Ares snatches tightest cost-of-funding crown by slimmest of margins
Ares’ first new European deal of 2025 equalled year-to-date spread tights for every tranche  

Fortress and Polen print their first new CLOs of the year
Fortress and Polen Capital have priced their first BSL offerings of the year, both via BofA  

Silver Point prints new middle market deal in specialty credit series
The USD 474m private credit issue comes two months after the manager held a final close for Silver Point Specialty Credit Fund III  

Wellington prices impressively tight with latest new-issue CLO
The Boston-based asset manager is building a reputation for pricing tight deals despite its newness to the market    

Partners prices second reset of 2017-vintage Euro deal
The repricing is the manager’s first European deal of the year  

AB resets, upsizes a 2021-vintage US CLO
AllianceBernstein has added USD 7.80m to a US BSL CLO it reset via Santader  

US CLO roundup – US spreads fall to 'historically tight' level
The year kicked off with a bang for US CLOs with a major new tight and investor demand running red-hot

Three managers print new US BSL CLOs near market tights
New-issue US BSL CLOs deals from Rockford Tower, Golub and Octagon priced triple-A paper between four and eight basis points wide of the year-to-date tight

CIFC’s first new issue of year prices triple-As at 115
The top of the stack for the US BSL CLO was just 2bps outside the current market tight    

HPS's massive deal sets new low for private credit CLO spreads
HPS has priced its first new private credit CLO since its purchase by BlackRock, clearing a massive USD 1.25bn deal 

Bain’s second refi of 2025 prints triple-As at 98bps
Bain CLO's top of the stack has priced inside the year-to-date average for US BSL refis

Bain and CVC are marketing new European CLOs looking to price next week
Price talk is circulating for two new European CLO issues from Bain and CVC, both valued at around EUR 405m and arranged by Jefferies  

Euro CLO roundup – January spreads tighten in, with promise of more to come
With top-of-stack spread tights having already narrowed by six basis points from the end of last year, deal guidance indicates that February will see further tightening

Apollo and Churchill set new low for middle-market CLO spreads
New deals from Churchill and MidCap have triple-A coupon spreads inside the tight set late last year by Blackstone  

Signal, Capital Four add to European new-deal issuance
Both Signal Capital Partners and Capital Four priced their inaugural deals for 2025 in the form of European new issues  

Brigade scores its tightest cost of funds ever in new US BSL CLO
The manager secured its lowest overall cost of funding thus far with its first new US issue of 2025  

Oaktree reprices two US CLOs in two days
Oaktree priced a reset and refi at the end of last week as it kicked off its primary market issuance for 2025  

Investcorp refinances 2019-vintage US CLO
The refi of Jamestown CLO XIV is the first primary market activity by the manager since November  

HPS and Palmer Square CLO AAAs hit 125 in Europe
The two new-issue deals that priced last week were among the tightest to price since the start of the year

Acer Tree sees runway for CLO issuance with Ymer deal
The firm’s CIO told Creditflux the deal marks a commitment to support a stream of CLOs over the next couple of years

Spire hits new 2025 European low cutting AAA spreads to 122
The manager’s first CLO issue of 2025 trimmed three basis points off the previous market tight  

High yield deals pricing far inside of IPTs as January demand drives tightening
High yield bond deals are tightening faster and further from initial price thoughts (IPTs) in 2025, compared to the last quarter of 2024 

CIFC refinances philanthropic deal from 2022
CIFC Funding 2022-II was the second deal issued under the “CLO Initiative for Change”    

Trimaran prices first deal for 2025 with half-billion-dollar new issue
The deal is the first print from Trimaran Advisors since November

Price talk circulates for European PGIM reset in marketing
PGIM is looking to reprice a European 2017-vintage deal next week with a EUR 27.7m equity injection