BofA hires US CLO structurer from JP Morgan
Bank of America has hired a former JP Morgan official to its US CLO structuring team

Fidelity issues loan-format triple As in new US CLO via Bank of America
Fidelity Investments has priced its second new CLO of 2021, naming the deal Ballyrock CLO 16

AGL focuses on ESG-compliance with $603.7 million CLO via BofA
AGL Credit Management has teamed up with Bank of America to issue a new $603.7 million CLO named AGL CLO 12

Post-covid CLO reset market heats up as Jocassee, PGIM and Oaktree price
The post-covid CLO reset spree is well underway as three managers - Jocassee Partners, PGIM and Oaktree Capital Capital Management - reworked deals that originally issued in April or May 2020

LCM and Vibrant print $772.5 million worth of CLO refis
LCM Asset Management and Vibrant Capital Partners have each refinanced legacy CLO tranches, adding another $772.5 million of refi supply

Global CLO trading lab: Octagon CLO comes out top in CLO double B spike
Double B-rated bonds made up 40% of the European and US CLO secondary markets last week. $222 million of US CLO double B bonds were on sale and a further €105 million of European CLO double B items were listed

CSAM teams up with Nomura on new issue CLO for first time
Credit Suisse Asset Management has completed its third new CLO of 2021 and its first ever new deal to print via Nomura

First Eagle teams with BNP Paribas on US CLO
First Eagle Investment Management issued a new $409.7 million CLO on Friday named Wind River 2021-2

CLO pipeline: Five out, five in as market digests new issuance wave
Five new issue US CLOs priced from last week’s pipeline, but five more have replaced them in this week's edition of our pipeline report

Octagon joins ranks of post-covid CLO resetters
Octagon Credit Investors has joined the exclusive group of managers to reset a CLO priced post-covid. The firm teamed up with Citi to rework Octagon Investment Partners 47

Wellfleet CLO reset employs unusual reinvestment duration
Wellfleet Credit Partners priced an unusual CLO reset on Wednesday that extends the reinvestment period of its 2019 deal, Wellfleet CLO X, by 10 months

CLO spreads trend tighter as Neuberger Berman scores 153.75bp funding cost
Neuberger Berman has priced the tightest new issue CLO since 9 April, the second time that record has been broken this week as liability spreads finally move tighter

Napier Park slashes Euro CLO costs on post-covid deal reset
Napier Park has cut over 90 basis points off the cost of CLO financing on a post-covid deal, Henley CLO II

US CLO spreads tighten sharply as Blackstone prints record fifth new issue of 2021
Blackstone Credit became the first CLO manager to issue five new US CLOs this year on Monday, securing the lowest funding costs in over a month in the process

First Eagle's first mid market CLO from 2019 gets reset treatment
First Eagle Investment Management worked with Natixis on Monday to reset its inaugural middle market CLO from 2019 named Lake Shore MM CLO I

TCW resets 2020 CLO for a second time
TCW Group completed a historic transaction on Monday by resetting a post-covid CLO for a second time, according to market sources

CLO marketing specialist joins King Street in New York
King Street Capital has hired the head of business development from a large CLO investor

Global CLO pricing lab: investors get over fatigue and embrace reset roll over
The demand for CLOs is showing no signs of slowing down after the market had experienced some fatigue at the end of the first quarter and into the second. In the last two weeks, there have been 47 CLO transactions across all forms of pricing in the three markets; led by 18 US CLO new issues

KKR prints new $406.05 million CLO via GreensLedge
KKR Credit teamed up with GreensLedge on Friday to produce its latest CLO offering

Rockford Tower and Credit Suisse print first CLO as partnership
Rockford Tower Capital Management teamed up with Credit Suisse on Friday for the two firms' first ever new issue CLO as partnership

Invesco lands second tightest US CLO debt execution of Q2
Invesco has priced the tightest US CLO for almost a month, teaming with Natixis on the $512.6 million deal named Invesco 2021-2

DoubleLine returns to CLO primary with first new issue in eight months
DoubleLine Capital returned to the CLO primary market on Friday with its first new issue deal in eight months

CLO pipeline: new issue becomes name of game with 14 managers preparing to price
Only $3.2 billion of CLO paper priced globally across all forms of pricings this past week. But the market looks to set to explode back into life with 14 US CLO new issues in the pipeline

New issue CLO dry spell ends as Ares produces tight US deal
Ares Management has broken a six-day new issue CLO drought, teaming up with Goldman Sachs on its second deal of 2021 named Ares LX

Supply/demand technical forces CLO spreads to shoot wide
CLO spreads defied positive economic conditions and blew out in March and April. The widening came despite ample liquidity and investors looking to rotate into floating rate assets