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

European CLO primary re-awakens to tune of Adagio X
Axa Investment Managers priced a European CLO on Friday (a few days before anticipated), printing a €324.75 million static deal via Barclays

Axa IM and InPact close €395m global revolving credit facility fund
AXA Investment Managers and InPact Partners have closed their second vintage revolving credit facilities fund, RCF II, with over €395 million in capital commitments

Axa IM chooses static format for upcoming European CLO
Axa Investment Managers is marketing a static European CLO new issue named Adagio CLO X

Axa IM reorganises alternatives unit into five streams amid AUM growth
Axa Investment Managers has reorganised its ‘alternatives’ business into five streams and made four promotions

Axa IM plots Euro CLO warehouse investment amid loan pressure and possible liquidations
Some European CLO warehouse may face liquidations and there will be further pressure on leveraged loans in the last quarter of the year, according to Axa Investment Management

15 CLO managers aim to print European deals as 'aspirational pipeline' forms
European CLO market participants are doubtful the pace of issuance will return to full swing in September, despite a reasonably healthy forward-looking pipeline.

We can cope with downgrades again

CLO fund appoints former ICG credit head Kershaw as chair
The board of directors of Axa's publicly listed CLO fund, Volta Finance, has appointed former ICG credit head Dagmar Kershaw as company chairman, following the retirement of Paul Meader. Former CLO structurer Yedau Ogoundele also joins as an independent board director 

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

Muzinich adds UK and Ireland institutional sales head
Muzinich & Co has hired a head institutional sales for the UK and Ireland

Axa IM raises €1.2 billion for SRTs
Axa Investment Managers has closed Partner Capital Solutions VIII, a significant risk transfer (SRT) strategy, at roughly €1.2 billion, according to an announcement.

Axa IM launches multi-strat fund for pensions
Axa Investment Managers’ ‘alternatives’ business has launched an open-ended strategy for pension funds

CSAM regains best manager throne
Upstart CLO managers overtook more experienced rivals at last year’s Creditflux Manager Awards, but CSAM and other large firms, such as PGIM, emerged victorious in London this time around

Euro 2021 CLO volume exceeds €60 billion as BNPP and Axa IM pair for new issue
BNP Paribas arranged Axa IM's return to the primary CLO market after 21 months 

Axa IM extends palm oil policy to cover ecosystem protection and deforestation
Axa Investment Managers says it is expanding its 2014 policy of excluding investments in companies which do not have sustainable palm oil production certificates by factoring in deforestation and ecosystem protection

They said it: "The board announces the discovery of a website purporting to represent Volta"
They said it 

Global CLO trading lab: Octagon CLO comes out top in CLO double B spike
Double B-rated bonds made up 40% of the European and US CLO secondary markets last week. $222 million of US CLO double B bonds were on sale and a further €105 million of European CLO double B items were listed

CLO pipeline: Five out, five in as market digests new issuance wave
Five new issue US CLOs priced from last week’s pipeline, but five more have replaced them in this week's edition of our pipeline report

Triple A loan tranches keep getting bigger as Axa IM resets European CLO
Axa Investment Managers has reset its 2015 vintage European CLO Adagio IV and has become the latest manager to feature a substantial loan tranche as part of the transaction

Axa IM combines single As in European CLO refi
Deutsche Bank arranged the € 274.7 million transaction, which cuts cost of debt by 31.8 basis points

Axa IM leads as ESG grows in European CLO industry
European CLOs are increasingly launching with express ESG mandates embedded as issuers seek to get ahead of what appears to be an inevitable shift towards ethical investing

Global CLO b-wic round-up: Secondary markets rally despite ‘worst liquidity seen all year’
An adjournment in the US for Veterans Day last week still left plenty of time for the CLO secondary market to rally, thanks to Pfizer's covid-19 vaccine breakthrough and a firmer indication of the US presidential election results

Axa IM fund drops in July as it seeks call on non-paying 2013 CLO
Volta Finance, a publicly listed CLO fund managed by Axa Investment Managers, was down 1.2% in July (after its 11 cents per share dividend payment) due to US dollars depreciating against euros by 4.6% during the month, Axa said in the fund's monthly update