Blackstone revives Stratus brand as it prices opportunistic US CLO
Blackstone Credit is once again capitalising on dislocation in the credit market having priced a $393.6 million new US CLO on Monday under its Stratus brand. The CLO is understood to follow a print and sprint method, and analysis of the profile suggests that the deal could benefit from $20 million of upside if assets rally to par

CSAM does the CLO awards double
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it

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

Envision exchange leaves some lenders sick, but CSAM finds prevention is better than cure
Envision Healthcare’s distressed debt exchange has rocked the CLO market, with over $1.68 billion of the firm’s loans held by US CLOs. But some of the largest managers have avoided the name completely 

Blackstone Credit reclaims CLO leaderboard top spot just one day after Elmwood overtook
Blackstone Credit on Thursday priced its fifth US CLO of the year, bringing its issuance volume to $2.97 billion and retaking its top spot on the CLO leaderboard

US CLO league tables: Blackstone gets back to business as it rises to the top
Blackstone is no longer the largest CLO manager globally (it lost that title in March). But it is the most prolific issuer in 2022 

Global CLO league tables - April 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April YTD

CLOs at a glance (May 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
   

We’re drifting apart
Everyone’s issuing US CLOs these days and it is tempting to believe the crowd of managers is blending into one. However, overall portfolio overlap has dropped to 37.7% across 2021 CLOs  

Livermore reveals investment in Blackstone and PGIM CLO equity
US CLO equity investor Livermore Investments Group has been active in the primary market 

Blackstone achieves tightest US CLO debt stack in over a month
Blackstone Credit has secured the tightest debt execution for a five-year reinvestment CLO in over a month, printing a new deal with funding costs of 193.12 basis points

CLOs at a glance (April 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month  

142bp emerges as triple A benchmark spread as Blackstone prices new CLO
Blackstone Credit priced a new CLO on Wednesday, placing the senior triple A notes at Sofr plus 142 basis points

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

Global CLO league tables - March 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - March YTD

US CLO league tables: BofA marches on as Elmwood climbs to top in new issues
Last month, for the first time since June 2020, no resets or refinancings priced in the US CLO market as market volatility took repricings out of the money. This meant a month-on-month decline of $13.4 billion in overall issuance, but new issuance was still healthy with $11.6 billion pricing in March

Blackstone lands big name as bank's synthetic structured credit talisman joins buyside
Blackstone has hired a well known figure from the synthetic structured credit market, with a prominent name in CSOs joining the firm after 18 years working on the sell-side 

US CLO league tables: BofA takes a big leap ahead
It has been a slow start to the year for the US CLO market, which has so far welcomed $33.42 billion worth of issuance – the second lowest in the last five years. But Bank of America is taking big strides

Mid market CLO league tables: diamonds are for 2019 and BCRED is for now
Middle market CLO issuance is off to a fast pace in 2022 as a busy February welcomed three new issue CLOs and three resets – adding $3.8 billion to this year’s tally of $4.39 billion

Global CLO league tables - February 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Feb YTD

Blackstone and MS Eaton Vance new CLOs achieve market-beating triple As
Blackstone Credit and Morgan Stanley Eaton Vance each priced a new CLO on Friday with triple A spreads around 132 basis points - among the tightest first-pay prints of recent weeks

State Street and Blackstone target US CLOs, high yield and senior loans for ETF
State Street Global Advisors has teamed up with Blackstone Credit to launch a new exchange traded fund named SPDR Blackstone High Income ETF

Blackstone resets 2019 CLO at huge $736 million
Blackstone Credit has priced a $736 million reset of its 2019 CLO Beechwood Park

Blackstone prints largest CLO in $1.1 billion mid-market deal
Blackstone Credit has produced the fourth US CLO under the BCRED shelf with the firm pricing a $1.09 billion middle market CLO on Thursday

US CLO league tables: No static shock as Palmer Square conducts CLO traffic yet again
It was a slower start to the year for US CLO new issuance as  managers printed $4.56 billion of new paper against an average new issue volume of $5.88 billion in January in the last five years. But then again, the CLO and loan industries have had to contend with the not-so-small issue of replacing their favourite floating rate benchmark