US CLO pipeline: Go long! Refis fall from favour as AMMC looks to join list of 2021 issuers
The only record left to fall this year in US CLOs is 2017’s refinancing total of $102.8 billion with the market $6.3 billion shy. Yet this segment shows little interest to break more records with the pipeline filled with new issues and resets as longer tenured deals are preferred.

Investors behind CLO guarantees emerge as Assured wraps third deal
A bank and an insurer have emerged as the two investors behind Assured Guaranty’s financial guarantees of recent CLO trades. And Assured Guaranty has provided a guarantee to an investor on a third European CLO

CLO refi and reset volumes surge with $2.3 billion priced on Friday
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

Nine CLOs each — and every one of them is different
CLO giants Blackstone and Carlyle Group have printed nine new US CLOs apiece this year, but CLO market participants say managers are creating distinct portfolios

Livermore gives Peace a chance with anchor role in Blackstone deal and plans more CLO investments
CLO equity investor Livermore Investments Group reveals it was the anchor investor in a recent $650 million US deal

US CLO pipeline: 1.0 manager returning, Carlyle going for CLO 10 as market goes to 100
Never in 1,000 years would the critics have expected this 

Blackstone becomes second manager to print record nine US CLOs in one year
Blackstone Credit priced a record ninth new US CLO on Friday, becoming just the second manager to acheive this feat

US CLO pipeline: 33 new issues enter market with historic CLO records on the verge of shattering
The US CLO market is running as hot as it has all year with a whopping 33 managers marketing new issues CLOs, according to market sources

Global CLO league tables - Aug 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Aug 2021 YTD

Blackstone prints eighth CLO of 2021 and scores tightest funding costs since May
Blackstone Credit paired with Nomura on Thursday to issue its eighth new US CLO of the year, scoring the tightest funding costs since May in the process

TriMark court ruling encourages peace between lenders
Many CLO managers breathed a sigh of relief in August, with one source indicating a recent court case decision sent a “clear signal that the spate of lender-on-lender violence in the leveraged loan market will not remain unchecked”

Investors clamour for fixed-rate CLOs ahead of rate rise
Demand for fixed-rate US CLO paper is so strong these notes are pricing much tighter than pari passu floating rate equivalents in the primary market

Nomura gets to work on biggest CLO mandate to date with Blackstone new issue
Blackstone Credit is working on its eighth new US CLO of the year with the world’s largest CLO manager assigning arranging duties to Nomura

Fight for leaderboard top-spot intensifies as Blackstone prints Peace Park CLO
Blackstone Credit priced its seventh US CLO of the year on Tuesday just days after Carlyle Group became the first manager to achieve the feat, as the two firms battle for top spot on the leaderboard for issuance in 2021

Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD

Global CLO trading lab: Equity supply spikes as investors go long
CLO equity returned to the secondary market in a big way last week, after a month of very little visibility, with $118.3 million of US CLO and €44.9 million of European CLO subordinated notes on sale

Blackstone establishes 112bp as spread to beat with tight CLO triple As
Blackstone Credit has become the second manager to print CLO triple As at the market tight of 112 basis points over Libor, establishing the level as the benchmark

Nomura makes senior US CLO hire as it grows pipeline with Blackstone mandate
Nomura has hired an official to lead its US CLO structuring effort as the bank’s CLO market share continues to grow. One of Nomura’s next assignments is a new US CLO for Blackstone Credit

AGL and Blackstone reset and upsize post-covid CLOs from 2020
AGL Credit Management and Blackstone Credit added to their respective 2020 CLO reset sprees on Monday, with both managers upsizing their post-covid deals

Niagara falls: CLO spreads come down in Blackstone refi to highlight 2019 v 2021 basis
Blackstone Credit has refinanced one of its 2019 US CLOs. The CLO, Niagara Park CLO, has three years of reinvestment remaining and while the seniors priced inside the five-year Point Au Roche (100bp to 108bp), mezzanine tranches were wider despite the refi's shorter tenor.

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD

US CLO league tables: CIFC makes big leap but CSAM and JP Morgan retain leads
There has been no change atop the US CLO league tables, but Credit Suisse Asset Management’s and JP Morgan’s leads are dwindling

US triple As narrow to 108bp as Blackstone prints yet another new CLO
Blackstone Credit brought the CLO market tighter on Friday by printing a new deal with triple As at just 108 basis points over Libor

Blackstone CLO origination head relocates to London
Blackstone’s global head of capital formation liquid credit has relocated from New York to London