CLOs at a glance (May 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
   

CLOs at a glance (April 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month  

Bain goes long with new European CLO as 2022 issuance passes €15 billion
Credit Suisse arranged Bain’s €416.72 million deal, named Bain Capital Euro CLO 2022-1, which features a 4.6 year reinvestment period and a two year non-call

Pennsylvania pension reveals $500 million in commitments to three private credit funds
Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement has revealed three private credit commitments as part of $1.1 billion in allocations to its alternatives bucket

CLOs at a glance (January 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Assured confirms Bain Euro CLO wrap trade
Assured Guaranty has confirmed it guaranteed the triple A tranche of the European CLO

Investors behind CLO guarantees emerge as Assured wraps third deal
A bank and an insurer have emerged as the two investors behind Assured Guaranty’s financial guarantees of recent CLO trades. And Assured Guaranty has provided a guarantee to an investor on a third European CLO

Bain prints second European CLO new issue of 2021
.Bain’s latest deal, Bain Capital Euro CLO 2021-2, comes just four months after it priced its first new issue of the year

Global CLO trading lab: quality and optionality shine as 2020 and 2019 mezz trades up
The primary and secondary CLO markets are moving in tandem with both markets drifting wider amid a wealth of supply

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

Bain passes €1 billion mark for Euro CLO 2021 volume with new issue
-Bain Capital Credit has taken its 2021 European CLO volume to over €1 billion in pricing its latest new issue, Bain Capital Euro CLO 2021-1

CLO pipeline: queue gets longer as Blackstone goes again and Sancus makes first move
The queue to price for US CLO managers is only getting larger with 18 new issue CLOs in the pipeline, according to market sources, along with 18 repricings and two new issue European CLOs and two mid market CLO resets

LP round up: $3.2 billion flows to 21 managers as private credit illiquidity premium holds firm
Investors allocated at least $3.2 billion to credit managers in April - and direct lending funds were in favour with Churchill and Ares being awarded two mandates

CLO pipeline: go long! new issues and resets push refis aside
The CLO market is ready to go beyond refinancings - after this year's opening blitz of those deals - into the longer tenored territory of resets and new issues

Bain saves 19.2bp on European CLO funding costs with partial refi
Bain Capital has partially refinanced the three most senior tranches of its European CLO, Bain Capital Euro CLO 2018-2

CLO double Bs hit 2021 wides as Bain injects equity into 2014 European reset
CLO double B reset levels tightened in February but have since widened to 710bp

Global CLO b-wic round-up: record level of CLO paper stalls rally
Record levels of primary and secondary CLO supply has left investors spoilt for choice and led to the CLO rally stalling

Bain and Pantheon form $320 million private credit JV to invest in Europe and Australia
Bain Capital Specialty Finance, a publicly traded business development managed by Bain, has formed a joint venture with Pantheon’s private credit business to invest across Europe and Australia

Bain preps follow-up to 2015 global direct lending fund
Bain Capital has launched its latest direct lending strategy, Bain Capital Global Direct Lending 2021

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US lower mezz trades strong, but European piece softens
CLO investors have had no chance to catch their breath after a historic 2020 as US CLO secondary volume reached $3.3 billion and European secondary listings topped €1 billion in January

LP round up: Arcmont, Ares and Sixth Street win European direct lending mandates
Investors have allocated around $2 billion to credit funds in recent weeks, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux. Among those to recieve allocations include ADM, Arcmont, Ares, Audax, Bain, Centerbridge, Clearlake, Goldman Sachs merchant banking,  Invesco, Monarch, Oaktree, Raven, Sixth Street and Sound Mark

Global CLO b-wic round-up: Junior tranches rally amid heavy supply, including portfolio liquidation
The US CLO secondary market rally is showing no signs of slowing down after a week of over $1 billion worth of bonds was listed and well absorbed, according to market sources. The European market also had a roust week with over €300 million of paper up for grabs, although the market stayed generally flat with some tightening in double and single Bs

Bain prints first European CLO of 2020 via Goldman
Bain Capital has priced its first European CLO of the year, via Goldman Sachs

CLO pipeline: New issuance pause ends as managers look to gain from rallying spreads
It is two and a half weeks since the last US CLO new issue priced, but that is set to change and Bridgepoint’s debut European transaction on Friday brought an end to Europe’s own two-and-a-half-week primary break

Global CLO b-wic round-up: Secondary markets rally despite ‘worst liquidity seen all year’
An adjournment in the US for Veterans Day last week still left plenty of time for the CLO secondary market to rally, thanks to Pfizer's covid-19 vaccine breakthrough and a firmer indication of the US presidential election results