Anchorage renews Credit Suisse partnership to reset 2018 Euro CLO
The pair worked together on the original pricing in October 2018

CLO double Bs hit 2021 wides as Bain injects equity into 2014 European reset
CLO double B reset levels tightened in February but have since widened to 710bp

European CLO repricing volume passes €14bn as ICG resets 2019 deal
 Intermediate Capital Group becomes the latest CLO manager to reset a deal, having reworked its 2019 vintage St Paul’s CLO X

CLO reissues return to Europe after two years as Five Arrows reworks 2018 deal
Five Arrows paired with Morgan Stanley on Friday to reissue its 2018 vintage deal, Contego CLO VI

Blackstone and Hayfin get Euro CLO new issues rolling as single Bs diverge
Blackstone paired with BNP Paribas for Carysfort Park, while Hayfin followed the yellow (or rather gold) brick road to pair with Goldman Sachs on Hayfin Emerald CLO VI

CLO pipeline: busy year, so let's take time to reset
The US CLO market this year has been dominated by new issues and refinancings, but now is the time of the reset judging by this week’s pipeline

Sound Point breaks through Europe's five-year reinvestment barrier to set CLO benchmark
European CLO triple As have reached new tights with Sound Point Capital Management pricing triple As at 77 basis points over Euribor

European direct lender scopes out possibility of CLO management
Europe’s CLO market could welcome yet another entrant with a direct lender exploring the possibility of managing CLOs

Spire inserts triple A loan tranche in European CLO reset
Bank of America arranged the €411.4 million transaction, which includes split triple A, pari-passu tranches in loan and note formats

Beneath the triple C: resurfacing credits surpass divers as tide turns for CLOs
Upgrades above triple C overtook downgrades to that rating or below in February. Moody's or Standard & Poor's cut six corporate debt issuers to triple C or below in February, out of which just four can be found in CLO portfolios

Euro CLO league tables: Refi return spurs European CLOs towards record volumes
A record shattering month as refi wave continues

Global CLO league tables - February 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - February 2021 YTD

Bardin Hill sells European CLO business to HPS with head Snyder set to retire
Bardin Hill Investment Partners has sold its European CLO platform to HPS Investment Partners

MidOcean CLO PM joins European credit manager to lead US expansion
Former MidOcean Credit CLO portfolio manager Jim Wiant has joined a Copenhagen-headquartered manager to lead the firm's US expansion

2020 European CLO absentee hits 80bp triple A tights while mezz trails wider
Barclays arranged the €407.5 million transaction on Friday

European CLO rollover rate slumps amid refi/reset surge
European CLO investors' rolling rate into refinancings and resets has dropped since the start of the year, with the huge pipeline, a flight to quality and caution about widening spreads all playing a part

Euro CLO mezz spreads leak wider but seniors hold firm as ICG resets
European CLO mezzanine reset spreads have widened out slightly this week, highlighted by Intermediate Capital Group’s reset of St Pauls CLO VI via JP Morgan

Moving fast pays off for hedge funds
2020 was an up and down year in credit, and credit hedge fund managers had to move quickly to capture opportunities from the dislocations that inevitably opened up

European CLO leverage hits double-figures
European CLO leverage has increased this year, from an average of 9.4 debt-to-equity in 2020 to 10.3 times in 2021, according to Creditflux data.

Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
New year, same funds leading the way with CLO strategies the top performers in January

Ucits at a glance: CIFC nears positive 12-month returns
Ucits funds have started 2021 on a quiet note as 72% of funds achieved a positive return

High yield fund sets pace with 22% return in January
Wasserstein Debt Opportunities Fund has set the early pace for credit hedge funds in 2021 after registering a 21.7% gain in January. This builds on the high yield fund’s success last year and takes 12-month returns to 40.44%. 

CLO pipeline: US adds deals at frenetic pace as Europe catches breath after record start
US CLO investors have numerous deals to consider with 13 new issues and 15 repricings being prepared to flood the market in the coming days

It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter  

Credit fundraising: ESG centre stage as capital pours into new strategies
Sustainability was the watchword for fundraising in February, amid a flurry of fund launches as well as first closes for impact funds and sustainable bond funds