CLO pipeline: newcomers look to impress at debutante ball
The pace of CLO issuance accelerates with each passing week, with debutantes lining up to join more prolific managers as Europe builds momentum and the US floodgates open 

New CLO manager Fort Washington markets debut transaction
Fort Washington Investment Advisors is marketing its first ever CLO, named Fort Washington CLO 2019-1

Trinitas refinances 2017 CLO without renewing its call-lock
Trinitas Capital Management on Friday refinanced two tranches of its 2017 deal Trinitas CLO VI, according to market sources

Park Avenue prices two CLOs in same year for first time
Park Avenue Institutional Advisers yesterday priced its second CLO of 2019, marking the first time the manager has priced two new issues in one year since establishing its platform in 2016

Fort Washington joins growing list of prospective new CLO managers
Fort Washington Investment Advisors is looking to set up a CLO management business, Creditflux has learned

Revived CLO manager Gulf Stream begins warehousing as its team count hits 10
The reborn Gulf Stream Asset Management, led by CLO veteran Mark Mahoney, has begun warehousing its comeback CLO after making a couple of hires

AGL pre-markets debut US CLO
AGL Credit Management is getting its US CLO issuance programme underway less than six months after being formed

Pretium returns with first CLO of the year amid personnel changes
Pretium Credit Management yesterday returned to the CLO primary market with its first transaction of 2019

US CLO league tables: JP Morgan narrows gap to Citi in new issues to $50 million
July saw $14.9 billion of issuance in the US CLO space with $9.4 billion of that in new issue CLOs. One of the transactions brought to the market was Whitebox Capital Management’s debut CLO, Whitebox I.

Nochu's CLO holdings up 8% in Q2 while JP Morgan buys even faster
Norinchukin Bank’s CLO portfolio grew another 8% in the second quarter to JPY 8 trillion ($74.12 billion) by 30 June, according to the bank’s latest quarterly report which was released today

Zais prices new CLO with record five classes of fixed-rate debt
Zais Group has priced a new issue CLO via JP Morgan that issues five classes of debt paying fixed rates of interest

Whitebox debuts with $401 million CLO
Whitebox Advisors yesterday became the seventh debut US CLO manager of 2019, according to market sources

Shenkman affiliate prices first new issue CLO after 12-month hiatus
Romark Credit Advisors, the Shenkman Capital Management affiliate formed for risk retention compliance, has priced the third CLO under its own moniker named Romark CLO III

US CLO league tables: Octagon extends lead as many managers hit starting blocks in June
CLO volumes recovered slightly in the second quarter, with $43.31 billion of primary activity – a 19.97% increase from the $36.1 billion produced in Q1

They said it: "I saw a CLO OM which ran 484 pages"
At Creditflux’s Credit Dimensions event, JP Morgan’s Zaheen Mir argues that CSOs are simpler to understand than CLOs

Past returns: Blocking flexibility of CLO managers
Ten years ago, we reported in Creditflux that JP Morgan had mounted a campaign to stop CLOs changing their trading guidelines. The bank’s treasury desk was and is among the biggest buyers of senior CLO tranches and it convinced other senior investors to block a change that would give CLO managers greater flexibility.

Fresh out the box: manager readies debut CLO via JP Morgan
A US fund manager is launching its debut CLO - and there's not much in the way of triple A debt 

CarVal and JP Morgan team up for third new CLO in just over a year
CarVal CLO management priced its third new issue US CLO in 13 months yesterday, according to market sources. 

CLO pipeline: Barclays and Goldman branch out to mid market
The US CLO pipeline has been full in recent weeks and this continues, with 18 new issue CLOs and a further nine refinancings appearing this week.

Rockford Tower and JP Morgan team to price new CLO
Rockford Tower Capital Management priced its second new issue US CLO this year, Rockford Tower CLO 2019-2, according to market sources

CLO issuance faces threat amid loan definition dispute
The clash over Millennium Laboratories’ bankruptcy could have ramifications for the CLO market, and it all hinges on the philosophical question: what is a loan?

Arrival of five-year bespokes draws in CLO investors
Synthetic bespoke tranches are undergoing a major shift, with dealers projecting five-year business to supersede previously dominant shorter tenors by the end of 2019.

US CLO league tables: Octagon and Citi lead the way
April was the busiest month yet in the US CLO market this year with $16.42 billion in transactions, beating February by around $500 million. 

Birch Grove becomes 2019's third debut manager
Birch Grove Capital yesterday became 2019’s third debut CLO manager, according to market sources

CLO pipeline: refinancings to make a comeback
CLO refinancings look set to continue their recent surge in the US CLO market, with another five refinancings and two resets appearing in the pipeline.