Onex eyes CLO resets as seasoned 2.0s reach reinvestment end
Onex Corporation held its earnings call last week, during which officials at the firm underlined the importance of resetting seasoned US CLOs into new structures

Investors agree wind-up call for KKR euro CLO 1.0
Investors have approved a plan that will allow KKR Credit to wind down a poorly performing 2006 European CLO

CLO round-up: Columbia and CSAM produce 100%-plus annualised distributions
Amidst the reset and refi environment, Columbia Management and Credit Suisse Asset Management have pleased the equity investors in their CLOs by delivering 100%-plus annualised payments in May

Credit Suisse and CSAM team up to price latest euro CLO
Credit Suisse Asset Management has matched the pricing on recent deals to bring its first European CLO of 2017

CLO structurer joins Citi in London
Citi has strengthened its European CLO team by hiring from a rival.

Citi introduces tiered pricing model for CLO b-wics to boost participation
Market sources say that Citi – one of the largest CLO market-makers in the business – has launched a new CLO b-wic pricing initiative, which could improve liquidity in the secondary market for CLOs

CLO round-up: spreads tighten in secondary as managers turn to refis
CLO spreads have been grinding tighter this year with triple-B discount margins falling from a 424 basis point rolling average to 347bp

Cairn hires former Magnetar official for PM role on credit opps fund
Cairn Capital has announced that it has hired former Magnetar Capital official Brandon Kufrin as a portfolio manager

HPS makes its debut as European CLO manager
HPS has priced the first of two European CLOs it is known to have in the market

Goldman Sachs prices refinancing of early 2015 European CLO
Goldman Sachs has achieved a spread of 95 basis on the senior notes of a European refinancing 

CLO managers boost “diversity” by adding industry categories
Some recent CLOs have increased the number of industries into which they classify borrowers to as many as 70, according to Fitch 

Natixis hires experienced official to lead European structured credit sales
Natixis has appointed a new head of structured credit distribution for Europe, sources say

Ares wins $1.1 billion in global direct lending SMAs in strong start to 2017
Direct lending proved to be Ares Management’s most successful strategy in fundraising terms with the firm registering $1.1 billion of inflows for European and US private debt in the first quarter

CLO round up: manager tiering hits US market
New issuance volumes overtook those of refinanced deals in the CLO market last week. $1.63 billion of new issue printed in the US

Stabilisation managers emerge to rescue CLO refis
Documents for an Octagon CLO refi reveals a tactic used by arrangers to ensure better execution  

Investing ethically is worth it
Managers could see less volatile returns as a result of their increasing adoption of ESG-friendly portfolios; meanwhile direct lending is spreading across Europe

Who cares about risk retention?
Managers watching CLO spreads reach their tightest levels since the crisis had little time to fret about US risk retention

Past returns
We wind back the clock to the last time investors were hedging French credit ahead of an election and to when one of the best known CLO investors filed an IPO

Join the debate
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Points up front
Natixis's Hernan Quipildor's secret talent and why those looking to launch a hedge fund business should pick their company name wisely  

They said it
Waiting game is over

Morgan Stanley reset slashes funding cost on KKR euro CLO
KKR Credit has priced a reset of its mid-2014 European CLO Avoca CLO XI, according to market sources

Boutique CLO managers boss secondary market
Creditflux analysis shows that, when their total assets are taken into account, small managers' CLOs are more liquid than those of large managers 

Award-winning European CLO set to be refinanced
Fresh from being crowned the best 2.0 European CLO in the market, Dryden 35 Euro CLO is set to be refinanced

Leading CLO market-maker completes big hire in London
An experienced structured credit investor has landed at a bank, which is considered to have one of the leading CLO trading desks in the business