Fidelity and Onex price new CLOs in busiest issuance day for 2023 so far
Fidelity Investments and Onex Credit Partners both priced a new CLO on Thursday, pushing daily issuance volumes to $1.35 billion on the busiest day for US CLO primary activity so far this year

Lights go out for Heritage Power with 120 CLOs left in the dark
US based power plant operator Heritage Power filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the bankruptcy court of Texas on Tuesday night, impacting $124.45 million of assets held by 120 US CLOs.

Short-dated CLO spreads sit at market wides as OFS and Sycamore print three-year deals
OFS Capital Management and Sycamore Tree Capital Partners each priced a new CLO on Wednesday with a short reinvestment period of just three years

TCW issues new CLO from its Jefferies strategic partnership
TCW Group has priced its fifth CLO under its strategic partnership with Jefferies

US CLO pipeline: Oak Hill aims for tightest triple As since July, as other CLO markets at 245bp
Nine US CLO managers are in various stages of marketing their latest CLOs, and while Oak Hill is seeking a benchmark-setting deal, there are other CLOs that are expected to price well wide of this

Comment period deadline nears as NAIC mulls 100% capital charge for CLO equity
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is pressing ahead with its proposal to increase capital charges for US insurers’ CLO equity investments to 75% or 100%

Invesco prints $600 million CLO via MUFG
Invesco priced its fifth largest new deal in its history of CLO issuance on Thursday, teaming with MUFG to place the $596.15 million deal named Invesco CLO 2023-1

Palmer Square prints new CLO with 250.5bp funding costs
Palmer Square Capital Management teamed up with Bank of America on Thursday to print a new $396.1 million CLO

BlackRock scores tightest US CLO triple A print in over six months
BlackRock priced its first CLO of the year on Wednesday, placing its triple A notes at Sofr plus 187 basis points and scoring the tightest senior print in over six months in the process

Sound Point holding CLO M&A talks which could catapult it to fifth-largest manager
Sound Point Capital Management is locked in talks with a large, global CLO manager over a deal that could take its CLO AUM north of $36 billion

First new US CLOs of 2023 print triple A notes at 210bp
The first new US CLOs of the year priced on Friday, with triple A spreads coming in significantly tight of market averages from late 2022

Beneath the triple C: Life could be better, but it’s just a letter, under the CCC
Many market participants were eagerly looking forward to a break in December after a gruelling year, but the rating agencies were in no mood to oblige. 

Marathon adopts new style and branding for first CLO under new management
Marathon Asset Management is set to adopt a new naming convention for the first CLO it issues under new leadership

US CLO pipeline: Triple A dispersion coming to fore as Palmer Square aims to open market again
The US CLO market is set to reopen with five managers in various stages of marketing new issue CLOs, according to sources

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub makes it six straight while Natixis blows away the competition
In a trying year, issuance of mid market CLOs dropped a considerable amount. Total volumes dropped from $43.6 billion in 2021 to $20.8 billion in 2022, a 52% decrease year-on-year

US CLO league tables: Blackstone and BofA rise above competition in volatile 2022
A tumultuous year in the US CLO market led to total issuance dropping from a record $391.2 billion in 2021 to $134.8 billion in 2022

Global 2022 CLO league tables
Global 2022 CLO league tables

CLO rankings: manager AUM, advisory firm and trustees Q4 2022
As 2022 draws to a close manager consolidation through mergers and acquisitions have been balanced out by new market entrants to leave roughly the same number of managers that entered the year, at least for now.

Guggenheim returns with second new US CLO in two months
Guggenheim priced a second new US CLO in as many months in late December, bringing a striking end to its two-year pause on new issuance

CLO 2023 Outlook: CLOs look set to rise to the challenge of a tough 2023
CLO researchers had an (understandable) inability to accurately predict the staggering array of macro shocks that affected the CLO market this year. So it comes as a surprise that overall CLO issuance reached a lot closer to anticipated levels than many would have expected back in Q2

CLO managers get dusters out for ‘clean-up’ issuance
As leveraged loan prices recovered some of their value through November, a number of CLO issuers took the opportunity to term out underwater warehouses

Beneath the triple C: Winter is coming for CLOs as downgrades outstrip upgrades
Both US and European issuers have felt downward pressure from the rating agencies as we head towards the end of the year, with downgrades to triple C now firmly outpacing upgrades out of it.

BofA withdraws forecast for US banks to return to CLO investing en masse in 2023
Bank of America has withdrawn its forecast that US banks will make any signficant return to investing in CLOs in 2023 following comments from the Federal Reserve's vice chair for supervision suggesting that capital requirements could increase further next year

Rockford Tower opts for unusual non-call duration in latest new CLO
Rockford Tower Capital Management priced a new CLO on Thursday, opting for an unconventional 1.5-year non-call period

The Last Tranche with MidOcean's Rotondo: retail bid is the wildcard in leveraged loan market
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Joe Rotondo, senior portfolio manager on the credit investments team at MidOcean Partners, looks back on a turbulent year for the leveraged loan asset class