142bp emerges as triple A benchmark spread as Blackstone prices new CLO
Blackstone Credit priced a new CLO on Wednesday, placing the senior triple A notes at Sofr plus 142 basis points

Bain goes subject on new US CLO with senior triple As at 142bp
Bain Capital Credit is close to pricing its third US CLO of 2022

Redding Ridge prints first new US CLO in six months
Redding Ridge Asset Management on Wednesday priced its first new US CLO in six months

CLO managers price with short, medium and long reinvestments as pricing widens
Ares Management, Golub Capital Partners and Partners Group each priced a new CLO on Friday, with each manager taking a different approach to the various duration structures that have arisen amid the current market volatility

Carlyle brings first new US CLO of 2022
Carlyle has priced a $407 million US CLO named 2022-1, its first new deal and second overall CLO transaction of 2022

Steele Creek fashions first new CLO in nearly three years
Steele Creek Investment Management staged a longawaited CLO comeback on Monday by printing its first new issue since July 2019

Zais CLO reset prices wide of market, but strong portfolio boosts junior tranches
Zais Group has followed up its new issue CLO last month by resetting a 2020 CLO, sources say. Just like Zais CLO 17, the reset Zais 16 was arranged by Jefferies, and again priced substantially wide of market averages. However, the junior notes priced in line with, and at times tighter than, Zais 17 – perhaps reflecting the strong positioning of Zais 16’s portfolio.

JP Morgan prints CLOs for CarVal and Western
JP Morgan has issued new CLOs for CarVal CLO Management and Western Asset Management Company

Sixth Street new CLO scores fifth tightest funding costs in Q2
Sixth Street Partners priced its third new CLO of the year on Friday and scored the fifth tightest funding costs of the second quarter

Blackstone scores one of tightest ever 2.0 US CLO funding costs
Blackstone Credit has priced one of the tightest 2.0 CLOs ever with funding costs of just 141.61 basis points

Bain features triple B discount in third-tightest CLO post-covid
Bain Capital Credit priced its first CLO of 2021 on Monday, securing the third tightest funding costs for a five-year reinvestment deal post-covid in the process

US CLO triple As tighten reach 105bp as CVC registers lowest funding costs since March 2018
CVC Credit Partners brought the CLO market to new tights on Tuesday after pricing its triple A notes at just 105 basis points over Libor

BlackRock brings three-year US CLO triple As inside 100bp
BlackRock has priced a three-year reinvestment CLO via Morgan Stanley with the triple As yielding just 99 basis points over Libor

CLO pipeline: OFS to make comeback as 2020 absentees eye new issues
As liability spreads tighten day by day, the CLO pipeline is filling fast. 2020 absentees are joining the parade as four US managers and three European managers aim to return to the new issue market after taking a break of 12 months or longer

Global CLO b-wic round-up: Junior tranches rally amid heavy supply, including portfolio liquidation
The US CLO secondary market rally is showing no signs of slowing down after a week of over $1 billion worth of bonds was listed and well absorbed, according to market sources. The European market also had a roust week with over €300 million of paper up for grabs, although the market stayed generally flat with some tightening in double and single Bs

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

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.

Chicago-based manager returns to CLO primary with first new issue for 17 months
PPM Loan Management has staged a CLO primary comeback by printing its first new issue deal in just over 17 months

US CLO league tables: refis return as Apollo and Citi maintain leads
US CLO monthly issuance rose above $8 billion in July for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc across the globe

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

OC health check: slowing of downgrades offers some reprieve for CLOs stuck in breach
89 deals reported overcollateralisation breaches last week, but only seven of these deals were breaching any OC test for the first time, according to the latest reports available on CLO-i

Beneath the triple C: downgrade rate slows as $8 billion of CLO loans tumble
May offered some respite to CLO portfolios as corporate downgrades to triple C were reduced heavily - affecting just $6.67 billion of US CLO paper and €1.09 billion of European CLO portfolios

Global CLO b-wic round-up: double Bs lead the way as rally endures and drags equity with it
The CLO secondary market continued its hard rally last week as prices rose across the whole asset class with double B rated CLO bonds leading the charge tighter

OC health check: some CLOs cure failures, but quarter of US deals still in breach
117 deals failed over-collateralisation tests in the last week, although only 46 of these were deals reporting breaches for the first time, according to the latest reports available on CLO-i

Private credit wins investor as Maryland pension introduces 5% allocation
Howard County Retirement has introduced a new bucket to the private credit asset class, reducing its core bond and hedge fund exposure to facilitate this measure, according to board documents seen by Creditflux