US league tables: huge demand sees CLO volumes rise and funding costs fall
The fourth quarter spike in CLO volumes, which has long been a tradition, is in full flow in 2017 with $13.08 billion of new issue paper pricing in the US last month

New CLO equity is being locked up
In what could be a sign of things to come, controlling blocks of equity in CLOs subject to risk retention have not been readily available in the secondary market this year. By Tanvi Gupta

US CLO spreads continue to tighten as THL Credit prices its latest deal
THL Credit Partners priced its 10th transaction in the US CLO market this year yesterday

Ares prices triple As at 117bp in $658 million US CLO reset
Ares priced its 11th transaction in the US CLO market yesterday

ArrowMark prices its second new CLO of 2017
325 Fillmore – an affiliate of ArrowMark Partners - has priced a $464 million CLO, according to market sources

CIFC liquidates CLO-focused fund
Private debt manager CIFC has liquidated a closed-end fund known as the CLO Opportunity Fund I, but has launched a successor fund

Middle market CLO spreads tighten as Citi prices reset
A New York manager priced its second middle market CLO transaction of 2017 yesterday, according to market sources

US CLO round-up: GoldenTree and Oak Hill make hay as spreads hit new lows
GoldenTree Loan Management and Oak Hill Advisors have shown that now is as good a time as any to be launching a new US CLO

CSAM brings 2017 US CLO volumes over $10 billion as it prices new deal
The manager priced its 15th transaction on the US CLO market this year on Friday, according to market sources

US CLO round-up: trend-setting managers show 2015 refis are in fashion
The fourth-quarter CLO rush is well and truly in motion with $3.4 billion of CLO paper pricing in the US - and refis of 2015 deals are becoming increasingly important

Wells Fargo takes the lead role as GoldenTree plans its next US CLO
It's Wells Fargo's turn to take the lead as GoldenTree plans the second CLO under its multi-arranger programme

Mid-market CLO volumes hit $12.2 billion as Wells Fargo prices new deal
Wells Fargo, the lead arranger of mid-market CLOs, has now issued close to $6 billion this year

Investors prefer direct lending to CLOs
For the first time in the history of Creditflux’s credit allocator survey, investors have voted direct lending the best investment in credit. CLOs came joint second. By Michelle D’souza

MJX issues over $1 billion in one day as it prices CLO refi and reset
MJX Asset Management priced two transactions in the US CLO market yesterday, bringing its 2017 volumes to $6.93 billion

Anchorage upsizes 2015 CLO by 36.6% with new refi deal
The manager refinances $595.75 million of liabilities and injects $74.5 million equity

US league tables: new kid on the block CBAM topples CLO heavyweights
There’s a new kid on the block and it's starting to upstage the established order in CLO management

Finding horizontal and vertical angles
2017 CLOs where managers hold a vertical strip have higher spread portfolios and higher leverage than those with a horizontal risk retention investment. By Tanvi Gupta

CSAM completes its US CLO refi/reset business with latest transaction
CSAM has priced its 14th transaction on the US CLO market this year, according to market sources

US CLO round-up: debutants and giants combine in huge week of issuance
Six new issues have priced this week - with the manager list including an AUM leader, a debutant, a renamed manager and a firm that has waited 916 days to re-enter the CLO market, before pricing two deals in two days

Assurant prices debut CLO as former Elliott structured credit trader joins
Insurance company Assurant has priced its first CLO and hired Morgan Stanley to arrange the deal -- also hiring Vincent Chan, formerly of Elliott Management, to help lead structure efforts in Assurant’s new CLO platforms

Mid-market CLO issuance crosses $10 billion as Madison prices reset
Madison Capital Funding priced a reset of a 2014 middle-market CLO this week, according to market sources

US CLO round-up: vacation time is over as CLO market bursts into life
The US primary issuance market is slowly coming to life and this week two new issues, two resets priced and one refi has priced, contributing $2.6 billion to CLO supply this week.

Mid-market CLO round-up: Monroe earns joint-tightest triple-A print of 2017
Monroe Capital ends the week with a bang by pricing its first mid-market CLO of the year - Monroe Capital MML CLO 2017-1 - with senior notes pricing at just 160bp

Accunia prices its second CLO in €386.6 million transaction
Accunia European CLO II priced yesterday in a deal arranged by Deutsche Bank

Golub's mid-market deals dominate US CLO performance ranking
Mid-market CLOs dominate our rankings of the best performing US CLOs in August with three deals from Golub Capital Partners featuring in our top 10