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Marathon sees value in Sofr CLO tranche over fixed-rate option
2 years ago
Marathon Asset Management stole a march on other CLO issuers by including a Sofr tranche as part of a new issue transaction on 10 November via Bank of America. Officials at the company say the Sofr tranche makes a compelling alternative to a fixed-rate tranche -
Market ponders Sofr spread adjustment amid investor lag
2 years ago
The CLO market is waving goodbye to Libor as a benchmark rate and transitioning to alternatives for the first time in the history of the asset class. But there is no consensus as to what the Sofr spread adjustment should be, and some of the largest buyers are said to be slow to consider the impact of a benchmark transition -
Sofr/Libor CLO basis rises to 20bp as Marathon prints double As with alternative benchmark
2 years ago
Bank of America has inked the second Sofr CLO tranche as part of a $429.6 million new issue deal for Marathon Asset Management -
Credit funds at a glance (July 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Credit funds at a glance (May 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Four managers win lucrative $700 million credit mandate
3 years ago
A $39 billion pension has selected four managers for an opportunistic credit mandate and identified a further four ‘bench’ managers -
Marathon prints $407.2 million CLO via Citi
3 years ago
Marathon Asset Management teamed up with Citi on Tuesday to print a $407.2 million new issue CLO -
Credit fundraising: January proves anything but dry for manager inflows
3 years ago
After a tough and unpredictable year, January may have been seen by many as an opportunity for a fresh start. But for seven managers it meant holding final closes on funds, while three undertook first closes and one a fund launch -
AMMC and Marathon refinance CLOs due to leave reinvestment in April
3 years ago
Another $800 million of CLO refi paper has been absorbed by the market after American Money Management Corporation and Marathon Asset Management cut financing costs for CLOs set to leave reinvestment in April -
LP round up: Monroe and Angelo Gordon beat 25 for direct lending mandate, as private credit plans brew
3 years ago
US public pension funds have disclosed $1.2 billion in commitments to credit focused strategies -
Credit rally slows but structured finance funds gain
3 years ago
Corporate credit spreads levelled off in September, which means that 63% of funds in the Creditflux database have just a single quarter left to make it to positive returns for the calendar year. -
Fund performance: Structured finance finds its footing with credit rally
3 years ago
For the first time this year we have seen a structured finance fund take the top spot, as Serone Key Opportunities Fund leads a multitude of other funds in this category in the top 10 of our monthly fund rankings -
OC health check: CLOs wake up when September ends
3 years ago
September showed a slight but clear improvement in CLOs’ over-collateralisation test results as 182 CLOs breached an OC test during the reporting period, compared to 198 in August. -
Marathon prices first new issue CLO of 2020
3 years ago
Marathon Asset Management has completed its first new issue CLO of 2020 -
Four US CLO refis highlight diverging manager strategies
3 years ago
Four US CLO managers - Ares Management, GSO Capital Partners, Marathon Asset Management and Voya Alternative Asset Management - have each refinanced fixed-rate CLO tranches, with the four deals totalling $69 million in paper. But new strategies are beginning to emerge -
OC health check: CLOs heal up with no new breaches among US BSL deals
3 years ago
53 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation (OC) test breach last week, but only two CLOs breached an OC test for the first time, neither of which were US broadly syndicated loan CLOs -
OC health check: slowing of downgrades offers some reprieve for CLOs stuck in breach
3 years ago
89 deals reported overcollateralisation breaches last week, but only seven of these deals were breaching any OC test for the first time, according to the latest reports available on CLO-i -
OC health check: some CLOs cure failures, but quarter of US deals still in breach
3 years ago
117 deals failed over-collateralisation tests in the last week, although only 46 of these were deals reporting breaches for the first time, according to the latest reports available on CLO-i -
OC health check: interest diversion failures foreshadow breaches
3 years ago
14 CLOs reported over-collateralisation test breaches last week, five for the first time, according to the latest trustee reports available on CLO-i. -
Who’s got the moves US: oil and gas leads renaissance for US CLO managers
3 years ago
The US leveraged loan market has held steady over the last two weeks. After rising to just below 87 of par in mid-April, the S&P LSTA US Leveraged Loan index closed at 85.75 to start this week -
OC health check: failures lift above 100 as five more deals breach senior test
4 years ago
Another 116 CLOs have breached their overcollaterisation tests in the last week, according to the latest trustee reports on CLO-i. Out of this, five deals have failed OC tests for all classes – bringing the overall tally of deals that have breached senior OC tests to nine. -
US pension gains 6.5% in three days after putting $350 million into credit
4 years ago
Marathon, Waterfall, ArrowMark and Columbia were allocated $350 million from a US pension for structured credit, Talf and high yield mandates -
S&P pushes downgrade button on three US CLO tranches
4 years ago
S&P Ratings has downgraded two tranches of Marathon CLO V and one tranche of Mountain View CLO 2013-1 -
Two US CLOs fail senior OC tests
4 years ago
Apex Credit Partners and Marathon Asset Management have become the first CLO managers in the 2.0 era with deals failing their senior overcollateralisation tests, according to latest trustee reports on CLO-i -
LSC bankruptcy leaves print marks on CLOs
4 years ago
CLOs hold $84.3 million of the debt of LSC Communications, which filed for Chapter 11 in the Southern District of New York yesterday.
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