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

Blackstone scores one of tightest ever 2.0 US CLO funding costs
Blackstone Credit has priced one of the tightest 2.0 CLOs ever with funding costs of just 141.61 basis points

PGIM refis 2018 CLO with triple and double Bs wider
PGIM has saved 12.34 basis points after refinancing its 2018 CLO named Dryden 61. Unusually for a refi, the triple and double B notes were wider than in their original issue form

Allstate produces curve-flattening, benchmark-setting CLO as five-year triple As hit 99bp
CLO re-tiering is gathering pace with Allstate Investment Management Company moving into the top bracket of CLO issuers, judging by the firm’s new five-year US CLO which priced Thursday

Moving fast pays off for hedge funds
2020 was an up and down year in credit, and credit hedge fund managers had to move quickly to capture opportunities from the dislocations that inevitably opened up

Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
New year, same funds leading the way with CLO strategies the top performers in January

Ucits at a glance: CIFC nears positive 12-month returns
Ucits funds have started 2021 on a quiet note as 72% of funds achieved a positive return

High yield fund sets pace with 22% return in January
Wasserstein Debt Opportunities Fund has set the early pace for credit hedge funds in 2021 after registering a 21.7% gain in January. This builds on the high yield fund’s success last year and takes 12-month returns to 40.44%. 

Neuberger Berman joins tightest CLO resetters with triple As at 104bp
Neuberger Berman has reset its 2017 vintage CLO named Neuberger Berman CLO XVI-S, with the triple A notes printing at just 104 basis points over Libor