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Symphony opts for short-dated structure with its fourth new CLO of the year
2 years ago
Nuveen Asset Management priced its fourth new US CLO of the year on Wednesday, opting to structure the deal with a short reinvestment period of just three years -
Nuveen cuts 2020 CLO funding costs by 40bp with refi
2 years ago
Nuveen Asset Management cut the funding costs of one of its 2020 CLOs by almost 40 basis points by refinancing the deal on Wednesday -
Nuveen and Sixth Street turn CLO reset attention to older deals
2 years ago
Nuveen and Sixth Street both reset an older vintage CLO on Friday, with the two managers reworking $850 million worth of legacy transactions -
US CLO pipeline: 1.0 manager returning, Carlyle going for CLO 10 as market goes to 100
2 years ago
Never in 1,000 years would the critics have expected this -
Sculptor and Nuveen add $883 million CLO refi supply
2 years ago
Sculptor Capital Management and Nuveen have each refinanced a legacy CLO, with the two deals adding $882.6 million to refi supply -
Nuveen lowers CLO triple As by 22 basis points after refinancing 2012 deal
2 years ago
Nuveen has refinanced four senior debt tranches of its 2012 CLO named California Street IX -
An alternative way of looking at CLO overlap
2 years ago
Analysing CLO collateral to look for overlap is critical for any CLO investor, but it is normally done either within a portfolio of CLOs or by bilaterally comparing two managers. In one of its latest research pieces, Moody’s Analytics has taken a different approach -
Nuveen and SocGen pair for first time on new CLO with tight triple As
2 years ago
Nuveen priced its second new issue CLO of the year on Tuesday, via SocGen -
Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
2 years ago
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives. -
Nuveen lowers 2019 CLO's funding costs by 31 basis points
2 years ago
Nuveen refinanced its 2019 CLO named Symphony XXI on Wednesday, lowering the deal's funding costs by 31 basis points in the process -
Nuveen opts for three-year reinvestment period on latest CLO
2 years ago
Nuveen has opted for a short one-year non-call, three-year reinvestment structure on its new CLO named Symphony CLO XVIII, which priced on Thursday -
CLOs wheel and deal as overlap increases
3 years ago
2020 CLOs are a different breed to any other vintage. But this cohort features an overlap of almost 40% as CLO issuers have been forced to focus almost entirely on secondary market loans -
Triple As hit new tights with Nuveen CLO
3 years ago
Credit Suisse arranged the $510.6 million transaction, named Symphony XXV -
CLO pipeline: busy year, so let's take time to reset
3 years ago
The US CLO market this year has been dominated by new issues and refinancings, but now is the time of the reset judging by this week’s pipeline -
MUFG cuts CLO funding costs with first primary deal of 2021
3 years ago
MUFG priced its first CLO primary market transaction of 2021 on Monday, arranging a $492 million refinancing of three tranches of Symphony CLO XV -
Nuveen renames CLO and upsizes by $170 million following reset
3 years ago
Nuveen Asset Management has reset one of its 2017-vintage CLOs via Wells Fargo, upsizing the deal by $170 million in the process -
Refis, resets and reissues back in vogue as four US CLO managers print deals
3 years ago
Various shades of CLO refinancings dominate the US CLO primary market with four deals - two refis, a reset and a reissue - printing on Wednesday for a total volume of $1.1 billion. This surpassed all US CLO refinancings in the six months from March to September last year -
CLO issuers flex their bond muscles
3 years ago
Some panellists at Creditflux’s US CLO Investor Summit pointed to structural difficulties, but the consensus was that flexibility — particularly the ability to buy bonds — could improve performance -
We were battered in 2020 — but we weren’t beaten
3 years ago
The CLO industry has survived a year blighted by covid-19. We talk to portfolio managers about the strengths of CLOs and preparations for what was expected to be a ‘cataclysmic’ recession -
Vaccine boosts credit as PE firms open up to bridge loans
3 years ago
The leveraged loan and CLO markets ended 2020 on a long-awaited high after multiple vaccines for covid-19 were rubber-stamped by regulators -
Nuveen hits US market tights with CLO and takes 2020 volume to $1.2 billion
3 years ago
Nuveen has priced the third US CLO on its Symphony platform of 2020, bringing its volume for the year to $1.22 billion -
CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
3 years ago
Over $3.5 billion of global CLO issuance priced last week and managers in all three CLO markets are taking advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure after three major covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs and increased confidence since the US presidential election -
Symphony splits CLO tranche to fixed and floating following refi
3 years ago
Symphony Asset Management has split the fixed-rate double A tranche of its 2015 vintage CLO named Symphony XVI as part of a refinancing -
Symphony issues first CLO since integration with Nuveen
3 years ago
Symphony Asset Management has priced its first new issue CLO in nine months, and its first since announcing the integration of its leveraged finance business with affiliate Nuveen -
CLO pipeline: three behemoths prepare for quick-turnaround new issues
3 years ago
CLO managers have printed at a frenetic pace since the start of the quarter with $3.36 billion of issuance across all CLO markets and pricing types
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