tightest US CLO debt stack in over a month
Blackstone Credit has secured the tightest debt execution for a five-year reinvestment CLO in over a month, printing a new deal with funding costs of 193.12 basis points

Octagon prints largest CLO in over two and a half years
Octagon Credit Investors priced a $610.2 million CLO on Thursday, its largest new issue deal since October 2018

CIFC prices fourth US CLO of year while Bain prints third
CIFC Asset Management and Bain Capital Credit each priced a new CLO on Wednesday, with the two deals totalling over $1 billion in new issuance

CLO market and congress plead with SEC to extend rule comment period to 90 days
SEC rule proposals are no page-turners: members of the US congress are looking to extend comment periods from 30 days to 90 days. Recent SEC rule proposals require commentors to read and analyse roughly 3,570 pages and respond to 2,260 individually identified questions   

Deerpath senior CLO tranche reaches 195bp to shed light on mid-market pricing
Deerpath Capital Management has revealed mid-market CLO pricing levels in the primary market after disclosing discount margins on its new issue, which priced on Monday 

Carlyle closes CBAM transaction to become largest CLO manager in the world
Carlyle Group has closed a deal to buy the assets of CBAM and has become the largest CLO manager in the world

AB upsizes 2019 mid market CLO by $48 million with reset
AB has reset its 2019 middle market CLO named ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO VI, upsizing the deal by $47.4 million including $7.72 million new equity

Oak Hill gets off mark in 2022 with first CLO since acquisition
Oak Hill on Thursday priced its first new US CLO of 2022

Palmer Square prices tight with largest new US CLO of 2022
Palmer Square Capital Management on Thursday priced the largest new CLO of 2022 at $800 million

Sofr, so complicated
At Creditflux’s US CLO Summit debate centred on Libor and Sofr. Hot topics included tenors, Libor floors being out-of-the money and investors changing their views on spread adjustments

Oaktree seeks US-based head of CLO capital markets
Oaktree Capital Management is looking to hire a head of CLO, capital markets, with the US-based person working alongside Oaktree’s US senior loans and CLO strategy

CLO ETF crowd grows as Janus Henderson ETF passes $1bn
CLO exchange traded funds are flourishing as investors flock to floating rate assets, and New York-based managers AXS and VanEck are taking advantage by registering CLO ETFs with US regulators

Managers debate ethics of investments in arms makers

Pipeline planning drives rise in captive CLO equity funds
There’s never been a better time to raise CLO captive funds. That’s according to Credit Suisse’s head of CLO new issues Brad Larson, who spoke about the benefits of such funds at Creditflux’s CLO Investors Summit in New York last month

Arb work pays off
With day-one arbitrage alone delivering projected CLO cash-on-cash returns of 20-25%, 2021 may have been the best year ever for equity investors — at least until CLO spreads began to widen  

Fund performance: Credit slumps widely as CLOs lag furthest behind
February’s market turn brought a variety of fund categories into the Creditflux top ten as six different categories were represented -- US high yield standing tallest among them

Credit hedge funds (April 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (April 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit  

Ucits at a glance: Long-short funds provide resistance in tough month
In February, Ucits funds followed market sentiment as 90% made negative returns

CLOs at a glance (April 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month  

Attack-minded CLO managers capitalise on bearish outlook
Some of the most aggressive CLO managers have benefited from loan market volatility in March after having tweaked their portfolios in the months beforehand