Beneath the triple C: Stormy October hits CLOs with rising tide of downgrades
After a slight respite in the pace of downgrades over the summer for CLOs, October brought renewed momentum as macro-economic pressures - primarily high interest rate burdens for corporate borrowers and supply side inflation - became the recurring rationale

Beneath the triple C: US CLOs take a dip in the triple C as Europe watches from the sun lounger
The US CLO market bore the brunt of downgrades to triple C in July and August, with a total of $6.22 billion of paper affected. European CLOs enjoyed a more relaxing summer holiday, with only 1 name representing €33.88 million worth of bonds downgraded to triple C.  

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

CLO PM joins Ellington as it seeks expansion in credit and 'vanilla' CLOs
Ellington Management is pushing into corporate credit in a move which could culminate in launching US CLOs, sources say. 

Credit investors eye synthetic tranches as dispersion rises
Dispersion is increasingly important to the credit market — and it is incentivising some CLO investors to add synthetic products to their toolkits

LP round up: Oak Hill wins $3bn mandate as credit allocations near $10bn in March
Institutional investors revealed over $9.5 billion of allocations to credit funds in March. Oak Hill Advisors walked away with the largest mandate, as US heavyweight pension Calpers allocated a whopping $3 billion across several of its funds

Past returns: Ellington invents triple C-flex CLOs
Five years ago, Creditflux reported that Ellington Management was launching a US CLO business

CLOs at a glance (June 2021)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Ellington and MJX score refis of 2019 CLOs
Ellington Management Group and MJX Asset Management are the latest firms to print refinancings of 2019 CLOs

CLO refi paper worth $1.61 billion hits market
Five managers have printed transactions worth a combined $1.61 billion over the last few days, in a CLO refinancing bonanza 

Four managers print $1.5 billion CLO refis
Four CLO managers - CVC Credit Partners, CarVal Investors, Ellington Management Group and Neuberger Berman - each priced a CLO refinancing transaction on Friday

OC health check: CLOs wake up when September ends
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.

New York fund manager hires former Ellington CSO specialist
A credit fund manager has hired a structured credit specialist to cover corporate credit and structured credit products such as CLOs and CSOs

OC health check: August reports slow torrent of fresh breaches to a trickle
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  

iQor files for chapter 11 with CLOs holding $260 millon
17 CLO managers hold $263.1 million term loans of customer services provider iQor, which filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas today

Nassau confirms launch of European loan and CLO platform
Nassau Corporate Credit has launched a European loan and CLO platform with the $3.1 billion asset manager establishing a London office

Ellington winds down European CLO warehouse as PM joins rival
Ellington Management is winding down its European CLO warehouse with Barclays, while Ellington's European CLO operations lead has left for a rival firm

Beneath the triple C: CLOs get their sneakers on as retailers run into bankruptcy
July added further relief to CLO portfolios with the slowest rate of downgrades to triple C since March. US CLO portfolios faced downgrades of $2.18 billion to triple C while European portfolios faced just €59.13 million of such downgrades

CLOs hold $600 million of bankrupt retailer Tailored Brands
Tailored Brands has become the latest US retailer to file for Chapter 11 as a result of the coronavirus-induced pandemic. 37 US CLO managers hold $588.9 million in term loans of the Houston-headquartered firm,

Beneath the triple C: downgrades hold steady as Travelport loses its luggage
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

Trading places: it can pay to bet on the little guy
It’s assumed investors know how good a CLO manager is by the rate at which they trade their way through a crisis. But this time fi ve small, nimble managers are outperforming the market

Loan slump brings managers closer
A 19% slide in new US loan volumes last year has left CLO managers with fewer options in the primary market, and portfolio overlap between US managers has increased to 35.3% on average

OC health check: slowing of downgrades offers some reprieve for CLOs stuck in breach
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

Ellington holds first close on structured credit dislocation fund
Ellington Management has launched a mortgage recovery fund

OC health check: US CLOs hit by new round of test failures
135 deals breached an over-collateralisation test last week, 78 for the first time, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i.