US CLO league tables: AGL and JP Morgan topple leaders in new issuance, but Apollo and Citi maintain overall dominance
Only 13 months after setting up shop, AGL Credit Management vaulted itself to the top of the US CLO new issue league tables in 2020

Global 2020 CLO league tables
Global 2020 CLO league tables 

FS Investment scored late entry in 2020 with debut BSL CLO
The world welcomed a new CLO manager in the final days of 2020 as FS Investments teamed up with JP Morgan to bring its first solo transaction to market

US CLO league tables: new issue rankings go to wire as post-pricing upsizes pop up
The new issue US CLO rankings are tightly contested with JP Morgan leading Citi by just $641 million with one month left of the year. Even in December's typically slower weeks this is a closeable gap 

Global CLO league tables - November 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - November 2020 YTD

PGIM reunites with JP Morgan for first US new CLO partnership in six years
PGIM has reunited with JP Morgan for the pair's first new issue US CLO in partnership in almost six years

CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
Over $3.5 billion of global CLO issuance priced last week and managers in all three CLO markets are taking advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure after three major covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs and increased confidence since the US presidential election

Correction: JP Morgan shifts bulk of CLO portfolio to held to maturity
JP Morgan has shifted two thirds of its CLO portfolio to the 'held to maturity' part of its balance sheet, posting $31.15 billion worth of CLO holdings on 30 September of which $20.95 billion were held to maturity

US CLO league tables: JP Morgan nips ahead of Citi as debutants pour in
JP Morgan has surged to the top of new issuance rankings following a busy September and October in which the bank was lead arranger for 10 new CLOs totalling $3.9 billion

Global CLO league tables - October 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - October 2020 YTD

Single B notes return as Palmer Square prints third reinvesting US CLO of 2020
Palmer Square Capital Management priced its ninth new issue CLO of 2020 on Friday, teaming with JP Morgan on the $401.1 million Palmer Square CLO 2020-3

CLO pipeline: deal flow slows ahead of US election
Only two forthcoming new issue US CLOs have been added to the pipeline this week as the election slowdown hits credit markets. This comes after eight new issue US CLOs and five European CLOs have priced over the last ten days during the pre-election rush

Carlyle secures 132bp triple As on second post-covid CLO
Carlyle Group printed its second CLO post-covid on Friday, teaming up with JP Morgan on the new $359.8 million deal named Carlyle US CLO 2020-2

CLO Census results: Citi comes out top but several banks make big leaps
Citi has been voted top in five out of the eight primary CLO categories as part of the 2020 Creditflux CLO Census, but BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Natixis are among the banks that have made huge strides compared to last year

Ares prices third new US CLO since April
Ares Management printed its third US CLO post-covid yesterday, bringing its new issue volume amid the pandemic to $1.39 billion

Gulf Stream employs 'additional issuance' option to complete novel CLO upsize
Gulf Stream Asset Management has upsized the entire capital stack in Gulf Stream Meridian 2 five months after the deal was closed, in what is thought to be first 2.0 CLO to opt for an upsize after closing date

Marathon prices first new issue CLO of 2020
Marathon Asset Management has completed its first new issue CLO of 2020

Faith in structures has been rewarded
CLOs have been resilient against covid-19 fallout, said speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium last month. But there’s always room to improve and 3.0 deals may add ESG and bullet tranches

Sixth Street prices first CLO following split from TPG
Sixth Street Partners has priced its first CLO under its own moniker. Named Sixth Street CLO XVI, it follows Sixth Street's split from private equity parent firm TPG in May this year

Four US CLO refis highlight diverging manager strategies
Four US CLO managers - Ares Management, GSO Capital Partners, Marathon Asset Management and Voya Alternative Asset Management - have each refinanced fixed-rate CLO tranches, with the four deals totalling $69 million in paper. But new strategies are beginning to emerge

Oak Hill breaks post-covid CLO record with 125bp triple A print
US CLO triple As reached new tights last week after Oak Hill Advisors' latest new issue placed its first-pays at just 125 basis points over Libor

Golub takes CLO series to 50 with first BSL deal of 2020
Golub Capital Partners reached a new milestone last week after pricing the 50th deal in its series of US CLOs

CLO pipeline: managers prepare to end quarter with a bang
CLO issuance is showing no signs of slowing down as spreads continue to grind tighter and election day draws ever closer

Aegon matches BlackRock for tightest CLO triple A print since March
Aegon USA Investment Management has priced one of the tightest CLO structures post-covid via JP Morgan, with a triple A note printing at 127 basis points over Libor

CLO pipeline: managers large, small and new ready to price in post-Labour Day surge
US managers are preparing a wave of new issue CLOs in the coming days, as the usual post-Labour Day pricing surge comes to fruition even in this most unusual of years