Cerberus prints tightest middle market CLO of 2021
Cerberus Loan Management priced its fourth middle market CLO of the year on Thursday, bringing its 2021 issuance volume over $1.5 billion

Mid market CLO league tables: stalwarts Golub and Natixis reign supreme again
It may have taken seven months, but the mid market CLO league tables have familiar faces at the top with Golub Capital and Natixis leading the way in manager and arranger issuance, respectively

CLOs at a glance (July 2021)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Cerberus prints lesser-spotted CLO reissue
Cerberus Loan Management priced a rare CLO reissue on Wednesday in just the fourth deal of this flavour of transaction to print in 2021

Mid market CLO league tables: BlackRock takes new issuance lead with unusual deal via Morgan Stanley
BlackRock became the third mid market CLO manager to price two new issues this year and in doing so took the lead from Golub Capital in mid market CLO new issue league tables

Two managers rework 2019 CLOs
Aegon USA Investment Management and Cerberus Business Finance has each refinanced a 2019 CLO, with the two deals totalling $682.6 million of issuance

Mid market CLO league tables: Antares and Wells Fargo press reset to lead market
Following March's $5.87 billion, the busiest month of mid market CLO issuance since at least 2016, April felt like a quiet month for mid market CLOs with $2.26 billion pricing across three new issues, two resets and one partial refinancing

Cerberus prints second mid market CLO of 2021
Cerberus Loan Management has become only the second manager to price two middle market CLOs in 2021, having teamied up with Wells Fargo to issue the $368.1 million deal named Cerberus XXXII

Natixis scores CLO hat-trick with AB, OFS and Cerberus
The CLO primary desk at Natixis went on a $1.2 billion CLO spree on Friday, pricing deals For AB Private Credit Investors, Cerberus Business Finance and Orchard First Source

Mid market CLO league tables: late November surge revives mid-market
After a quiet start to the month the mid-market sprung to life on an eventful 20 November when three deals priced

Three managers print middle market CLOs worth $1.3 billion
Three managers - Apollo affilliate MidCap, Cerberus, and Maranon - brought new CLOs to market backed by loans to middle market companies on Friday. Worth a total of $1.32 billion, the three CLOs account for 16% of 2020 mid market CLO issuance and 21% of total issuance post-covid

LP round up: $2.8 billion flows to credit as Apollo concedes fundraising may slow
Florida Retirement System Trust Fund made the largest commitments allocating $1.6 billion. Apollo meanwhile acknowledged a potential slowdown in fundraising as investors await results on an independent review into CEO Leon Black's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Cerberus takes lead in mid market CLO volume post-covid
Cerberus Business Finance has become the middle market CLO manager with the highest new issue volumes post-covid by printing its second new issue deal since April

Cerberus ends 10-month CLO absence with tight triple-As
Cerberus Business Finance ends a 10-month absence from middle market CLO new issues by partnering with Natixis to price Cerberus Loan Funding XXVIII

Newcomer wins Creditflux Manager of the Year award in virtual event
Last night Creditflux presented its first ever virtual hosting of our annual Manager Awards, with over 450 people tuning in live to see the winners announced

LP round up: horseshoe does the trick for Pimco and other distressed managers
Institutional investors poured $2.7 billion into credit this week through 14 managers, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux

LP round-up: mighty Oaks win $1 billion apiece from Calpers
Credit investors allocated over $3 billion to 18 credit managers this week across a wide range of strategies

Bluestem bankruptcy hits $106 million of CLOs
CLOs hold $105.7 million of the debt of US retailer Bluestem which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i. 

HSBC notches up first US CLO arranging credit
HSBC has teamed up with Natixis as co-arranger on the latest new issue CLO from Cerberus Business Finance

CLO managers suffer puncture with $85 million of Jack Cooper debt
CLO managers hold $85.8 million of exposure to auto hauler Jack Cooper Ventures, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i 

New kids on the block dominate awards

Spire wins Creditflux Manager of the Year award
Spire Partners was the big winner at Creditflux's Manager Awards last night as the London-based manager scooped the award for the manager of the year. On top of this, the firm picked up awards for Best European CLO Manager and Best European CLO for Aurium CLO II

Managers slide down term curve
PGIM and Voya were among managers issuing short dated deals in the first quarter. These CLOs, along with a surge in b-wics, kept up the supply of short dated paper as refinancings fell away