First Eagle wraps up fundraising for $1 billion direct lending fund
The strategy will target 6-9% net internal rate of return for its unlevered sleeve and 8-11% net IRR of return for its levered sleeve

US investors welcome flurry of CLO new issues
The UK may have been off from Thursday for the Jubilee holiday, but in the US the primary CLO pipeline proceeded apace with several new issues hitting the market before Friday’s close

CSAM does the CLO awards double
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it

CLOs at a glance (June 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
 
   

First Eagle follows affiliate Napier Park by pricing US CLO
First Eagle Investment Management  on Friday priced its first US CLO since November 2021, teaming up with Citi on the $403.39 million Wind River 2022-1

We’re drifting apart
Everyone’s issuing US CLOs these days and it is tempting to believe the crowd of managers is blending into one. However, overall portfolio overlap has dropped to 37.7% across 2021 CLOs  

Arb work pays off
With day-one arbitrage alone delivering projected CLO cash-on-cash returns of 20-25%, 2021 may have been the best year ever for equity investors — at least until CLO spreads began to widen  

Quarterly rankings: Wave of acquisitions reshapes CLO market
A wave of acquisitions and consolidation hit the CLO market in the first quarter of 2022, although the ripples have yet to alter Creditflux’s manager rankings

Mid market CLO league tables: $1.1 billion Golub deal shuffles the pack
Mid market CLO issuance slowed last month amid market volatility with just one new issue and two resets pricing in March, worth a combined $1.9 billion

First Eagle to buy Napier Park
First Eagle Investments has struck a deal to acquire Napier Park Global Capital, according to an announcement, in a deal which will take the firm’s overall global CLO assets under management up to $29.7 billion.

Three US CLOs join growing list of deals to default
Another three US CLOs have the ignominy of having their tranches downgraded to D, taking the total list of 2.0 CLOs to default to eight. Before August 2021, 2.0 CLOs had a clean record according to S&P ratings 

First Eagle brings first new mid-market CLO since start of Ukraine crisis
First Eagle Investment Management has priced the first new middle market CLO since Russia's invasion of Ukraine sparked high volatility in the credit market

AIG, BlackRock, First Eagle and GoldenTree bring weekly CLO reset volume to $5.9 billion
Four managers capped off a huge week for US CLO reset activity by reworking 2019 deals, bringing weekly reset volume to $5.85 billion across 12 transactions

Credit funds at a glance (February 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Market ponders Sofr spread adjustment amid investor lag
The CLO market is waving goodbye to Libor as a benchmark rate and transitioning to alternatives for the first time in the history of the asset class. But there is no consensus as to what the Sofr spread adjustment should be, and some of the largest buyers are said to be slow to consider the impact of a benchmark transition

Mid market CLO league tables: the only record left to break in 2021
New issuance is still shy of the $16 billion set in 2018, but stands not far off at $15.62 billion

Citi carves up double Bs into three slices as it serves up new CLO
First Eagle Investment Management has split its double Bs three ways as part of a new issue CLO

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.

First Eagle prints fourth middle market CLO
First Eagle Investment Management has priced its fourth and largest middle market CLO, bringing its mid market deals under management to $1.5 billion

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

Neuberger Berman, Sculptor and First Eagle tap CLO refi market
Three CLO managers refinanced 2019 CLO paper worth a total of $1.44 billion on Friday

BNP Paribas refis one-year CLOs managed First Eagle and Octagon
BNP Paribas arranged CLO refinancings for First Eagle Investment Management and Octagon Credit Investors, with both deals having only around one year of reinvestment remaining

First Eagle lands new CLO with triple As at 115bp
First Eagle Investment Management printed its third new CLO of the year on Thursday, placing the deal's triple A notes at 115 basis points over Libor