Kayne appoints new CEO as Levitt and CLO team spin out
More details have emerged on the spin out of Kayne Anderson’s credit business, first reported by Creditflux today, with sources indicating chief executive officer Michael Levitt is part of the team that is leaving

Brigade follows its playbook as it promotes senior analyst to replace outgoing CLO PM
Brigade Capital Management is promoting a senior analyst to replace its CLO portfolio manager, who is set to leave for another role. It used a similar approach of promoting from its research team in 2016. 

Q2 senior and junior CLO spreads appear to converge as Sound Point prints new deal
Sound Point Capital Management has reached a landmark after printing Sound Point CLO XXX via JP Morgan on Friday, according to market sources. The deal suggested that senior CLO spreads have widened, while juniors have compressed since the start of the quarter

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

GoldenTree refis irregular 2012 CLO
GoldenTree Loan Management refinanced the double A notes of its irregular CLO named GoldenTree Credit Opps 2012-1

European PM departs as Investcorp shakes up CLO management approach
A European loan portfolio manager and trader has parted ways with Investcorp Credit Management amid a shake-up in how the firm manages its CLOs

Global CLO trading lab: Octagon CLO comes out top in CLO double B spike
Double B-rated bonds made up 40% of the European and US CLO secondary markets last week. $222 million of US CLO double B bonds were on sale and a further €105 million of European CLO double B items were listed

Experienced CLO structurer set to join RBC as it reorganises CLO desk
A well known CLO structurer is leaving behind his job on one of the busiest CLO arranging desks in the business to join RBC

Bank's senior US CLO structurer lands at Elmwood
An experienced CLO structurer has taken up the post of head of CLO structuring at fast-growing Elmwood Asset Management

WhiteStar finally makes it to Europe
US CLO manager WhiteStar Asset Management opened an office in London last month in what officials describe as the culmination of a plan that has been many years in the making

2012 and 2019 US CLOs get new lease of life as Barings and CVC hit reset
CVC Credit and Barings each tapped the CLO reset market on Friday, bringing total US reset volumes for April up to $4.15 billion

CLO captive funds surge as US manager becomes latest to launch
The New York-based manager joins the likes of Kayne Anderson and GoldenTree this year to raise funds to invest in their own CLO equity and warehouse lines

Former MKP CLO tranche investor lands at big US credit manager
A well-known CLO investor who previously worked at MKP and Goldman Sachs has landed at a firm that issues and invests in CLOs

CLO pipeline: US adds deals at frenetic pace as Europe catches breath after record start
US CLO investors have numerous deals to consider with 13 new issues and 15 repricings being prepared to flood the market in the coming days

Octagon cuts 2012 CLO's funding costs by 22.89bp in refi
Octagon Investment Partners has shaved 22.9 basis points off the funding costs of its oldest active CLO in a $612.7 million refinancing transaction arranged by Credit Suisse

Differences surface between two US CLO refis, despite similar tenors
CLOs from 2013 and 2017 with similar tenors priced senior note refinancings 10bp apart on Thursday, highlighting that longevity matter

Issuer goes from debutant to zero in one year as PM leaves and CIFC swoops for sole CLO
A US CLO manager has gone from debuting in 2019 to having no CLOs under management as CIFC takes over its one deal

Rockford Tower and Oak Hill reset $1.1 billion of CLOs
$1.12 billion fresh CLO reset paper hit the market on Thursday as Rockford Tower Capital Management and Oak Hill Advisers each reworked transactions

CLO pipeline: all bases expand as more absentees join bonanza
The US CLO market is bubbling with issuance as 17 new issues and 15 repricings appear in the pipeline. Europe is set to welcome two new issues and nine repricings while Golub Capital looks to bring its first 2021 deal to the middle market

Global CLO b-wic round-up: 2020 deals trade at premium
As the primary CLO market continues to grind tighter, the secondary market is holding steady, but last year's vintages are trading well as they near the end of their call-locks

CLO pipeline: snow business like the CLO business
CLO issuers are putting aside the cold snap and are warming up with a flurry of deals.

Former Wells Fargo CLO head joins insurer as head of credit investments
A US insurer has made its second big CLO hire in a matter of weeks with a well-known figure joining as head of credit investments, to oversee CLO, ABS (excluding CMBS) and corporate credit portfolios 

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

Key CLO official parts ways with Prospect
The central portfolio manager on Prospect Capital’s CLO investment team has left the firm in New York

OC health check: CLOs end 2020 with fragile recovery
Only 109 CLOs breached an overcollateralisation test in December, falling from 121 in November. This in turn was down from the 147 CLOs that breached an OC test in October, but 33 cured their breaches in November and a further 11 cured all OC test failures in December