Double B spreads shrink to just 635bp as BlackRock prints tightest CLO yet
BlackRock has once again priced the tightest three-year reinvestment CLO post-covid, repeating a feat it last acheived back in September

Allstate rides US CLO rally with super-tight new issue
Allstate Investment Management Company has printed a new CLO named AIMCO CLO 12 as liability tranches continue to rally

Europcar bonds hit full throttle on restructuring agreement
Europcar bonds are among the best performing in a flattish market today, after the French vehicle hire firm obtained an agreement with its main creditors on a financial restructuring

PGIM reunites with JP Morgan for first US new CLO partnership in six years
PGIM has reunited with JP Morgan for the pair's first new issue US CLO in partnership in almost six years

AB swings back to mid market CLOs with $346.8 million new issue
AB has returned to middle market CLOs following its debut in CLOs backed by broadly syndicated loans last month

Invesco scores tightest three-year triple A print with first US CLO in 12 months
Invesco has returned to the CLO primary market with a first new issue deal since October 2019

Ares rides vaccine rally to price tightest three-year US CLO
CLO primary spreads have tightened dramatically after Ares Management priced its first US new issue post-election, with weighted funding costs of just 167.38 basis points over Libor

Assured completes first CLO since BlueMountain name change
Assured Investment Management has priced a first CLO under its own moniker. The manager, formerly known as BlueMountain Capital Management, announced its change of name earlier this year, following its acquisition by insurer Assured Guaranty

Neuberger Berman prints first new issue US CLO of November as mezz spreads tighten
Neuberger Berman has brought to an end the CLO issuance drought surrounding the US election by printing the market's first new issue of November

WTW to tackle lack of diversity across investment industry
Progress on diversity across the investment industry is “disappointingly slow”, according to research from Willis Towers Watson

AB joins ranks of BSL CLO managers with debut transaction
AB has entered the fray as a manager of CLOs backed by broadly syndicated loans by printing a debut transaction via Morgan Stanley

HalseyPoint opts for rare four-year reinvestment structure in CLO
HalseyPoint Asset Management returned to the CLO primary market yesterday, pricing its largest new issue to date

Selecta splashes CLOs with bankruptcy credit event
Selecta Group has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Emea Determinations Committee has ruled

Tranche traders smell the coffee as Crossover default percolates
Selecta Group looks set to become the third European credit event in as many months to hit series 33 of the iTraxx Crossover index and tranches based on series 32

Ensco CDS leap wider on credit event trigger
CDS contracts referencing Ensco International, a Houston based subsidiary of offshore driller Valaris, have shot wider after the Americas Determinations Committee ruled the company has triggered a bankruptcy credit event

Valaris and Ensco posed to DC as bankruptcy credit events
Valaris and its subsidiary Ensco International Incorporated have been proposed to the Americas Determinations Committee as bankruptcy credit events after the group filed for chapter 11 protection in August

Europcar hits bumps on the road less travelled
A rough road for Europcar this week has taken its bond and CDS spreads back towards the outer reaches, setting the French car rental firm apart from a general improvement in fortunes for names at the wider end of the market

Banks and high yield corps lead charge as results prompt European rally
High yield corporate credit is today's outperforming part of the market as European credit rallies back from its recent wides, as the latest round of earnings proves stronger than many had expected

Chesapeake deliverables point to big pay-out on CDS
An initial list of deliverable obligations to settle CDS referencing Chesapeake Energy Corporation at auction points to a pay-out of over 97 cents to protection buyers - higher than where five-year contracts are priced

Covid-19 second wave fears drive divergence as spread widening accelerates
This week's credit market sell-off has picked up pace, along with a fall in stocks, after the US Federal Reserve painted a pessimistic picture for economic recovery and concerns mount about a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic

Fund performance: CLO tranches move up
April returns managed a partial bounce back after a tumultuous March. 82% of funds listed in the Creditflux database made positive returns, showing at least small signs of recovery after 90% of all funds listed posted negative returns in March

$350 million of CLO collateral drips into default as oil companies file for Chapter 11
CLOs hold $353 million worth of debt of two oil and gas companies - Ultra Petroleum and Gavilan Resources - which have become the latest casulties of the precipituous decline in oil prices. The pair filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on Thursday and Saturday, respectively

Private credit wins investor as Maryland pension introduces 5% allocation
Howard County Retirement has introduced a new bucket to the private credit asset class, reducing its core bond and hedge fund exposure to facilitate this measure, according to board documents seen by Creditflux

OC health check: eight CLOs report second month of test failures
20 CLOs reported overcollateralisation test failures last week, of which 12 were new breaches while eight were deals were failing for a second reporting period in a row

CLOs on lookout as Neiman recovery signals slump and DC confirms credit event
Five-year CDS referencing Neiman Marcus widened by four points to 95.25 points up front, according to IHS Markit, as the Americas Determinations Committee confirmed the US retailer has triggered a bankruptcy credit event