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Private equity firms are becoming CLO converts: TwentyFour
1 year ago
Private equity firms have increasingly bought CLO and other securitised debt tranches in recent weeks instead of their usual preference for physical assets - a trade TwentyFour believes "makes perfect sense" -
Credit investors find bright spots in gloomy outlook: Credit Rendezvous Q4 2022
1 year ago
Clouds are looming over financial markets as the fourth quarter begins — so investors are moving away from diversified approaches in favour of tailored investments and relative value plays -
CBOs return as Anchorage second deal takes year's tally to three
1 year ago
Anchorage Capital on Wednesday priced the third US CBO of the year, with outflows from the high yield market having prompted CLO and bond-flex CLO managers to step in to try to take advantage of deeply discounted bond prices -
CLO spreads are not pricing in recession: JP Morgan
1 year ago
CLOs are priced fairly for a growth slowdown but not a recession, according to JP Morgan credit strategists, who warn spreads are at risk if US growth contracts -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
1 year ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
Credit Rendezvous: Pass masters
2 years ago
Most often, a credit market downturn has its roots mired in one big, blatant obstacle that credit managers have to focus their attention to overcome. But right now, it’s not the dominant risk factor that has to be defeated, it’s the sheer number of them... -
High yield / loan slowdown affects year-end projections and pricing: Barclays
2 years ago
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 -
Rockford Tower turns to CBOs in first deal of year
2 years ago
Rockford Tower Capital Management made the transition from regular-way CLOs into bond-heavy deals by pricing its debut transaction on Thursday -
CLO primary pause ends as Fortress prints first deal of 2022
2 years ago
Fortress Investment Group has priced the first CLO primary market transaction of 2022 -
Angelo Gordon inserts loan tranche as it prints second-largest CBO ever
2 years ago
Angelo Gordon has issued the second-largest bond-heavy CLO in the market, teaming up with JP Morgan to print the $847.7 million deal named AG CC Funding II -
Debt investors agree to nine-month call lock in Anchorage CBO refi
2 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group refinanced the mezzanine debt of its 2019 bond-heavy CLO named Anchorage Credit Funding 9 on Friday -
CLO refi and reset volumes surge with $2.3 billion priced on Friday
2 years ago
CLO refi and reset volumes surged on Friday with $2.3 billion priced across the US market, according to market sources. Brigade Capital Management, MidOcean Credit Partners and New Mountain Capital reset regular-way CLOs, Blackstone Credit scored a regular CLO refi, Sculptor Capital Management refinanced a bond-heavy CLO, and Ivy Hill Asset Management reset a middle market CLO -
The Creditflux CLO Symposium was back as an in-person event for the first time in two years and participants were delighted to socialise and bask in an amazing year for the credit industry2 years ago
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Romark returns with second bond-flex CLO
2 years ago
Romark Credit Advisors has issued its second bond-heavy CLO following its debut in the asset class last year -
It's all relative: IG index drifts wide of 50bp as European CLO triple Bs outperform
2 years ago
US investment grade credit has been an underperformer in the last few weeks with CDX IG trading north of 50 basis points again. But European CLO triple Bs are looking strong while there is a stronger bid for two- to three-year paper in the US -
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. -
2021 CBO refi volume reaches record as CSAM cuts costs on 2019 deal
2 years ago
Credit Suisse Asset Management paired with Citi on Thursday to refinance the mezzanine debt tranches of its 2019 bond-heavy CLO named One Eleven Funding III -
Anchorage refis mezz tranches of twin CBOs
2 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group has refinanced the mezzanine debt tranches of two of its CBOs -
It's all relative: CDX HY touches record tights but junior US CLO tranches leak wider
2 years ago
Credit spreads are marching tighter, but someone forgot to tell the CLO market. European and US CDS spreads have moved in step with each other for the most part with investment grade and high yield tightening 4-6% in the last week, whereas CLOs have been losing ground -
Anchorage prints 2021's third bond-flex CLO
3 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group has priced its latest bond-heavy CLO offering named Anchorage Credit Funding 13, teaming up with GreensLedge to print the $458.8 million deal -
Credit Rendezvous: ready and waiting
3 years ago
In Creditflux's quarterly review of credit, portfolio managers tell us that Inflation is likely to nudge higher but they are optimistic because dispersion will pick up and windows of volatility will emerge, rather than elongated phases of stress -
Anchorage adds double B tranche to 2019 bond-flex CLO
3 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group has added a double B liability tranche to a 2019 bond-heavy CLO following a refinancing -
World welcomes debut CLO manager as Centerbridge joins bond-flex issuers
3 years ago
The world welcomed a new CLO manager on Thursday as New York-based private equity firm Centerbridge Partners entered the fray with a bond-heavy transaction named Centerbridge Credit Funding 1 -
It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
3 years ago
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter -
Angelo Gordon joins ranks of bond-flex CLO issuers
3 years ago
Angelo Gordon teamed up with Credit Suisse on Thursday to issue its first ever bond-heavy CLO
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