Sound Point and Trinitas add $921 million of CLO refi paper
Sound Point Capital Management and Trinitas Capital Management have each refinanced a CLO, with the deals adding a combined $920.7 million to market volume

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

CLO pipeline: four US and two European managers prepare first 2021 CLOs
The CLO market is set to carry on roaring with the pipeline as full as ever despite the summer slowdown just around the corner  

Natixis senior US CLO structurer departs for Morgan Stanley
An executive director on the Natixis's CLO structuring team is leaving the bank to join Morgan Stanley

No summer slowdown for US CLO refis as July volume passes $2.7 billion
Two CLO managers refinanced legacy transactions on Tuesday, bringing total refinancing volume for July to above $2.7 billion

US manager returns with first new CLO in over five years as triple As hit 130bp
A US CLO made a return to the US CLO primary market on Friday with its first new issue since March 2015

Investors proclaim ‘CLO arb is good’
Hold on to your hats: at long last market participants agree that US CLO economics are in favour of equity tranche investors

CLO manager shoots for success with CLO captive fund
A Colorado-based firm has joined a plethora of US CLO managers this year to fundraise for a CLO captive fund

Wellfleet issues its largest CLO in almost three years
Wellfleet Credit Partners returned to the CLO primary market on Thursday with its largest new issue deal since 2018

CLO pipeline: Man GLG resurfaces from six-year absence as deals exiting call-lock fill pipeline
CLO spreads have leaked out in recent weeks but deal economics are still favourable, encouraging managers to come back to the primary market for the first time this year

Permira takes 2021 Euro CLO volume over €1.4 billion with 2019 deal reset
Barclays arranged the €349.7 million ESG-labelled CLO, in a first-time partnership for the pair

CLO pipeline: GoldenTree makes good home for single Bs in swarm of activity
Wider CLO spreads are not deterring US CLO managers or equity investors, as 14 new issues, 10 resets and seven refinancings enter the pipeline

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

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. 

JP Morgan raises 2021 US CLO forecast to record $135 billion
JP Morgan's research desk has raised its US CLO new issue forecast for 2021 to $135 billion

HPS joins group of managers to upsize CLO equity with reset
HPS Investment Partners has joined the burgeoning group of CLO managers to upsize their equity tranche following a CLO reset

Ares scores rare refi of 2018 CLO
Ares has teamed up with Goldman Sachs to print a lesser-seen refinancing of a 2018 CLO: Ares L

CLO pipeline: all-time CLO issuance records come under threat
14 new issues in US and three European new CLOs look to price in the coming weeks

US CLO triple As and mezz move out of sync as Fidelity and Voya refi
Triple A and mezzanine CLO tranches told different stories yesterday as two US CLOs, with very different profiles, refinanced

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

S&P caps ratings for US CLOs through to end of August amid heavy supply
S&P Ratings will limit its acceptance of new US CLOs for rating through to the end of August as it models $120 billion of new issue supply in the US for 2021

Mid market CLO league tables: BlackRock takes new issuance lead with unusual deal via Morgan Stanley
BlackRock became the third mid market CLO manager to price two new issues this year and in doing so took the lead from Golub Capital in mid market CLO new issue league tables

US CLO managers with eye on Europe opt for risk retention
The US CLO market celebrated as domestic risk retention requirements were overturned in February 2018, but issuers are increasingly taking down 5% of their CLOs voluntarily with a view to satisfying European risk retention rules

CLO managers syndicate equity as arb is finally attractive
Some CLO managers have forgone majority equity holders in the past month, opting instead to syndicate first-loss tranches to between four and six minority investors

"Fat" triple Bs come to mid market CLOs via Maranon
"Fat" triple Bs have arrived in middle market CLOs after Maranon Capital reset its 2018 deal Maranon Loan Funding 2018-1 via Wells Fargo on Monday