Euro CLO round-up: innovators and renovators rip out floors and refurbish deals
Barings and Cairn entered the CLO refi market this week to produce two transactions that will be remembered as pioneers in their field

Barings removes triple A Euribor floor as it prices CLO refi
Barings has priced its third transaction in the European CLO market this year

Manager plans its third euro CLO transaction of 2017 and hires Goldman
A large European credit manager is working on a €298.8 million refinancing of a 2015 CLO deal, according to market sources

Investors prefer direct lending to CLOs
For the first time in the history of Creditflux’s credit allocator survey, investors have voted direct lending the best investment in credit. CLOs came joint second. By Michelle D’souza

Rating outlook: It's a matter of life and spread for CLO managers
Stabilisation of loan spreads and recovery rates spells good news for European CLO managers

GSO markets its third European CLO of 2017
GSO Capital Partners is readying its third European CLO of the year, according to market sources

Local Pensions Partnership looks to go direct with £1.3 billion credit fund
The Local Pensions Partnership (LPP), which runs the pension schemes of two separate UK local government areas, has announced the launch of a £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) credit fund

Octopus inks new UK real estate debt fund after raising £115 million
UK property lender Octopus Property today announced a first close of £115m for its Commercial Real Estate Debt Fund II

Europe CLO round-up: issuance tops €30 billion as Accunia and Tikehau price
European CLO volumes have now surpassed €30 billion for the year. New issue, resets and refinancings have contributed 38.3%, 33.61% and 28.1% respectively to 2017’s total.

ICG set to become latest manager to "reissue" a CLO in €438 million deal
What do you to a CLO that has already been refinanced and is barred from further refis or resets? Reissue it, a new industry trend suggests

French asset manager prices its first CLO of 2017
A Paris-based firm priced the €435.15 million deal yesterday, according to market sources

Accunia prices its second CLO in €386.6 million transaction
Accunia European CLO II priced yesterday in a deal arranged by Deutsche Bank

Alcentra European CLO refi sees triple As price at 84bp
Alcentra has priced its seventh transaction in the European CLO market this year in a deal arranged by Barclays

PGIM brings its European CLO issuance over €2 billion following reset
PGIM has priced its first European CLO reset of the year in a €510.7 million transaction

Price talk tightens on upcoming Accunia European CLO
Deutsche Bank has upsized the CLO it is currently finalising with Copenhagen's Accunia, according to market sources

2017 PGIM deal tops ranking of best-performing European CLOs
A PGIM-managed 2017 deal, Dryden 48 Euro CLO, made its first equity distribution in August, with the €6 million payment pushing the deal to the top of our CLO performance rankings for the month

Schroders debuts its first UK infrastructure debt fund
Schroders has announced the launch of its UK Infrastructure Debt fund, which will target investment from UK pension funds and insurance companies

Price talk tightens as Citi prepares European manager's first CLO of 2017
Citi is marketing a new European CLO with price talk on the triple As moving to 87-88bp

Update: European CLO league tables
Barclays, the leading arranger of European CLOs this year, has a lead of €530 million at the top of the 2017 league tables (as of the end of August)

Alcentra prices its sixth European CLO transaction of 2017
The €516.8 million deal pays the tighest triple-A spread following a Euro reset since April

League table update: Barclays takes a lead in euro CLO new issue
New European CLO volumes this year have been strong, at €9.9 billion by the end of August, making up the biggest part of the European primary market

CLO round-up: number of US managers unfazed by risk retention hits 70
It says a lot about the CLO market this year that a week in which $1.6 billion of new issue paper prices qualifies as a 'quiet' week. Our analysis finds that 70 managers have priced new US CLOs this year - a 52% increase on 2016

Marathon leads the pack to top US CLO performance tables
Recently refinanced CLOs top our ranking of the deals with the highest equity distributions over the last week with Marathon Asset Management leading the way

Bain prices its first new issue European CLO of the year
The deal, which was arranged by Citi, will close on 12th October according to market sources

US pension fund agrees $200 million investment in new GSO distressed fund
GSO Capital Partners has got off to a strong start as it markets a new distressed debt fund. There are signs that the multi-billion offering is being sold in South Korea