Audax becomes first manager of 2023 to reset a CLO
Audax Private Debt has become the first manager of 2023 to complete a CLO reset, teaming with Bank of America to rework its 2020 middle market deal named Audax Senior Debt CLO 4

Middle market CLO volumes surpass $2.5 billion in March after Churchill prices
Middle market CLO issuance for March climbed to $2.69 billion on Thursday after Churchill Asset Management priced a new transaction named Churchill MMSLF CLO II

Golub prices $1.4 billion CLOs in a single day
Golub Capital Partners priced two CLOs on Thursday worth a combined $1.4 billion in the biggest day of primary activity for a single manager so far in 2023

PennantPark prints this week's second new middle market CLO
Issuance for middle market CLOs by deal count for the week overtook figures for broadly syndicated CLOs on Thursday after PennantPark Investment Advisers priced a new $297.8 million transaction

Mid market CLO triple A spreads at 255bp after AB prices
AllianceBernstein priced a new middle market CLO named ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO XII on Wednesday, with the deal's triple A notes scoring a Sofr plus 255 basis point print

Mid market CLO league tables: February volumes exceed any 2022 month with Natixis setting the pace
New mid market CLO issuance totalled $3.5 billion in February, the highest monthly volume since November 2021

More than $1 billion new mid market CLOs print from Angelo Gordon and Cerberus
Angelo Gordon and Cerberus Business Finance each priced a new middle market CLO on Friday, with the two deals totalling over $1 billion in new issue volume

First Eagle promotes four across syndicated loans and direct lending
First Eagle Alternative Credit has promoted four officials to senior-level roles across its direct lending and syndicated loans businesses

Recurring revenue ABS: meet the latest CLO variant
A new asset class is being added to Creditflux’s middle market CLO league tables with an increasing number of firms moving into recurring revenue ABS

Blue Owl lands with low-levered, mid-market CLO
Blue Owl Capital has priced a middle market CLO which conforms to its usual low-levered template. 

Orix USA makes two senior appointments to investor solutions unit
Orix Corporation USA has hired two managing directors to its investor solutions division

Ivy Hill climbs back into CLO market after Natixis plants mid-market deal
Ivy Hill Asset Management is back with its first middle-market US CLO in two years 

Silver Point issues its second mid market CLO
Silver Point Capital priced its third CLO since 2021 on Friday and its second CLO backed by loans to middle market companies

Carlyle appoint former Goldman executive as CEO
Carlyle Group have appointed former Goldman Sachs Co-President and CO-Chief Operating Officer Harvey Schwartz as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board, the firm has announced.

Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs),  Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. 

FS and Portfolio Advisors join forces to create $73bn asset manager
FS Investments and Portfolio Advisors have announced a merger in a deal which will see Portfolio Advisors become the institutional investment arm of FS

New York lifts limit on pension alternatives to 35%
New York pensions have been granted the ability to elevate their alternative investment allocations from 25% to 35%. This comes after New York governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill on 23 December that lifts the “basket clause”

Fund performance: Credit funds end difficult 2022 on a positive note
In December 66% of credit funds reached a positive return, following an even better November where 81% of all funds pushed into the black

Credit hedge fund returns (February 2023)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (February 2023)
A round up of people moves and fundraising

Audax prices its largest ever middle market CLO
Audax Group teamed up with BNP Paribas on Friday to price the firm's largest middle market CLO to date

Fortress issues 2023's first CLO backed by middle market loans
Fortress Investment Group has priced the first middle market CLO of the new year

Chenavari expands European presence with Paris office
Chenavari Investment Managers has expanded its presence in Europe with the opening of a French office

Senior Investcorp official lands at wealth manager
A well-known name in the CLO industry has landed at a wealth management firm 

Nassau adds $3.6 billion credit firm Angel Island to its platform
Under the deal, Angel Island will become a subsidiary of Nassau’s asset management unit, Nassau Asset Management