CLOs to maintain strong performance, offer attractive carry opportunities – Goldman Sachs
The asset class offers an appealing investment given underlying fundamentals and narrowing IG spreads, according to an investment outlook briefing from the firm this week

Carlyle trims 58bps off AAAs with 2023-vintage reset
The reworked US BSL CLO reduced its cost of funding across the stack by over 85bps

Goldman launches its ninth mezzanine private debt fund
The latest fund follows the USD 15.2bn West Street Mezzanine Partners VIII that closed in 2023

First Eagle becomes latest manager to reset 2023-vintage US CLO
The reset trimmed 37bps off the triple As

Fortress shifts to short-dated timetable with latest US reset
Unusually, the USD 364m BSL repricing maintained the same reinvestment expiration date

Cleary hires Goldman Sachs MD for capital solutions, private credit
The law firm welcomed back the partner to focus on private credit originations

AXA IM issues first CLO since announcement of US tariff regime
The manager's second new US BSL deal of the year has emerged as a USD 508m offering

M&A rebound will come – Goldman Sachs’ Vivek Bantwal
Goldman Sachs' co-head of global private credit chats with Lisa Lee on the Credit Exchange podcast

Empower resets 2023 CLO with its second deal in three weeks
The US manager reworked its second-ever deal on Thursday, six months after resetting its debut CLO

Arini makes US debut with smaller-than-average new manager premium
Arini US CLO I priced its triple As at SOFR plus 150bps, a smaller differential to tier-1s than standard for a debut manager

Leveraged loan, HY defaults to pick up as tariff pause adds more uncertainty - Goldman
The bank expects macro challenges to continue despite the tariff pause  

Goldman's private credit venture with Saudia Arabia's PIF shows Middle East growth
ANALYSIS: The last few years has seen private credit managers court large Middle Eastern LPs or seek to start investing in the region

Hamza Lemssouguer’s Arini aims to become a new US CLO manager
EXCLUSIVE: The European hedge fund has hired Goldman Sachs as arranger for its first US deal 

Goldman’s head of private credit’s Olafson jumps to BDT & MSD
BDT & MSD Partners has hired Greg Olafson, formerly global head of private credit at Goldman Sachs’ asset management arm

Goldman Sachs launches capital solutions group for banking clients
Goldman Sachs is combining its financing, origination, structuring and risk management solution activities in global banking, and also named Vivek Bantwal as co-head of global private credit

TCW resets 2021 BSL CLO
TCW Asset Management last week reset a US BSL deal called TCW CLO 2021-1, with Goldman Sachs acting as the arranger

Blackstone prices new US issue amidst market frenzy
Blackstone has priced its latest new issue US BSL CLO, a USD 557.625m deal arranged by Goldman Sachs

Antares plans unit buying private credit loans from other lenders
Antares eyes buidling out a private credit secondary business to buy loans from other lenders

JetBlue's new loan struggles to take flight
CLO managers had less appetite for JetBlue’s new loan after the airline was downgraded to B3 and B- 

AIMCO scores tightest WACD for a reset in 2024 … again
Allstate Investment Management (AIMCO) priced a reset of a 2022 vintage BSL CLO on Friday with the tightest WACD in a reset this year

Goldman looks to price new US CLO for MidOcean today
According to market sources MidOcean Partners is set to price a new US BSL deal later today via Goldman Sachs

Sycamore resets and upsizes 2023 vintage CLO
Sycamore Tree CLO Advisors has reset and upsized Sycamore Tree CLO 2023-3, adding USD 6m in equity as well as USD 127m of debt

MidOcean cuts WACC by 90bps in 2023 reset
MidOcean Credit last week reset its 2023 vintage MidOcean Credit CLO XII in a deal that brought funding costs in by almost 90bps

Goldman Sachs keeps up the pace with new Five Arrows CLO
Goldman Sachs has continued its prolific start to 2024, arranging its third deal of the year for Five Arrows, the USD 456.05m Ocean Trails CLO XV

New Mountain keeps it short for latest BSL CLO
New Mountain Credit has bucked the new year’s trend for five year reinvestment periods, with its USD 407m new issue this week marking 2024’s first short-dated new US BSL print