Ares affiliate re-emerges in mid market with first primary CLO for three years
Ivy Hill Asset Management, the direct lending affiliate of Ares Management, has priced its first CLO primary market transaction in almost three years, completing a $499.3 million new issue backed by loans to middle market companies

Anchorage joins ranks of managers to issue CLO triple As as loans
Anchorage Capital Group has joined the trend of CLO managers to issue triple As in loan format with a reset of its 2019 deal named Anchorage CLO 13

BlueMountain US CLO reset splits triple B piece
Assured Investment Management has reset a 2019 vintage CLO, tightening the top tranches. The reset also split the triple Bs into two pieces.

Golub partners with GreensLedge for second reset of 2014 deal
The manager paired with Greensledge on the CLO's first reset in April 2017

Big US CLO investor crystalises gains with $101 million mezz sale
A well-known CLO investor has emerged as a repeat seller of CLO tranches this year, with sources indicating the firm has been monetising gains it made from purchases over the past year

Rockford Tower splits CLO triple Bs with thin junior tranche paying 525bp
Rockford Tower Capital Management has split its triple B notes as the US CLO market drifts wider.

Kayne shows it's able with tight double B CLO print
Kayne Anderson has defied the tide that is pushing double B CLO spreads to 800 basis points by producing a new issue with double Bs pricing at par and paying 625 basis points

MidOcean employs rare tranche structure with 2016 US CLO reset
MidOcean Credit Fund Management has reset a 2016 vintage US CLO via Jefferies, upping the deal size slightly and shaving its funding costs in an unusual reconfiguration of tranches

High-spread US CLO manager issues triple As at 113.5bp
A large US CLO manager has issued its second US CLO of the year in a deal that suggests that CLO spreads could be moving wider

Neuberger Berman issues new US CLO as its 2021 volume spikes to $2.9 billion
Neuberger Berman has finalised its sixth US CLO transaction of the year. Bank of America arranged the $410 million new issue named Neuberger Berman Loan Advisers CLO 41

Octagon forgoes EU risk retention compliance with latest US CLO
Octagon Credit Investors teamed up with Wells Fargo on Friday to print its second new issue CLO of 2021

Redding Ridge goes big with $318 million upsize of 2017 CLO via reset
Redding Ridge Asset Management has reset its 2017 vintage CLO named RR 2, upsizing the deal by $317.7 million in the process

Greywolf upsizes 2013 CLO by over $120 million
Greywolf Loan Management has reset its oldest active CLO from 2013, named Greywolf CLO II, upsizing the deal by over $120 million in the process

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

Madison matches mid-market tights with first CLO primary deal since July
Madison Capital priced its first CLO deal in eight months on Wednesday, teaming up with Wells Fargo to reset 2017's MCF CLO V for an extra four years of reinvestment

GoldenTree joins 2021's top five biggest CLOs with $707.1 million deal
GoldenTree Asset Management priced a $707.1 million CLO reset on Wedesday, catapulting the deal straight into the top five largest broadly syndicated loan-backed CLO transactions by volume for 2021

Ares joins group of tight US issuers with sixth tightest 2021 CLO
Ares Management became the eighth CLO manager of the year to issue a five-year deal with funding costs below 150bp on Tuesday by teaming up with Natixis on its latest issue named Ares LIX

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

Barings' new US CLO joins group of tight 2021 prints
Barings has produced its first new CLO of 2020, teaming up with JP Morgan on the $359.2 million deal named Barings CLO 2021-I

US CLO league tables: CLOs put on extra weight in February
Deal sizes increase as demand soars

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

CIFC's 102bp triple As pull CLO average tighter
CIFC Asset Management priced its second CLO of the year on Friday with the triple A notes coming in at 102 basis points over Libor

Morgan Stanley IM ups CLO pace with second new deal in four months
Morgan Stanley investment management has cranked up the pace of its new CLO formation by printing its second deal in just four months

CLO refi spree heats up with $1.84 billion in one day
Another $1.84 billion of CLO paper refinanced on Friday as five managers - PineBridge Investments, Credit Suisse Asset Management, Mackay Shields, Steele Creek and MJX Asset Management - took to the primary market to cut their funding costs

AIG offers single B notes in largest CLO to date
AIG Asset Management issued its largets CLO to date on Thursday. Named AIG CLO 2021-1, the transaction came in at a par value of $515.3 million