Fidelity prices first three-year reinvestment CLO since sell-off
Fidelity Investments has issued its second post-covid CLO, and its first with a market standard three-year reinvestment period

Global CLO round-up: fresh start for five year deals as market reopens
The CLO market is still producing deals at a good pace, with $2.6 billion of global issuance last week. Four new issue deals priced in the US with Intermediate Capital Group and NYL Investors pricing their first transactions of the year while CVC Credit Partners made it two and Barings three in 2020

Deutsche Bank returns to US BSL new issue CLOs with first print in over 16 months
Deutsche Bank has priced its first US CLO backed by broadly syndicated loans in over 16 months after teaming up with CVC Credit Partners to issue the $402.5 million Apidos CLO XXXIV

NYL prints five-year reinvestment CLO with triple As at 130bp
New York Life Investment Management has brought the second five-year reinvestment CLO to market and placed its triple A notes at just 130 basis points over Libor 

Barings prices second US CLO in a month
Barings has stepped up the pace of its US CLO issuance, pricing its second 2020 new issue yesterday less than one month after pricing its first

Four US CLO refis highlight diverging manager strategies
Four US CLO managers - Ares Management, GSO Capital Partners, Marathon Asset Management and Voya Alternative Asset Management - have each refinanced fixed-rate CLO tranches, with the four deals totalling $69 million in paper. But new strategies are beginning to emerge

US and European CLO portfolio managers set to leave Onex
A pair of experienced CLO portfolio managers are leaving Onex at the end of the year. Sources say Onex remains committed to the CLO business, having issued three deals globally since May

CLO pipeline: primary tightening opens door for CLO managers to print new issues
The CLO primary market is hitting a fast pace as it enters the last quarter of 2020. Last week brought a surge of new issuance as 11 US, two European and one mid market CLO manager priced their latest transactions

ICG issues first new US CLO in over 12 months
Intermediate Capital Group has printed its first new US CLO in over 12 months, teaming up with Bank of America on the $401.8 million ICG US CLO 2020-1

Voya passes $1 billion US CLO issuance in 2020
Voya Alternative Asset Management has surpassed $1 billion CLO new issuance since the March coronavirus sell off began, joining the ranks of managers to print three transactions in this time

AGL cements post-covid US CLO lead with fifth new issue
AGL Credit Management has consolidated its position as the most prolific CLO manager post-covid after becoming the first firm to print five new issues in the US

Morgan Stanley IM prices first new CLO following Assurant deal
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has issued its first CLO since buying the contracts to four deals previously managed by Assurant

Anchorage returns to three-year reinvestment structure for latest CLO
Anchorage Capital Group has returned to the market-standard three-year CLO structure for its latest Barclays-arranged deal, Anchorage Capital CLO 16

Morgan Stanley IM markets first CLO since Assurant buy-out
Morgan Stanley Investment Management is marketing its first CLO since buying the management contracts of four deals previously managed by Assurant

NYL markets five-year CLO with spreads poised to move tighter than Q4
NYL Investors is marketing a five-year reinvestment US CLO with price guidance indicating CLO spreads are tighter than they were during the sell off in the fourth quarter of 2019. However, IG and HY credit are on different paths

Aegon matches BlackRock for tightest CLO triple A print since March
Aegon USA Investment Management has priced one of the tightest CLO structures post-covid via JP Morgan, with a triple A note printing at 127 basis points over Libor

OC health check: August reports slow torrent of fresh breaches to a trickle
198 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation (OC) breach in August, only three of which were completely new breaches. This is a slowdown from July, when 230 deals suffered some kind of OC breach, according to the latest reports from CLO-i  

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