Global CLO b-wic round-up: control equity hits the market as secondary market picks up
The CLO secondary market in both Europe and the US brought healthy volumes last week. There was €174.9 million listed in the European CLO secondary market, while the US returned a with just over $600 million in CLO b-wics. 

Alcentra scores tightest 1.5-year US CLO spread after 2016 deal refinancing
Alcentra has refinanced a single tranche of its 2016 CLO named Shackleton 2016-IX

Benefit Street slashes 32bp from 2016 CLO's funding costs via refi
Benefit Street Partners teamed up with Citi on Friday to refinance Benefit Street Partners CLO X, according to market sources, slashing 31.96 basis points from the deal’s weighted funding costs

Carlyle teams up with Morgan Stanley to reset post-reinvestment CLO
Carlyle Group priced its ninth CLO transaction of the year on Friday, becoming the second manager after PGIM to achieve the feat

Junior triple A tranches return as GSO prices US CLO
GSO Capital Partners has tapped the CLO market once again with another new issue transaction via Barclays

KKR looks to price third new issue US CLO of 2019 amid tighter market
KKR Credit is targeting its third new CLO of the year. KKR CLO 26 is being marketed by Credit Suisse and is set to price at tighter levels than the other KKR CLOs that have been issued this year, judging by price talk

Mid market CLO league tables: Natixis and Golub reign supreme
June brought just three middle market CLOs pricings with two new issues and one refinancing that totalled $1.6 billion, bringing the year-to-date volume to $9.9 billion. Natixis is the leading arranger, having a hand in 38% of deals

Global CLO league tables at a glance - June 2019 YTD
Global CLO league tables at a glance - June 2019 YTD

US CLO league tables: Octagon extends lead as many managers hit starting blocks in June
CLO volumes recovered slightly in the second quarter, with $43.31 billion of primary activity – a 19.97% increase from the $36.1 billion produced in Q1

CLO pipeline: managers return in force after varying time-outs
CLO managers in all markets are taking the view that the time is ripe to print their latest deals. There are 30 transactions in the US CLO pipeline this week with a further four in the middle market space and Europe

Pimco plans CLO management return after 12-year absence
Pimco is lining up a return to CLO management, over a decade after its last deal. The Newport Beach-based firm has been absent from the primary market since pricing Portola in November 2007.

Fresh out the box: manager readies debut CLO via JP Morgan
A US fund manager is launching its debut CLO - and there's not much in the way of triple A debt 

PGIM goes all in as it refis 2016 CLO for second time
Having refinanced the junior debt in a US CLO last year, PGIM has refied the entire capital stack of its 2016-vintage CLO

Global CLO b-wic round-up: secondary volumes make up for slump in primary
June saw the highest volume of US CLO b-wics this year with over $3.8 billion of US CLOs on the auction block, according to CLO-i. 

Onex produces its second US CLO of the year as spreads tighten
Onex Credit Partners has priced its CLO triple As at 133 basis points as part of a US new issue transaction which was executed on Friday.

US CLO round-up: something old, something new, GSAM returns with newcomers too
GSAM is back pricing CLOs after 12 years away, while relative newcomers make swifter re-entries in the CLO market 

AA Battery: GSAM powers back into the CLO market and merges senior tranches
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, itself a large buyer of senior CLO paper, has priced its first 2.0 CLO, but with the absence of a regular triple A-rated tranche

Axa IM prices first CLO refinancing since 2017
Axa Investment Managers refinanced its 2016 CLO, Allegro CLO IV yesterday via Goldman Sachs. The $440 million transaction knocks 22 basis points off of CLO’s funding cost from 200.1bp to 178.1bp.

Alcentra prices first new issue US CLO for 12 months in short-dated deal
Alcentra has priced its first new issue US CLO in 12 months, teaming up with Citi to issue Shackleton 2019-XIV

CLO pipeline: Barclays and Goldman branch out to mid market
The US CLO pipeline has been full in recent weeks and this continues, with 18 new issue CLOs and a further nine refinancings appearing this week.

Symphony reworks 2012 vintage CLO via Barclays
Symphony Asset Management on Friday priced a $617.85 million reset of a CLO that it first brought to market in 2012

Octagon prices triple As at 130bp in new US CLO
Octagon Credit Investors priced its fourth new issue US CLO of 2019 yesterday, making it the firm’s seventh transaction this year with two resets and a reissue.

Rockford Tower and JP Morgan team to price new CLO
Rockford Tower Capital Management priced its second new issue US CLO this year, Rockford Tower CLO 2019-2, according to market sources

CLO pipeline: newcomer emerges with unusual transaction
The US CLO pipeline continues to fill up, with 20 new issue US CLOs featured and another 17 deals set to be refinanced.