Fund performance
Entering the final three months of the year, CLO funds took a clean sweep of the top 10 spots in the Creditflux tables. October was strong overall, as over 85% of funds listed made positive returns

Credit hedge funds
Credit hedge fund perfomance

CLOs at a glance
Our list of recent CLO pricings globally

ICG nabs a second Euro CLO deal before year end
ICG has reset its Euro CLO 2022-1 with a moderately tightened overall cost of funding

Fidelity prices Euro CLO offering, continuing a parade of December resets
Fidelity has repriced a deal originally issued by MeDirect Bank in 2019, arranged by JPMorgan  

CVC slashes cost of funding by more than 100bps on latest Euro CLO reset
The reworking of CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XXVI tightened spreads through the stack on the 2022-vintage deal

Five Arrows tightens up mezz with 2019-vintage Euro CLO reset
The third European reset of the year for Five Arrows Managers saw the triple-As price at 133bps over the base rate  

Partners makes it seven Euro deals for the year with Penta CLO 7 reset
Partners Group was among the European managers to end the year on a high note, pricing Penta CLO 7 via Citi – the manager’s seventh European deal of 2024

KKR’s latest Euro CLO reset records tightest overall funding cost of 2024
KKR has priced the tightest long-duration European reset of 2024 measured by overall cost of funding with a 2018-vintage issue arranged by Jefferies

Tikehau slashes funding cost on latest Euro reset
Tikehau Capital reset a late-2022-vintage Euro CLO achieving a dramatically lower cost of debt on Friday, as managers rushed to price deals before the holiday season

Blackstone prints new-issue European CLO
Blackstone has priced Waterstown Park CLO, its sixth new European issue of 2024, in a EUR 405.3m transaction  

BNP Paribas sees credit upside in 2025, even amidst Trump-led unpredictability
The bank also sees CLO equity outperforming in 2025 benefiting from resilient loan fundamentals, strong cash flows, and the upside potential from reset activity

Carlyle resets 2020-vintage CBAM Euro deal
Carlyle has reset a European CLO, sized at EUR 298.425m, that was originally priced by CBAM in October 2020 

HPS prints new vanilla deal as European market maintains momentum
A new EUR 457.4m BSL CLO from HPS continued the unusually strong bout of December issuance momentum

Alcentra prints Euro CLO reset with equity injection
Alcentra has reset a 2018-vintage transaction achieving a weighted cost of debt of Euribor plus 205.2bps, in line with the market but a sharp increase on the pre-reset levels

Polus returns to market with upsized new Euro CLO issue
Polus has upsized its CLO, second new European issue of the year, to EUR 457m via Jefferies  

John Goldfinch joins Proskauer Rose as part of major recruitment drive
Leading structured finance lawyer John Goldfinch has joined Proskauer Rose after leaving A&O Shearman in September 

European BSL CLO Rankings - November 2024
November was the busiest month of the year for the European CLO market according to our latest league tables, with EUR 9.4bn of total issuance 

JPMorgan forecasts strong new CLO supply, 120bp AAAs, in 2025 outlook
JPMorgan's CLO research team has forecast ongoing strong US CLO new issuance for next year to some USD 180bn in 2025 while Europe is also expected to maintain its record new-issue performance with some EUR 45bn in new issuance next year

Creditflux announces date for 2025 CLO Symposium & Manager Awards
Our flagship CLO Symposium & Manager Awards will be returning on 14-15 May 2025 in an expanded two-day format at a new home, Nobu Hotel London Portman Square

GoldenTree prints tightest new European CLO since October
GoldenTree’s second new European deal of 2024 priced as the tightest new Euro CLO since October, arranged by Barclays 

European CLO market expects to maintain deal momentum far into December
European CLO market is bracing for a unusally busy December with deals expected from HPS, Polus and PGIM

BlackRock acquires HPS in USD 12bn deal
BlackRock has acquired HPS Investment Partners for USD 12bn in an all-stock transaction, creating a private credit franchise with a combined USD 220bn in client assets

Oak Hill Advisors increases target cap to a billion dollars for new CLO equity fund
New York-based Oak Hill Advisors has raised USD 459m so far for its new CLO equity fund and increased the cap by USD 200m

Arcano Partners launches European CLO platform with EUR 150m of captive equity
Spanish firm Arcano has announced it is launching a new CLO platform and has raised captive equity to back issuance