CLO demand to drive loan outperformance over bonds: BNP Paribas
The buying power of CLOs and funds could mean leveraged loans rally further and outpace high yield bonds, says BNP Paribas' credit research team

CLOs bask in 'golden period' as industry approaches $1 trillion market cap
The economic rebound following the reopening US economy has created a 'golden period' for the CLO market, market participants say

Global CLO trading lab: Octagon CLO comes out top in CLO double B spike
Double B-rated bonds made up 40% of the European and US CLO secondary markets last week. $222 million of US CLO double B bonds were on sale and a further €105 million of European CLO double B items were listed

Market absorbs three CLO refinancings worth $1 billion
Apex Credit Partners, Barings and Voya Investment Management have each refinanced a CLO, with the three deals totalling $1.02 billion

Beneath the triple C: CLOs benefit as upgrades make for lighter triple C buckets
For the first time since the sell off in March last year, downgrades to triple C have come to a near-standstill

Five refis add $1.43 billion to CLO market
The CLO primary market has absorbed another $1.43 billion of refinancing paper as five managers printed cost-cutting transactions

Ares brings CLO's leverage down to less than five turns in $1 billion-plus reset
Ares Management has upsized its second largest CLO in a reset, bringing the deal to a par value of $1.19 billion - the seventh biggest CLO backed by broadly syndicated loans in the market

Original AMR CLO from 2017 undergoes digital refi
Crescent Capital Group has refinanced two tranches of a CLO via the applicable margin reset process

AGL cuts debt cost by 123bp in first reset of post-covid CLO
AGL Credit Management has become the first CLO manager to reset a post-covid CLO outside of static-to-static transactions

DWS wraps fourth infra CLO
DWS Group has issued its fourth CLO backed by infrastructure credits

High-spread US CLO manager issues triple As at 113.5bp
A large US CLO manager has issued its second US CLO of the year in a deal that suggests that CLO spreads could be moving wider

Anchorage and Credit Suisse unite for first regular-way US CLO as partnership
Anchorage Capital Group has teamed up for the first time on a regular-way US CLO with Credit Suisse

US banks embrace CLOs again to drive spread compression
The three big US bank-buyers of senior CLO tranches — Citi, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo — all returned to the mar-ket as investors in January after sitting out for much of 2020

TCW CLO tranches digitally refinanced for second time
TCW CLO 2019-1 AMR was digitally refinanced for the second time today following the third successfully cleared applicable margin reset auction

Golub upsizes 2019 CLO with five-year reset
Golub Capital Partners has teamed up with Bank of America to reset its 2019 vintage CLO named Golub 41(B)-R for an extra five years of reinvestment

Seix CLO passes AMR refi test at second auction
Seix Advisors successfully executed a digital refinancing of its 2019 vintage CLO named Mountain View XIV on Thursday via the applicable margin reset (AMR) process

PennantPark wraps up 2020 with second mid market CLO via GreensLedge and Capital One
New York-based direct lender PennantPark Investment Advisers priced its second CLO in late December, teaming up once more with GreensLedge and Capital One to issue the $300.7 million deal

Fortress refis two tranches and amends another from 2018 bond-flex CLO
Fortress Investment Group has teamed up with GreensLedge and Natixis to cut the funding costs of three tranches of its 2018-vintage bond-flex CLO named FDF IV,

US CLO round-up: 23 managers wait in the wings after avoiding pre-election rush
CLO managers rushed to the primary market last week as they sought to lock in financing before the US presidential elections. This resulted in one of the busiest weeks in the primary market with 10 new issues

[update] Beneath the triple C: theme parks take portfolios on downward ride
Seven corporate debt issuers were downgraded to triple C or below in September by Moody’s or Standard and Poor’s – hurting $2.16 billion of US CLO loans and €1.16 billion of European CLO portfolio. The pace of CLO loan downgrades to triple C has slowed steadily since the peak in April

US CLO round-up: New Mountain gives a peek at better times
CLO primary issuance has produced healthy volume over the last few weeks with new issue paper totalling $7.9 billion since 21 September.

CLO rally keeps primary market flowing for most prolific issuers
The rally in CLO liabilities in September has given fresh impetus to the primary CLO market, which has benefitted from almost six months of favourable market dynamics

Octagon reaches milestone with CLO number 50
Octagon Credit Investors reached a milestone yesterday as it priced the 50th deal in its series of CLOs

Global CLO round-up: fresh start for five year deals as market reopens
The CLO market is still producing deals at a good pace, with $2.6 billion of global issuance last week. Four new issue deals priced in the US with Intermediate Capital Group and NYL Investors pricing their first transactions of the year while CVC Credit Partners made it two and Barings three in 2020