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

PGIM embarks on European CLO comeback with first deal since early March
PGIM is set to price its first post-covid European CLO as the manager markets Dryden 79 with triple A notes within range of a deal which it priced in early March

Napier Park plans second European CLO in four months
Napier Park Global is set to price its third European CLO, Henley CLO III, with the transaction anticipated to price next week

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

Neuberger Berman prints third largest and second tightest post-covid CLO
Neuberger Berman has priced its third new issue CLO of 2020, according to market sources

BlackRock prices tightest post-covid CLO by far
BlackRock has priced a new issue CLO named Magnetite XXVIII via Barclays, scoring by far the tightest post-covid debt execution

Five Arrows prices third US CLO of 2020 for new personal best
Five Arrows Managers has built on its US CLO issuance boom with its third new issue of 2020

New Mountain markets debut CLO via Wells Fargo
New Mountain Capital is set to become the first manager to issue its debut CLO post-covid, with the firm marketing an inaugural deal via Wells Fargo

CLO pipeline: managers large, small and new ready to price in post-Labour Day surge
US managers are preparing a wave of new issue CLOs in the coming days, as the usual post-Labour Day pricing surge comes to fruition even in this most unusual of years