First Eagle brings first new mid-market CLO since start of Ukraine crisis
First Eagle Investment Management has priced the first new middle market CLO since Russia's invasion of Ukraine sparked high volatility in the credit market

Spac pricing hints at Sound Point's growth ambitions in loan market
Sound Point Acquisition Corp has priced a $225 million IPO, signalling that credit asset manager Sound Point Capital Management is looking to expand its platform

Ivy Hill resets 2014 mid market CLO and upsizes by $140 million
Ivy Hill Asset Management reset Ivy Hill MM IX-R via Natixis on Monday, upsizing the 2014 CLO by $139.8 million including $33 million of fresh equity capital

PennantPark prints mid market CLO with triple As at 170bp
PennantPark Investment Advisers on Friday priced its first middle market CLO of 2022

Monroe prints first reinvesting mid market CLO linked to Sofr
Monroe Capital has become the second middle market CLO issuer to print a new deal in 2022 by teaming up with Deutsche Bank on Wednesday to print Monroe Capital MML CLO XIII at $456.5 million

LP round up: two CLO funds win support as Cali pensions home in on private credit
Two investors revealed allocations to European and US CLO funds, private credit allocations increases and private credit consultant searches get underway

Monroe markets first reinvesting middle market CLO linked to Sofr
Monroe Capital has launched a new middle market CLO with Deutsche Bank, which is believed to be the first reinvesting mid market deal linked to Sofr

Panagram takes on 'structure advisor' role for mid market CLO as two deals price
Panagram Structured Asset Management has taken an advisor role for a BlackRock mid market CLO - one of two mid market deals Natixis arranged this week, with another for Nuveen Asset Management

Mid market CLO league tables: deal record breaks as Wells Fargo gains new issue lead
The mid market CLO space had a record-breaking month in November on three counts

Angelo Gordon keeps hold of mezz tranches with mid market CLO
Angelo Gordon has moved into middle market CLOs by printing its first deal backed by loans to middle market companies. The firm retained all junior and mezzanine liabilities in a deal that appears not to carry a public rating

Antares and Palmer Square give new life to legacy CLOs via resets
Antares Capital Management and Palmer Square Capital Management each reset a CLO on Tuesday, with the two deals worth a combined $964.8 million

Barings jostles cap stack with mid-market CLO reset
Barings has reset a middle market CLO it signed in 2017, increasing the overall size of the deal slightly with a shift in weighting between the single A minus and triple B minus pieces

LP round up: no Stoptober as investors allocate $5 billion to credit
US institutional investors allocated $5 billion to credit funds in October, with Oak Hill and Pimco among the biggest mandates    

CLO refi and reset volumes surge with $2.3 billion priced on Friday
CLO refi and reset volumes surged on Friday with $2.3 billion priced across the US market, according to market sources. Brigade Capital Management, MidOcean Credit Partners and New Mountain Capital reset regular-way CLOs, Blackstone Credit scored a regular CLO refi, Sculptor Capital Management refinanced a bond-heavy CLO, and Ivy Hill Asset Management reset a middle market CLO

Credit Suisse plans mid market CLO push as it prices PennantPark deal
Credit Suisse arranged its first CLO backed by middle market loans in almost four years on Friday, pairing with PennantPark to print the manager's latest new issue deal

Mid market CLO league tables: No change up top but KKR and Silver Point enter race
The mid market CLO space welcomed two new faces to its ranks last month as Silver Point Capital and KKR priced a new issue CLO each

Silver Point makes CLO debut with $400m middle market deal
Silver Point Capital has become the third manager to debut in US CLOs after printing its first CLO on Friday

SMBC Nikko builds on CLO momentum with mid market deal for Monroe
SMBC Nikko has picked up its third CLO credit this year

Credit Fundraising: Blue Owl and WhiteHorse gain from improving animal spirits
Fundraising perked up in July as managers raised $14.9 billion for credit funds - the third highest monthly amount this year

Mid market CLO league tables: stalwarts Golub and Natixis reign supreme again
It may have taken seven months, but the mid market CLO league tables have familiar faces at the top with Golub Capital and Natixis leading the way in manager and arranger issuance, respectively

Fund performance: Déjà vu as April leaders dominate
CLO funds stayed in the top flight for another month as they took over the top 10 credit hedge fund return table in May, when 87% of all funds listed made positive returns

Credit fundraising: managers take care of infrastructure with new partnerships
Credit managers were busy launching new partnerships to support growth in infrastructure and CLOs. There were 13 announcements in the month paving the way for upcoming funds, platforms, and joint ventures

Barings completes first middle market CLO since 2019
Barings has issued its first CLO backed by middle market loans since October 2019

Cerberus prints lesser-spotted CLO reissue
Cerberus Loan Management priced a rare CLO reissue on Wednesday in just the fourth deal of this flavour of transaction to print in 2021

Unusual double As jump tighter as BMO keeps it in-house again with CLO refi
BMO has refinanced a CLO for BMO that resulted in junior double As moving much tighter relative to senior double As