Euro CLO round-up: benchmark ruffles up, but junior tranches sit tight
CLO triple A benchmark levels underwent a shake-up last week as Credit Suisse Asset Management and HPS Investment Partners brought deals to the market with first-pay tranches printing above the recent benchmark of 108.5 basis points

HPS prints triple As at 111bp in latest European new issue CLO
HPS Investment Management has priced a new CLO in Europe named Aqueduct EUR CLO 4, with triple As printing at 111 basis points over Euribor

Key figure in HPS's direct lending team parts ways with the firm
HPS Investment Partners has lost a senior member of its direct lending team in Europe

Tail wags dog as European CLOs' 108bp benchmark drags loans
European CLOs usually price on the back of where underlying loans are printing, but this year the reverse looks to be true

HPS returns to European primary CLO market with Aqueduct deal
HPS Investment Partners has priced its third new European CLO, following a €411.6 million deal arranged by Citi

HPS targets $8 billion for flagship mezzanine strategy
HPS Mezzanine Partners 2019, the firm's fourth fund in its mezzanine strategy, has won $100 million from a Louisiana pension fund 

Euro CLO round-up: five deals hit pipeline after BlueMountain keeps up momentum
BlueMountain Fuji CLO Management ended its seven-month absence from the new issue European CLO market and also broke the market’s silence this week. The firm partnered with Deutsche Bank to price its fourth deal in Europe - BlueMountain Fuji Euro CLO IV.

Keep calm and buy corporate loans
Calm heads prevailed in 2018. Markets were volatile and risk retention was supposed to cause problems, but there was no need to panic and volumes went on to break records set in 2014

Hyundai allocates $250 million to US real estate debt
Hyundai Investments has mandated $250 million to a real estate debt fund co-managed by Related Cos and HPS Investment Partners

HPS targets CLOs with new fund
The New York-based manager has raised nearly $100 million for its second opportunistic CLO fund, according to SEC filings

HPS takes leaf from Ellington's CLO book with 50% triple C bucket
HPS Investment Partners has priced its inaugural high-triple C bucket CLO via Citi

HPS markets CLO via Citi with 50% triple C bucket
HPS Investment Partners is set to become the largest manager to date to launch a CLO with a 50% triple C allowance

HPS prices first five-year CLO of the month
HPS Investment Partners has priced a $517 million reset of its 2015 deal named HPS Loan Management 5-2015

HPS expands in distressed debt by taking over Dallas-based Tålamod
HPS Investment Partners has struck a deal to bring on board the investment team from Dallas-based distressed debt specialist Tålamod Asset Management

Fair Oaks acquires control equity position in new US CLO
Fair Oaks Capital has acquired a control equity position in a new US CLO managed by HPS Investment Partners, according to a stock exchange announcement

Deutsche Bank's CLO desk wins new client after pricing HPS deal
Deutsche Bank has issued its first CLO transaction in partnership with HPS Investment Partners

Houlihan Lokey launches US loan platform and signs up HPS
Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has launched a new syndicated leveraged finance platform as part of its capital markets group in response to “significant client demand” 

Carlyle bolsters credit opportunities team with two senior hires
Carlyle has announced the appointment of Taj Sidhu and Philip Moore in the firm's credit opportunities team

Neuberger's Dyal acquires minority stake in HPS
Dyal Partners, a division of Neuberger Berman, has acquired a minority equity stake in global credit manager HPS Investment Partners

HPS prices $458.75 million CLO reset via Goldman
HPS Investment Management priced a $458.75 million CLO reset on Friday

HPS set to add junior triple As to 2016 CLO in $515.98 million reset
HPS has mandated Goldman Sachs to reset its $515.98 million CLO, HSP Loan Management 8-2016, according to a presale report from Standard and Poor’s

HPS gets off the mark with first new issue CLO of the year
HPS Investment Partners priced its first new issue deal of the year yesterday in a $510.55 million transaction arranged by Bank of America Merrill Lynch

B-wic round-up: above par bids flood in for CLO double Bs
$401.43 million worth of CLO paper was available via b-wics last week out of which $378.23 million (94.2%) traded, according to CLO-i

US CLO round-up: Unfazed by risk retention uncertainty, a busy market tests reissue and L-shape trends
Qualms about the future of risk retention regulations have not impeded a busy week in primary market CLOs, with managers dabbling in reissues, L-shaped deals and shorter non-calls

Goldman distressed debt specialist to join HPS in London
London-based Frederick Morris is leaving Goldman Sachs and moving to HPS Investment Partners, Creditflux has learned