Price talk tightens for forthcoming MidOcean CLO
Price talk for MidOcean Credit's forthcoming CLO deal has tightened since premarketing information was previously reported by Creditflux

Los Angeles manager hires JP Morgan for debut CLO
Specialist energy asset manager Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors is set to launch its debut US CLO this year having hired a senior portfolio manager and raised a risk retention vehicle

Fitch rating outlook: CLO spread compression to continue in 2018
Spreads on new broadly syndicated loan (BSL) CLO notes rated AAA down to BBB will be further squeezed in 2018

The biggest credit stories in 2017
CLO ramp-up risk, new risk retention proposals and new CLO joint ventures were in the headlines last year. Here, Creditflux reveals the most read stories of 2017

Axa IM concludes 2017 by refinancing 2015 US CLO
Axa investment Managers concluded its CLO business in 2017 by pricing a $350 million refi

GreensLedge ends 2017 by pricing two CLOs
The bank priced 18 deals last year, totalling $9.67 billion, according to CLO-i data

LCM prices its third 2017 CLO to keep triple A spreads stay below 110bp
The manager hired Morgan Stanley to arrange its fifth transaction in the CLO market this year

Carlyle prices new US CLO with second lowest funding costs of 2017
The manager teamed up with Citi to price the $509.95 million transaction

CLO manager looks to raise up to $2 billion to invest in CLOs globally
A US CLO manager is planning to invest in CLO tranches for the first time. It is understood that the firm is putting together a structured credit fund that will also have the ability to invest in index tranches

MidOcean to set sail into 2018 with its eighth new issue CLO
MidOcean Credit Partner plans to begin the new year by pricing its eighth new issue CLO

Voya targets triple As and triple Bs in US CLO refi
Voya Alternative Asset Management has refinanced two tranches of one of its CLOs, cutting the cost of debt by 50 basis points

Sound Point prices new issue CLO to bring its 2017 volumes close to $4 billion
The manager priced an $812.93 million CLO yesterday, which is its fourth new issue transaction this year  

US manager prices its second CLO transaction of the year
The manager has priced its second CLO transaction of 2017, teaming up with Mizuho Securities to price a $471.5 million refi

Ares prices new issue US CLO with funding costs of just 1.4%
Ares has priced its 14th CLO transaction of the year, known as Ares XLVI

BlueMountain seals 2017's tightest new issue CLO triple A print by fractions
BlueMountain's new US CLO has the tightest triple A print by just 0.13 basis points

Two US managers ride short-term CLO reset wave
Two US managers have priced short-dated CLO resets, joining the ranks of managers pricing short term CLO paper with low funding costs

California CLO manager markets its fifth new CLO of the year
A west coast manager is planning its fifth new CLO of the year and has hired Morgan Stanley to arrange the deal

BNP Paribas bolsters its CLO origination team in New York
A CLO specialist has left the buy side in order to join BNP Paribas' credit structuring group in New York

Fresh-faced US CLO manager doubles AUM with latest new issue
A new CLO manager teamed up with RBC to price a new issue CLO on Friday, bringing its AUM up to $897.65 million

Apex reworks 2015 CLO in fresh $434 million transaction
The credit management affiliate of Jefferies priced its fourth US CLO transaction of the year on Friday

They said it: long faces on flow traders
Citi’s Jim Hughes tells the Creditflux CLO Investor Summit about how difficult life is for flow credit traders

Shrinking spread cushions prove hard for CLOs
 Falling loan spreads are placing ever tighter constraints on CLO managers’ choice of investments just as the loan supply itself is declining

Insurance reallocation tightens CLO mezzanine
Buying by US insurance firms has been the biggest factor driving double A to triple B CLO spreads tighter this year, according to Citi CLO head Jim Hughes

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CIFC resets 2012 CLO with triple As pricing at 80bp
CIFC made its 13th CLO transaction in the US CLO market this year yesterday, resetting CIFC Funding 2012-II, according to market sources