Flexible CLOs grow in popularity as two managers eye triple C-heavy deals
Two credit managers - Anchorage Capital Group and Gateway Credit Partners - are in the market with their inaugural CLOs featuring high allowance for triple C assets

Norinchukin's CLO portfolio decreases for first time in years
Japanese CLO heavyweight Norinchukin posted its financial statements yesterday, where it reported a 1.42% drop from its statements at the end of the second quarter

SME CLOs arrive in Europe as Be-Spoke prices Spanish loan securitisation
Middle market CLOs have arrived in Europe after Be-Spoke Capital priced the continent’s first post-crisis SME loan securitisation

US CLO league tables: Octagon retakes US lead, but CSAM still on top globally
Octagon Credit Investors priced Octagon 45 via Goldman Sachs to overtake CSAM by just $33.3 million in overall US issuance, but CSAM still leads the way in new US CLO and global CLO issuance

We didn’t take full advantage of volatility

Be-Spoke one week away from pricing breakthrough SME CLO
Be-spoke Capital has moved a step closer to pricing its SME loan securitisation, with price talk emerging for the forthcoming Alhambra SME Funding 2019-1

CLO supply set for double-digit drop in 2020, says JP Morgan
US CLO supply in 2020 will be as much as 20% down on 2019, while European issuance will fall 13% year-on-year, predict JP Morgan strategists in a research note. Even so, new CLOs should still outpace existing deal paydowns, as well as high yield primary market net new issuance

BlueMountain prices first new issue US CLO for five months
BlueMountain Capital Management has priced its first new issue CLO since May, according to market source

Benefit Street prices $507.85 million US CLO
Benefit Street Partners priced its second new CLO of the year on Thursday, according to market sources

BlackRock brings triple A spreads back to 130bp with new US CLO
BlackRock has priced its latest new CLO named BlackRock XXIII, scoring the tightest triple A print for three months

AGL makes US CLO market debut via JP Morgan
The world welcomed a new CLO manager on Friday as AGL Credit Management priced its first ever transaction, named AGL CLO I

US CLO league tables: CSAM climbs to the top
Only $10.9 billion was brought to the US CLO market last month, while in the middle market CLO space, no deals priced. But Credit Suisse Asset Management dared venture into the primary market and as a result it moves to the top of the league tables

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

MacKay Shields prices first ever euro CLO
The European CLO market welcomed another new manager on Friday as MacKay Shields issued its first ever deal via JP Morgan

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

Two managers market their first ever European CLOs
Two CLO managers are in the process of marketing their inaugural European CLOs to investors, according to market sources

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

Go long CLO triple-A and pick cash bonds over CDS, says JP Morgan
Going long European CLO triple A paper remains one of JP Morgan strategists’ favourite trades following the European Central Bank stimulus announcement last week, despite these tranches having rallied 14bp on average since the bank first backed them. They also predict cash credit to outperform CDS

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

Euro CLO league tables: back to earth in tandem as issuance nosedives
August brought just €1.12 billion of issuance in the European CLO market across two refinancings and one reset, the quietest month since January when only €0.51 billion of European CLOs priced

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.