Beneath the triple C: Winter is coming for CLOs as downgrades outstrip upgrades
Both US and European issuers have felt downward pressure from the rating agencies as we head towards the end of the year, with downgrades to triple C now firmly outpacing upgrades out of it.

Cerberus opts for rare three-year non-call on new CLO
Cerberus Business Finance priced a new middle market CLO on Wednesday, with investors agreeing to a rare call-lock duration of three years

Elmwood becomes sixth manager to print two new US CLOs in 2022
Elmwood Asset Management priced its second new CLO of the year on Friday, bringing its 2022 new issue volumes over $1.1 billion

TCW hits agreement target with sequence of Jefferies-arranged CLOs
TCW Group has priced the fourth new CLO resulting from its strategic partnership with Jefferies, which was arranger on the deal 

Three new deals bring weekly US CLO reset volume to $3.9 billion
Three US CLO resets priced on Thursday, bringing weekly reset volume for the week to $3.9 billion across eight transactions

Redding Ridge upsizes 2019 CLO by $321 million
Redding Ridge on Wednesday reset its 2019 CLO named RR 7 via Mizuho, greatly upsizing the transaction

Ares and Octagon bring weekly CLO reset volume over $2 billion in just two days
Ares Management and Octagon Credit Investors each reset a CLO on Tuesday, bringing weekly US CLO reset volume up to over $2 billion

Sound Point pairs with BofA on new US CLO
Sound Point Capital Management priced a US CLO on Friday 

Blackstone 2021 CLO volume tops $8.5 billion with 16th new issue
Blackstone Credit returned to the CLO primary market yet again on Friday to print its 16th new issue of 2021

Blackstone's 2021 new US CLO volume rises to $7.6 billion with static deal
Blackstone Credit's 2021 CLO new issue volume has risen to a huge $7.6 billion with the manager on Friday placing its 14th deal

Global CLO trading lab: quality and optionality shine as 2020 and 2019 mezz trades up
The primary and secondary CLO markets are moving in tandem with both markets drifting wider amid a wealth of supply

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

OC health check: CLOs end 2020 with fragile recovery
Only 109 CLOs breached an overcollateralisation test in December, falling from 121 in November. This in turn was down from the 147 CLOs that breached an OC test in October, but 33 cured their breaches in November and a further 11 cured all OC test failures in December

Five-year CLO triple As rally to 124bp with Sixth Street US deal
Five-year US CLO triple A spreads have reached 124 basis points after Goldman Sachs priced a $430 million long-reinvestment CLO for Sixth Street Partners on Friday.

MJX prints first reinvesting CLO of the year
MJX Asset Management has become the first CLO manager to print a reinvesting new issue transaction in 2021, teaming up with Jefferies as lead arranger and Bank of America as co-arranger on the $507.3 million deal, named Venture 41

OC health check: 41 CLOs heal their breaches
147 CLOs breached an over-collateralisation test in October, down from 183 in September. 41 CLOs that breached an OC test in September passed all OC tests in October, most of which had October payment dates

TCW completes first reset of 2020 CLO and adds double Bs
TCW has become the first manager to rework a 2020 vintage CLO after teaming with Jefferies to reset its April transaction named TCW CLO 2020-1

OC health check: CLOs wake up when September ends
September showed a slight but clear improvement in CLOs’ over-collateralisation test results as 182 CLOs breached an OC test during the reporting period, compared to 198 in August.

Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO mezz tranches widen amid macro concerns
Last week was busy for the primary European CLO market but not for secondary, with €1.35 billion of new issue European CLOs priced across four transactions but just €190 million of European CLO paper listed in b-wics

Morgan Stanley IM prices first new CLO following Assurant deal
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has issued its first CLO since buying the contracts to four deals previously managed by Assurant

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO triple As finally rally while European investors go ‘all in’
A huge supply of $731 million of US CLO triple A bonds pushed US CLO secondary volumes to just shy of $1.5 billion last week

OC health check: CLOs pay $1.3 billion on senior tranches as payment dates come due
Senior debt holders received $1.3 billion of principal from CLOs that breached an overcollateralisation test in July, a month in which the majority of scheduled payment dates fell. Of those deals suffering an OC breach, 190 were due to make a payment to noteholders and 57% were within reinvestment. 

OC health check: breaches start to take toll on July payment dates
37 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation test failure last week, but this was a falling percentage of those publishing trustee reports and none were fresh breaches

Beneath the triple C: downgrades hold steady as Travelport loses its luggage
For the second month in a row downgrades to triple C steadied, with just under $9 billion of CLO loans falling to this rating across 34 corporate borrowers

OC health check: CLOs heal up with no new breaches among US BSL deals
53 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation (OC) test breach last week, but only two CLOs breached an OC test for the first time, neither of which were US broadly syndicated loan CLOs