Cerberus prices its first GreensLedge-arranged CLO
Cerberus Business Finance priced a new middle market CLO on Friday, and worked with a new arranger for the first time since 2014

Credit hedge fund returns (May 2023)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (May 2023)
A round-up of people moves and fund raising

March madness sees most funds give up gains made in Q1
After a positive start to the year, credit funds ended the quarter with a step backwards; just under 30% of those listed reached positive returns for the month.

PGIM buys majority stake in direct lender Deerpath
PGIM has bought a majority interest in direct lending firm Deerpath Capital Management

MidCap prints 2023's second-largest CLO to date
Apollo affiliate MidCap Financial priced a new middle market CLO on Friday that is the second largest primary market transaction of 2023

Owl Rock prints its first CLO via SMBC Nikko
Blue Owl Capital priced a new middle market CLO on Wednesday, working with SMBC Nikko as arranger for the first time to print the deal

BlackRock prints middle market CLO via two arranging banks
BlackRock priced a new CLO named Mt Hood CLO X on Tuesday, the first new transaction pbacked by middle market loans to print in three weeks

Pimco eyes CLOs as part of new flexible credit interval fund
Pimco is preparing to launch a new closed-ended, non-listed interval fund, named Pimco Flexible Corporate Income Fund, which will invest at least 80% of assets in corporate debt across public and private credit markets

CLO funds make best of a bad situation
It can’t get any worse can it? Well, it did in 2022, when credit spreads kept moving wider. Still, CLO funds were able to withstand the pressure, and they outperformed other credit strategies

Fund performance: European CLO funds lead the way
February was a positive month for many funds, as only one quarter failed to reach the black. This builds off a stellar start to the year: 96% of funds reached a positive return in January

Credit hedge fund returns (April 2023)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (April 2023)
A round up of people moves and fundraising

CIFC hires investor relations specialist from BlockTower
CIFC Asset Management has hired a managing director in its investor relations group from BlockTower Capital

Audax becomes first manager of 2023 to reset a CLO
Audax Private Debt has become the first manager of 2023 to complete a CLO reset, teaming with Bank of America to rework its 2020 middle market deal named Audax Senior Debt CLO 4

Middle market CLO volumes surpass $2.5 billion in March after Churchill prices
Middle market CLO issuance for March climbed to $2.69 billion on Thursday after Churchill Asset Management priced a new transaction named Churchill MMSLF CLO II

Golub prices $1.4 billion CLOs in a single day
Golub Capital Partners priced two CLOs on Thursday worth a combined $1.4 billion in the biggest day of primary activity for a single manager so far in 2023

PennantPark prints this week's second new middle market CLO
Issuance for middle market CLOs by deal count for the week overtook figures for broadly syndicated CLOs on Thursday after PennantPark Investment Advisers priced a new $297.8 million transaction

Mid market CLO triple A spreads at 255bp after AB prices
AllianceBernstein priced a new middle market CLO named ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO XII on Wednesday, with the deal's triple A notes scoring a Sofr plus 255 basis point print

Mid market CLO league tables: February volumes exceed any 2022 month with Natixis setting the pace
New mid market CLO issuance totalled $3.5 billion in February, the highest monthly volume since November 2021

More than $1 billion new mid market CLOs print from Angelo Gordon and Cerberus
Angelo Gordon and Cerberus Business Finance each priced a new middle market CLO on Friday, with the two deals totalling over $1 billion in new issue volume

First Eagle promotes four across syndicated loans and direct lending
First Eagle Alternative Credit has promoted four officials to senior-level roles across its direct lending and syndicated loans businesses

Recurring revenue ABS: meet the latest CLO variant
A new asset class is being added to Creditflux’s middle market CLO league tables with an increasing number of firms moving into recurring revenue ABS

Blue Owl lands with low-levered, mid-market CLO
Blue Owl Capital has priced a middle market CLO which conforms to its usual low-levered template. 

Orix USA makes two senior appointments to investor solutions unit
Orix Corporation USA has hired two managing directors to its investor solutions division