Brigade follows its playbook as it promotes senior analyst to replace outgoing CLO PM
Brigade Capital Management is promoting a senior analyst to replace its CLO portfolio manager, who is set to leave for another role. It used a similar approach of promoting from its research team in 2016. 

Niagara falls: CLO spreads come down in Blackstone refi to highlight 2019 v 2021 basis
Blackstone Credit has refinanced one of its 2019 US CLOs. The CLO, Niagara Park CLO, has three years of reinvestment remaining and while the seniors priced inside the five-year Point Au Roche (100bp to 108bp), mezzanine tranches were wider despite the refi's shorter tenor.

Q2 senior and junior CLO spreads appear to converge as Sound Point prints new deal
Sound Point Capital Management has reached a landmark after printing Sound Point CLO XXX via JP Morgan on Friday, according to market sources. The deal suggested that senior CLO spreads have widened, while juniors have compressed since the start of the quarter

LSTA, LMA and Elfa publish standardised ESG questionnaire for CLO managers
The Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA), Europe’s Loan Markets Association (LMA) and the European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) – have teamed up to launch a new ‘standardised’ ESG due diligence questionnaire for CLO managers

Canyon splits triple As into senior and junior notes following CLO refi
Canyon Capital teamed with Barclays on Friday to refinance the entire stack of Canyon CLO 2019-1

Redding Ridge prints fourth-largest new CLO of the year at $706.6 million
Redding Ridge Asset Management priced the fourth-largest new issue CLO of the year 

First Eagle inserts single Bs in 2019 CLO with reset
First Eagle Investment Management teamed up with Natixis on Friday to reset Wind River CLO 2019-1, upsizing the deal by $9.5 million in the process

Deutsche Bank arranges third new US CLO of 2021 with $407.9m deal for Sculptor
Deutsche Bank priced its third new US CLO of the year

ArrowMark prints eighth Goldman-arranged CLO
ArrowMark Partners has teamed up with Goldman Sachs to issue its second new CLO of 2021

HPS joins group of managers to upsize CLO equity with reset
HPS Investment Partners has joined the burgeoning group of CLO managers to upsize their equity tranche following a CLO reset

AGL and PGIM reset and upsize 2020 CLOs
AGL Credit Management and PGIM are the latest managers to reset post-covid CLOs issued in 2020, with both managers opting to upsize their deals

CLO pipeline: all-time CLO issuance records come under threat
14 new issues in US and three European new CLOs look to price in the coming weeks

CLO equity fluctuates as resets trigger upsizes and downsizes
A once-rare move of CLO issuers upsizing or downsizing their equity tranches in resets is entering the mainstream

Five Arrows teams up with Citi on new US CLO for first time
Five Arrows Managers has priced its first US CLO of 2021, after printing three deals in 2020

US CLO syndication head leaves Goldman Sachs
The head of CLO and ABS syndication at Goldman Sachs in New York has resigned from his post

AIG joins ranks of post-covid CLO resetters
AIG Asset Management became the 12th manager to reset a post-covid CLO on Tuesday, teaming up with Natixis to rework AIG CLO 2020-1

Brigade marches on as it brings 2021 US CLO new issue volume to $1.7bn
Brigade Capital Management priced its fourth CLO of 2021 on Tuesday, bringing its new issue volume for the year to $1.65 billion

Sancus sails into CLO management with debut deal as triple As hit 132bp
Sancus Capital Management brought its debut CLO to market on Friday via Jefferies, completing its transition from CLO investor to manager

Barclays hires experienced CLO syndication official in New York
The former head of US CLO syndication at a bank has landed at Barclays

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

HalseyPoint brings CLOs under management to $1.75bn with fourth deal
HalseyPoint Asset Management issued its fourth CLO on Friday, bringing its total CLO volume under management to $1.75 billion

Two managers reset huge 2017 CLOs, boosting supply by $2.25 billion
Ares Management and CBAM have each priced resets of CLOs issued in 2017, adding $2.25 billion of supply to the market

CSAM brings 2021 new issue volume over $2.3 billion in US
Credit Suisse Asset Management has priced its fourth US CLO of the year, bringing its issuance volume over $2.3 billion as a result

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

Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD