Ares prices second tightest CLO post-covid with 180.5bp funding costs
Ares Management has priced its second US CLO amid the coronavirus pandemic, securing the second tightest funding costs for a three-year reinvestment deal since the March sell off

Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO lower mezz tightens while equity investors strive for duration
A large supply of CLO paper flooded the secondary market last week as $1.5 billion of US CLO bonds and €370 million of European CLOs were listed, according to CLO-i

Antares makes middle market CLO return with delayed-draw double Bs
Antares Capital has priced the third largest new CLO amid the coronavirus pandemic, after teaming with BNP Paribas on Friday to place its first primary market transaction of 2020

Five year structures back in vogue as Diameter prices bond flex CLO
Diameter Capital Partners has priced the third five-year CLO structure amid the coronavirus pandemic, after teaming with GreensLedge to issue its latest CBO named Diameter Credit Funding III,

PGIM brings post-covid US CLO volume to $1.43 billion with third new issue
PGIM has joined the ranks of US CLO managers to issue three new CLOs post-covid after pricing Dryden 85 CLO via BNP Paribas on Thursday

HarbourVest fights back over CLO fund investment after Highland's objection
HarbourVest Partners, the key investor in risk retention vehicle Highland CLO Funding, has shot back at Highland Capital Management in court, arguing it had not insisted on changing the manager on its CLO fund from Acis to Highland, as Highland had claimed

Global CLO b-wic round-up: dealers get involved amid rally, but dispersion persists
The CLO secondary markets returned to form last week with $716.2 million of US CLO bonds and a further €306.5 million of European CLO paper listed. Although for both markets over half of the total volume listed came from Thursday’s scheduled b-wics

Junior triple A-double A basis narrows as CIFC prices third post-covid CLO
CIFC Asset Management on Friday became just the ninth CLO manager to issue three new US CLOs post-covid after teaming with Citi on the $498.3 million deal named CIFC Funding 2020-III

Neuberger Berman prints third largest and second tightest post-covid CLO
Neuberger Berman has priced its third new issue CLO of 2020, according to market sources

BlackRock prices tightest post-covid CLO by far
BlackRock has priced a new issue CLO named Magnetite XXVIII via Barclays, scoring by far the tightest post-covid debt execution

Five Arrows prices third US CLO of 2020 for new personal best
Five Arrows Managers has built on its US CLO issuance boom with its third new issue of 2020

New Mountain markets debut CLO via Wells Fargo
New Mountain Capital is set to become the first manager to issue its debut CLO post-covid, with the firm marketing an inaugural deal via Wells Fargo

CLO pipeline: managers large, small and new ready to price in post-Labour Day surge
US managers are preparing a wave of new issue CLOs in the coming days, as the usual post-Labour Day pricing surge comes to fruition even in this most unusual of years

CLO triple As tighten to 138bp as Bain prices new issue
Bain Capital Credit has priced its third new CLO of 2020 with a record-breaking 138 basis points triple A spread

Barings brings CLO market tighter with first new issue of 2020
Barings has priced its first regular way new CLO of 2020, and pulled the market a little tighter in the process. The manager teamed up with JP Morgan to print the $350.05 million deal, named Barings CLO 2020-1

Three CLO managers join rush to refi or reprice fixed rate CLO tranches
Three CLO managers - American Money Management Corporation, Teachers Advisors, and ArrowMark Colorado Holdings - have jumped on the fixed rate CLO refinancing or repricing trend

Anchorage prices first five-year CLO structure since March
Five-year CLO structures have returned for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak, thanks to a bond flex deal issued by Anchorage Capital Group

10-day US CLO warehouses open up as managers split transactions
A report by Maples Group finds there have been several opportunistic US CLO warehouses that have launched since mid-June with durations as short as 10 days

Black Diamond prices first CLO primary deal for over 12 months with refi
Black Diamond Capital Management has joined the fixed-rate CLO refinancing surge by teaming up with Goldman Sachs to refinance two tranches of Black Diamond 2016-1

US CLO league tables: AGL grabs new issue lead
AGL Credit Management has added to an impressive run of CLO deal-making, pricing its fifth US new issue of 2020

Global CLO league tables - August 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - August 2020 YTD

Banks tighten asset approval terms for CLO warehouses
Managers have raised concerns over tighter, lender-friendly terms in new-look US CLO warehouses as banks gradually reopen these lending facilities

CLOs at a glance: CLO managers are quite partial to a refi
There was a wave of CLO partial refinancing in August as equity investors capitalised on lower interest rates to cut the coupon on fixed rate tranches

First Eagle prices one-year mid market CLO
First Eagle has priced its latest CLO backed by middle market loans

Details emerge on nature of Revlon payment 'error' and lender attitudes
Fresh details have emerged on the nature of the ‘operational error’ Citi says took place when it transferred $900 million to Revlon loan holders