Global CLO league tables at a glance - November 2019 YTD
Global CLO league tables at a glance - November 2019 YTD

Mid market CLO league tables: first time managers crack the top five
Five new issue middle market CLOs priced in November for a combined total of $2 billion with Audax and Owl Rock doubling down in 2019.

US CLO league tables: CSAM pulls away from pack
The back and forth tussle between Octagon Credit Investors and Credit Suisse Asset Management for the lead in the US CLO issuance league tables took a new turn in November

US loan trading: CLO managers flee Acosta but gorge on Buckeye
Loan holdings in October gave CLO managers a taste of the good, the bad and the ugly: they feasted on Buckeye, fled Acosta, and could not get rid of Deluxe   

Highland Capital Management LP bankruptcy moves to hostile territory
Highland is set to return to the scene of trauma, as its restructuring moves to a Texas bankruptcy court

Flexible CLOs grow in popularity as two managers eye triple C-heavy deals
Two credit managers - Anchorage Capital Group and Gateway Credit Partners - are in the market with their inaugural CLOs featuring high allowance for triple C assets

Wellfleet partners with Goldman Sachs for first time to market new CLO
Wellfleet Credit Partners is in the market with its first new issue CLO to be arranged by Goldman Sachs, according to market sources

Global CLO b-wic round-up: Junior mezz covers return while triple A supply drives big week
Narrowing of the bid-ask gap that has plagued junior mezzanine tranches could bring a change of fortunes in the US CLO secondary market 

Morgan Stanley IM prices debut CLO after $50 million upsize
Morgan Stanley Investment Management priced its debut CLO on Friday, becoming the 14^th first-time CLO issuer in the US market of the year

Double Bs tighten as Regatta prices junior CLO debt at 730bp
Regatta Loan Management, the CLO management entity linked to Napier Park Global Capital, has joined the select number of US CLO issuers to price double-B rated debt at less than 800 basis points

HSBC notches up first US CLO arranging credit
HSBC has teamed up with Natixis as co-arranger on the latest new issue CLO from Cerberus Business Finance

Norinchukin's CLO portfolio decreases for first time in years
Japanese CLO heavyweight Norinchukin posted its financial statements yesterday, where it reported a 1.42% drop from its statements at the end of the second quarter

Marathon issues CLO with limitation on B3 loans
Marathon Asset Management’s new $405 million US CLO has a 25% cap on loans rated B3 and below, says a source close to the deal

CLO tranche investor leaves Carlyle after 12 years
The New York-based co-head of global structured credit has parted ways with Carlyle, sources say. The firm is understood to have appointed a replacement in London

Conservative approach pays off as Kayne Anderson issues tight CLO triple Bs
US loan managers that run conservative portfolios are being rewarded in the primary CLO market with tighter junior debt financing

Audax goes for longer reinvestment period with second mid market CLO
Audax Private Debt yesterday priced its second CLO backed by loans to middle market companies, according to market sources

Barings matches November benchmark with new US CLO
Barings yesterday returned to the CLO primary market with the tightest triple A print on the month

Churchill splits double Bs for first mid market CLO in two years
Churchill Asset Management has priced its first middle market CLO of the year in a transaction which underlines how lower-rated CLO debt tranches are increasingly being carved up into senior and junior pieces

Mid market CLO league tables: springing back into life after September drought
After a September hiatus, three managers returned to mid market CLOs in October to bring issuance back on track as monthly volume exceeded $1 billion for the sixth time this year

Global CLO league tables at a glance - October 2019 YTD
Global CLO league tables at a glance - October 2019 YTD

US CLO league tables: Octagon retakes US lead, but CSAM still on top globally
Octagon Credit Investors priced Octagon 45 via Goldman Sachs to overtake CSAM by just $33.3 million in overall US issuance, but CSAM still leads the way in new US CLO and global CLO issuance

GSO completes 12th CLO transaction of 2019 as junior spreads edge wider
It has been, by the firm's own standards, a slow year for the largest CLO manager globally, but nevertheless GSO Capital Partners has completed 12 transactions in 2019

CLO issuers split triple Bs as mezz demand shrinks
A sharp fall in US loan prices has meant that the value in CLO structures is shifting out of mezzanine tranches and into equity. There is a similar dynamic at play in the credit index tranche market, where sources say value has shifted out of mezz and into equity amid an increase in idiosyncratic credit risk.

Fidelity issues first three-year CLO since June
Fidelity has brought a CLO with a three-year reinvestment period, the first new issue deal with this shorter duration to come to the US market since June

Few CLOs charred by Murray bankruptcy
25 CLO managers hold  $389.6 million exposure to the debt of coal company Murray Energy Holdings, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i