Flood of new US CLOs print before long weekend as market wraps up busy week
A hectic day saw new issues pricing from Antares, Barings, CQS and Polus

Antares resets another super-sized middle market CLO
The transaction added USD 72m in equity and USD 450m worth of triple A paper

Antares resets middle market CLO with tight triple As and five-year timeline
The reworking of the 2018-vintage deal priced just one basis point outside the newly-established market tight, with a longer reinvestment period  

Antares resets largest middle-market deal in 2.0 era a second time
Antares Capital has printed a second reset of its legendary Antares CLO 2017-1, which holds the record as the largest middle-market deal in the 2.0 era

Antares sets new AAA tight for a middle-market CLO (again)
Antares beat its own triple-A benchmark when it priced Antares CLO 2024-6 with a senior spread of SOFR plus 156bps

Antares prices its fourth BSL-backed CLO
Antares continues to grow its BSL CLO business, with the veteran private credit manager pricing its second US BSL deal of 2024

Antares sets new triple-A tight with mid-market print
The relentless tightening of MM CLO spreads has continued with Antares pricing  a new MM CLO with triple-As paying SOFR plus 157bps

Antares sets tightest AAA spread for middle-market CLO reset
Antares Capital priced a reset last week of middle-market deal Antares CLO 2018-3, setting a new tight for the year of 159bps in the process

MM CLO senior spreads gap in to just 168bps in new deal
A new, super-sized middle market offering priced on Tuesday via Bank of America, setting a new tight for middle market spreads in the process

Antares hires CSAM managing director
Antares Capital has hired a new managing director and global head of product strategy and development from CSAM

Big is beautiful for latest Antares MM CLO
Last week saw Antares Capital Advisers price its first new CLO of the year, a giant middle-market deal that also priced extremely tightly

Antares resets 2019 vintage MM CLO
Antares Capital Management undertook its first primary market pricing activity of the year last week, with a middle market reset of a 2019-vintage deal arranged by SMBC Nikko

Antares shines bright as second BSL CLO prices
Three months on from its first BSL-backed CLO, Antares Capital has returned to the primary market, pricing its second new US deal on Tuesday

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

Antares adds to new syndicated loans unit with portfolio manager hire from Apex
Antares Capital has hired Andrew Stern as managing director and portfolio manager responsible for liquid credit

$1 billion mid market CLOs price from Antares and Deerpath
Antares Capital and Deerpath Capital Management each priced a new middle market CLO on Friday, with the two transactions clocking in at just under $1 billion

Antares confirms CLO PM hire to build broadly syndicated loan business
Antares Capital confirmed the appointment of former ICG official Seth Katzenstein as head of broadly syndicated loans today

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub makes it six straight while Natixis blows away the competition
In a trying year, issuance of mid market CLOs dropped a considerable amount. Total volumes dropped from $43.6 billion in 2021 to $20.8 billion in 2022, a 52% decrease year-on-year

Global 2022 CLO league tables
Global 2022 CLO league tables

Antares brings in manager's loan and high yield head for BSL CLO expansion
Antares Capital is set to build a broadly syndicated loan CLO business, having hired an experienced CLO PM from a US asset manager 

LP round up: 28 credit managers win $6.6 billion as San Diego carves private credit allocation
Pensions allocated over $6.6 billion to credit managers in June including Angelo Gordon, Antares, Apollo, Ares, Beach Point, BioPharma, Brookfield, CarVal, Cerberus...

CLO managers added to their pool of analysts last year: Fitch
CLO asset managers staffed up last year as primary issuance volume soared, with Fitch Ratings finding the average analyst team size increased from 16 to 17

Antares looks to support underrepresented groups with $1 million entrepreneur programme
Antares is granting $1 million of its own capital to entrepreneurs who are part of diverse and historically underrepresented groups

Antares hires bank's US CLO structuring head
Antares Capital has hired an experienced figure to structure its own CLOs and work on other financings. This follows Redding Ridge making a similar hire this month

Mid market CLO league tables: Arranger base grows as bumper day boosts issuance
Managers priced $3.4 billion of mid market CLO paper priced last month, the second busiest month of the year behind February and the third straight month new issues and resets made up 100% of issuance