US CLO pipeline: Go long! Refis fall from favour as AMMC looks to join list of 2021 issuers
The only record left to fall this year in US CLOs is 2017’s refinancing total of $102.8 billion with the market $6.3 billion shy. Yet this segment shows little interest to break more records with the pipeline filled with new issues and resets as longer tenured deals are preferred.

Global CLO trading lab: Seasoned equity prices lag as debt spreads level out
The CLO secondary market took a back seat to the surging primary market in August and September with secondary US CLO volume accounting for just 3.7% and 4.2% of the total US CLO market (primary and secondary volumes). But opportunities are there in CLO equity tranches

US CLO pipeline: 1.0 manager returning, Carlyle going for CLO 10 as market goes to 100
Never in 1,000 years would the critics have expected this 

CLO resets flood in with $2 billion printing across five deals
Five US CLO resets priced between Friday and Monday for a total volume of over $2 billion, covering a wide array of managers and different CLO vintages

Fitch places 102 US CLO tranches under 'observation' following methodology changes
Fitch Ratings says it has placed 102 tranches issued by 43 US CLOs and 13 tranches by seven Trups CDOs under criteria observation, following the update to its CLO and corporate CDO rating criteria earlier this month

US CLO pipeline: 33 new issues enter market with historic CLO records on the verge of shattering
The US CLO market is running as hot as it has all year with a whopping 33 managers marketing new issues CLOs, according to market sources

DBRS pays $1 million to settle CLO combo note rating charges
Credit ratings agency DBRS Morningstar has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges relating to the rating of CLO combo notes

Oaktree prunes another 2019 CLO with refi
Oaktree Capital Management has refinanced a 2019 CLO, which has about two and-a-half years to run on its reinvestment period.

Ares refis former Crestline Denali CLO debt via Natixis for third time
Ares Management has refinanced the senior-most tranches of a 2016 CLO it bought from Crestline Denali last year

Patience pays off as control CLO equity investor expands into US
US CLO equity investor Lakemore Partners signalled major CLO growth plans after it hired US loans veteran Dan Norman in August. Officials at the firm say they have been building towards this important development

Assured cuts funding costs of 2016 CLO by 21bp with refi
Assured Investment Management has cut the funding costs of its 2016 CLO named BlueMountain 2016-2 by 21.1 basis points in refinancing the deal via Citi

KKR upsizes 2016 CLO by $120 million
KKR Credit on Monday reset its 2016 CLO, named KKR CLO 16, with a $121.54 million upsize

Control US CLO equity investor raises $400 million for fourth fund
The fund focuses on US CLO control equity positions, typically investing around 95-100% of the equity tranche

Voya reworks 2012 CLO for fourth time
Voya CLO 2012-4 reworkings mount to four, after refinancing, reset, partial refi and another partial refi 

Vibrant cuts 2016 CLO's funding cost by 25bp with refi
Vibrant Capital Partners teamed up with Morgan Stanley on Friday to refinance its 2016 CLO named Vibrant IV

CBAM promotes eight to investment committee on fifth anniversary
CBAM Partners has promoted eight people to its investment committee as it marks the five year anniversary of its founding

Investcorp resets CLO that left reinvestment in October
Investcorp Credit Management reset its post-reinvestment CLO named Jamestown CLO IX via MUFG on Thursday

CLO pipeline: Carlyle unstoppable as PGIM looks to tighten double As
The CLO machine is refusing to slowdown, churning out deals as the US market is set to welcome a flurry of deals in the coming weeks – with 18 new issues, 14 resets and 10 refinancings in the marketing stage.

Anchorage saves on two CLOs with refi and partial refi
Anchorage Capital Group is on a run of refinancings, having lightened the capital structure of a 2016 CLO shortly after it partially refinanced a 2018 deal for the second time in less than a year

Morgan Stanley promotes official to sole head of CLOs as colleague takes on new cap intro role
The figureheads of Morgan Stanley’s US CLO business have gained new responsibilities 

Oak Hill upsizes 2016 CLO by $53.9 million
Oak Hill Advisers paired with GreensLedge on Friday to reset a 2016 CLO, OHA Credit Partners XIII

CLO pipeline: Birch Grove and Fort Washington dish out first 2021 deals as Carlyle goes for sevenths
CLO investors can feast on a range of deals in the new issue market over the next month. 

Global CLO trading lab: Equity supply spikes as investors go long
CLO equity returned to the secondary market in a big way last week, after a month of very little visibility, with $118.3 million of US CLO and €44.9 million of European CLO subordinated notes on sale

US CLO pricing lab: expensive legacy deals take priority as two-three year point on term curve tightens
The US CLO market may have gapped out in recent weeks, but expensive 2019 and covid-era CLO refis and resets are still in the money

MJX resets CLO just days before old reinvestment end date
MJX Asset Management reset its 2016 CLO named Venture XXIII on Friday, just three days before the deal was set to leave its original reinvestment period