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

US CLO league tables: AGL grabs new issue lead
AGL Credit Management has added to an impressive run of CLO deal-making, pricing its fifth US new issue of 2020

PGIM gives $150 million upsize to CLO that priced last month
PGIM has completed a rare feat by upsizing a US CLO in the window between its pricing date and closing date

Global CLO b-wic round-up: Palmer Square sets highest cover as double B curve inverts
Palmer Square and MJX set the CLO secondary market trading range, but pickings in Europe were the slimmest they have been in almost five months

Three years after launch, Rockford Tower joins the elite
The CLO platform launched by King Street Capital Management in 2017 has been crowned Creditflux Manager of the Year

CLOs hold $600 million of bankrupt retailer Tailored Brands
Tailored Brands has become the latest US retailer to file for Chapter 11 as a result of the coronavirus-induced pandemic. 37 US CLO managers hold $588.9 million in term loans of the Houston-headquartered firm,

OC health check: breaches start to take toll on July payment dates
37 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation test failure last week, but this was a falling percentage of those publishing trustee reports and none were fresh breaches

PGIM prints new CLO on busiest day for issuance since pandemic outbreak
PGIM on Monday priced its second new CLO since the March sell off, coming on the busiest day for CLO issuance since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic

CLO pipeline: manager prepares crowning return as primary market gets busy
CLO secondary prices have rallied hard in recent weeks, providing impetus for the new issue deal pipeline to fill up quickly. But one surprise is that Western Asset Management has chosen this moment to return to the primary CLO market, after several years' absence

Global CLO b-wic round-up: double Bs lead the way as rally endures and drags equity with it
The CLO secondary market continued its hard rally last week as prices rose across the whole asset class with double B rated CLO bonds leading the charge tighter

CLO double Bs go on late night b-wic as spreads tighten sharply
Investors are piling into junior US CLO tranches as traders begin to see economic recovery following the pandemic

Global CLO b-wic round-up: secondary prices reach March levels
The Memorial Day bank holiday in the US and the late May bank holiday in the UK meant a short week for CLO trading, but that did not stop a good supply of US CLO triple A rated paper making its way to the secondary market

European investors eye 180bp pick-up on triple B CLOs traded in April
A b-wic consisting of mostly European triple B CLOs that traded in late April is on offer at 9.30am New York time tomorrow, according to market sources, as data shows spreads for the rating band averaging 546 basis points over Euribor as of 27 May

Apollo and Barings defer equity payments on long-dated CLOs
Apollo Global Management and Barings have joined PGIM in deferring their scheduled April payment dates for a handful of European CLOs, according to the latest payment reports on CLO-i. Apollo also deferred payments on several of its US CLOs.

Who’s got the moves US: oil and gas leads renaissance for US CLO managers
The US leveraged loan market has held steady over the last two weeks. After rising to just below 87 of par in mid-April, the S&P LSTA US Leveraged Loan index closed at 85.75 to start this week

Global CLO b-wic round-up: equity makes a return as investors search for price levels
Three European CLO equity bonds have traded with colour attached in the last two weeks in the secondary market

PGIM prices three-year US CLO via BNP Paribas as covid-era limitations ease
PGIM has priced the second new issue CLO to run a three-year reinvestment period following the market dislocation triggered by the coronavirus pandemic

Beneath the triple C: $31.6 billion of CLO credits feel downgrade pain
March madness took a toll on CLOs as Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s downgraded 4.25% of the portfolios in the US and 1.84% in Europe to triple C or below in just one month (some of these were already triple C rated, only to fall further).

Citi makes $100 million-plus gains on CLO triple A trade
Citi bought $2 billion of CLO triple As from PGIM last month and made more than $100 million in profit after selling the bonds when triple A prices recovered, according to Bloomberg

PGIM revives CLO plan with switch to static transaction
The CLO market has been on hold for three weeks due to coronavirus-induced volatility, but experienced CLO managers are attempting to revive the primary pipeline via a static format

European CLO triple Bs go from 99 to 73 in less than a month
European CLO mezzanine prices have fallen by almost 30 cents in less than a month, with a b-wic yesterday featuring a 2019 PGIM-managed CLO underlining the dramatic decline

We’ve survived before, we can do so again
$7.8 billion of CLO collateral, split evenly between the US and Europe, is in the loans that have fallen fastest in the past month. But short term CLO pain will bring opportunities for building par

PGIM lines up for print and sprint CLO
PGIM is looking to capitalise on market volatility by issuing a 'print and sprint' style CLO via Jefferies

Back from the dead: CLO risk retention resurfaces in the US
Risk retention is making an unexpected comeback in the US CLO market as more managers look to structure their deals to comply with European risk retention regulations

Kayne Anderson prices US CLO in line with experienced issuer as triple As tighten
Kayne Anderson underlined its position as one of the leading CLO issuers among the new generation of CLO managers, pricing a US CLO on the same day as PGIM