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

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

Euro CLO cost of debt retraces to 2020 year-end levels as BofA revises reset forecasts
Blackstone Credit and CVC Credit printed the first new issues since the loan market wobble, while Bank of America has revised its refi/reset forecast down from €35 billion to €19 billion

Euro CLOs in price discovery mode as market awaits Blackstone and CVC deals
CLO market participants are awaiting new issues from Blackstone and CVC on Friday, in a rare week of no deals due to the market disruption caused by the mounting Ukraine crisis. But two managers are considering short-dated deals

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

Global CLO league tables - January 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Jan YTD

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

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

Blackstone keeps up momentum with benchmark US CLO print
Blackstone Credit on Friday priced its first new CLO of the year, producing the largest and tightest 2022 transaction to date

European CLO market gets underway with two refis, one reset and bubbling pipeline
Managers priced two European CLO refis and one European CLO reset on Thursday as Barings, Blackstone and Carlyle all reworked deals

CLO pipeline: biggest managers come to market as Rockford Tower sets sight on CBO
The Sofr-era of CLOs is well and truly upon us judging by the pipeline, with 14 US CLO managers marketing their first Sofr CLOs. and six European CLO managers are locked in a race to bring the first new issue of 2022

Blackstone prices triple As at 130bp in five-year US CLO reset
Blackstone Credit on Thursday became the second manager to price a five-year reinvestment CLO referencing Sofr by resetting its 2019 deal named Allegany Park