Unusual double As jump tighter as BMO keeps it in-house again with CLO refi
BMO has refinanced a CLO for BMO that resulted in junior double As moving much tighter relative to senior double As 

Antares prints largest new issue CLO for four months
Antares Capital priced the fourth largest new CLO of 2021 on Tuesday with the $806 million Antares CLO 2021-1

Owl Rock downsizes equity tranche in reset of 2020 CLO
Owl Rock Capital Advisors has reset a middle market CLO from May 2020, downsizing the deal's equity tranche in the process

Golub downsizes equity tranche by $11.3 million in reset of 2013 CLO
Golub Capital Partners has cut the size of the equity tranche in its middle market CLO in a rare move

Credit fundraising: Audax scores big in lighter month
Fundraising markedly dropped in May, but credit funds still amassed $12.8 billion and 10 credit funds reached final closes across a variety of different strategies

Fund performance: CLO funds outperform as two hit over 100% 12-months return
CLO funds swatted away the competition in April on their way to dominating our top 10 credit hedge fund return table after an upbeat month

Credit funds at a glance (June 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

AB cuts 2019 CLO's funding costs by 42.5bp with refi
AB has refinanced its 2019 middle market CLO named ABPCI Direct Lending Fund V via Natixis, lowering the deal's cost of debt by 42.5 basis points

First Eagle swoops for Prospect CLO portfolio manager
First Eagle has hired a former Prospect Capital Management CLO portfolio manager for its alternative credit business in New York

KKR, Oak Hill and Madison print combined $1.3 billion CLO resets
KKR Credit, Oak Hill Advisors and Madison Capital each priced a CLO reset on Wednesday, with the three deals amounting to $1.27 billion

Carlyle hires head of credit investor relations in New York
Carlyle Group has hired an ex-Pretium official to lead investor relations for its credit platform

BlackRock issues mid market CLO after refinancing warehouse line with Morgan Stanley
BlackRock has priced an unusual middle market CLO that refinances a warehouse line Morgan Stanley provided 

Mid market CLO league tables: Antares and Wells Fargo press reset to lead market
Following March's $5.87 billion, the busiest month of mid market CLO issuance since at least 2016, April felt like a quiet month for mid market CLOs with $2.26 billion pricing across three new issues, two resets and one partial refinancing

Fund performance: Lightning strikes twice as range of credit funds deliver
What seemed like a chance occurrence in February has struck again in March, as seven categories make our top 10 best performing hedge funds

Credit funds at a glance (May 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit 

Morgan Stanley flies the banner for Brigade and Maranon new CLOs
Morgan Stanley printed two new CLOs this week after scoring mandates from Brigade Capital Management and Maranon Capital

CLO banker to leave Goldman Sachs for dual CLO-direct lending role on buy side
Goldman Sachs is set to lose a member of its new issue US CLO team with market sources indicating an official with a decade's experience at the bank is joining a CLO issuer in a multifaceted role

Lord Abbett prepares special situations interval fund
Lord Abbett is preparing to launch a new special situations fund in the form of an interval fund

Credit Rendezvous: ready and waiting
In Creditflux's quarterly review of credit, portfolio managers tell us that Inflation is likely to nudge higher but they are optimistic because dispersion will pick up and windows of volatility will emerge, rather than elongated phases of stress 

Black Diamond structured credit BD head joins impact investment firm
Black Diamond Capital Management's head of structured credit business development has parted ways with the firm after nearly four years, according to market sources. He is set to join start-up impact investment firm Lafayette Square as managing director and head of capital markets

"Three CLOs issued in 2021 have included triple C baskets of 20%"
Big triple C buckets helped mid market CLO issuers in 2020 and the trend is for even bigger allowances this year

Ucits at a glance: Advent and Algebris lead the pack again
Ucits funds saw the brighter side of February, as 80% of funds achieved a positive return

LP round-up: $2.6 billion flows into 26 credit managers
A stuck ship in the Suez Canal may have prevented others from getting through one of the world's busiest waterways in March, but allocations to credit funds were much more free flowing as investors poured over $2.6 billion into the hands of credit managers