CVC reissues structured financing facility as a full European CLO
The beginning of February saw something unusual in the CLO market – a reissue of the CVC Cordatus Opportunity Loan Fund, undertaken by CVC Credit Partners.

Ares joins the 150 club with latest US BSL CLO
Market heavyweight Ares priced its first deal for 2024 with a notably tight half-billion-dollar offering arranged by JP Morgan, market sources told Creditflux

Latest refi prices for 2020 Trinitas CLO
Trinitas Capital Management has followed Blackstone and Marathon in taking advantage of favourable market conditions to complete a partial reset of its 2020-vintage Trinitas CLO XII

Veteran JP Morgan credit trader leaves for buy-side
JP Morgan's global head of macro credit trading has left to move to a London-based hedge fund 

Empower continues to grow with pricing of fourth US CLO
Empower Capital Management last week priced its fourth CLO overall and third of 2023, with a USD 405.29m broadly syndicated deal arranged by JP Morgan

Centerbridge returns to the market with new US BSL CLO
After a somewhat quiet year on the primary market, alternative investment manager Centerbridge Partners this week priced its first CLO since February, in a USD 475.35m transaction

JP Morgan makes it eleven for Palmer Square
Hot on the heels of its fourth European CLO pricing earlier in October, Palmer Square priced its fifth European CLO of 2023 on the last day of the month

Allstate comes out swinging with tightest US CLO print this year
After sitting out the first three quarters of 2023, Allstate Investments reentered the US CLO market with a bang last week

Debut manager joins European CLO market
The European CLO community grew a little bigger yesterday with the pricing of a deal from the first new entrant to the market since May

Oaktree prints first European CLO this year
JP Morgan has priced Oaktree Capital Management's first European CLO this year

Antares prints first CLO backed by broadly syndicated loans
Antares Capital Management priced its debut CLO backed by broadly syndicated loans on Thursday

GoldenTree and Nuveen reset CLOs with senior notes yielding 170bp
GoldenTree Loan Management and Nuveen Asset Management each reset a July 2022-vintage CLO on Friday with both deals placing their first-pay debt tranches at Sofr plus 170 basis points

Northwestern surpasses $1 billion CLOs issued
Northwestern Mutual surpassed $1 billion CLOs issued on Tuesday after printing its third transaction named 720 East CLO 2023-II

CLO round-up: blinded by the tights
Secondary CLO spreads continued to grind tighter this week and, at last, the primary market began to follow in both the US and Europe

Triple As tighten to 170bp as Ares resets 2022 CLO
Ares Management teamed up with JP Morgan on Monday to reset its 2022 deal named Ares CLO LXVI, with the triple A notes matching the tightest print of the year

CLO round-up: secondary market rallies amid increased primary supply
CLO primary activity increased across the board this week, with US new issue supply amounting to $1.8 billion - up 48.7% on the week prior - while in Europe supply increased 208.8% to €1.2 billion

Trinitas prints its second US CLO of the year
Trinitas Capital Management has priced its second new US CLO of 2023

Polus prints first new CLO following rebranding
Polus Capital Management has priced its first CLO since rebranding from Cairn Capital last year

2023's mid market CLO volumes pass $13 billion as Ivy Hill prices
Ivy Hill Asset Management priced its second middle market CLO of the year on Wednesday named Ivy Hill Middle Market Credit Fund XXI

Blackstone hires sell-side CLO trading head
Blackstone Credit is beefing up its team with a new hire to the liquid credit strategies group. 

European holiday ends as Palmer Square prices CLO
The European CLO market’s month-long early summer holiday finished today as JP Morgan priced a new static CLO for Palmer Square.

CSAM breaks the mould with first broadly syndicated reset of the year
Madison Park Funding LXII priced on Tuesday, according to market sources, and is the first broadly-syndicated CLO to reset in 2023.

AGL on a roll as it prices second deal in a month
AGL Credit Management continued its dramatic growth in the CLO market this week, pricing AGL CLO 26 with one of the tightest prints seen this year.

Japanese investors and ETFs bid up CLO triple As as US banks cool off
CLOs saw healthy demand from Japan in the first three months of the year, with Japan Post Bank and Norinchukin each increasing investments in the asset class. Japan Post’s CLO holdings stood at JPY2.3 trillion ($17.51 billion) as of 31 March, an increase of $550 million in the quarter and up 32.7% on the year prior. Nochu added $110 million to JPY6.4 trillion ($48.2 billion), or 13% of the bank’s investment portfolio.

DoubleLine breaks US CLO issuance deadlock with first deal in 18 months
DoubleLine Capital priced its first new CLO in over 18 months on Friday, breaking the issuance deadlock that bound the US market this last week