What CLO investors really need to know
From the drivers of CLO performance to cashflow modelling, these are the seven things every CLO equity investor needs to know. This article is an extract from Dealscribe and CLO Research’s guide What CLO Equity Investors Need To Know

Fund performance
Q4 has kicked off with structured finance funds leading the way in the Creditflux league tables, as the category index reached 0.61%, and all but one fund made positive returns.

CLOs at a glance
CLOs at a glance

CLO market round-up: 27 Nov - 1 Dec
After a busy Thanksgiving week, CLO pricing activity was substantially quieter last week, with only a handful of deals in the market.

CLO market round-up: 20 - 24 Nov 2023
Thanksgiving or not, last week was a banner week for middle market CLO deals, with no fewer than five pricing

BlackRock launches securitised asset fund
BlackRock has launched a new securitised asset fund dubbed the BlackRock Senior Securitised Fund with at least 65% exposure to ABS and no more than 35% to CLOs

CLO market round-up: 13 - 17 Nov 2023
Who said it was a slow market in Europe? Pricing action in the primary European CLO market put paid to that notion over the past week with a trio of European deals pricing, including two debuts.

Creditflux CLO Symposium opens for booking
Our flagship CLO Symposium & Managers Awards is now open for registration. We will once again be returning to the Landmark Hotel in London on 15 May for this staple of the CLO community.

Setting standards for emissions data
Macroeconomic trends may have pushed the topic of ESG reporting down the news agenda this year, but this is changing with a raft of new regulations in countries around the world

CLO Census: It’s time to put the shop in order
After a lacklustre year for the CLO market, the 539 respondents to our comprehensive survey are increasingly calling for structural changes, from electronic trading to standardised documents

Fund performance
No autumnal fall for CLOs as category rises to 16.1% year to date

Credit hedge funds
Hedge fund performance tables

Credit funds at a glance
Fund performance; people hires; fundraising 

CLOs at a glance
Recent CLO primary market activity

Polls close tomorrow for the Creditflux CLO Census 2023
With two days of voting left the seventh instalment of Creditflux’s CLO Census is already the biggest ever with 397 participants

3Q23 YTD CLO rankings
Our latest set of CLO issuance rankings for 2023 showcase the most active CLO arrangers, lawyers and trustees over a challenging nine months

3Q23 manager rankings by AUM
Carlyle Group is now the largest CLO manager in the world, according to the latest update to our rankings of the CLO manager universe published today

Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling partners affirm merger
The partnership will help both firms expand internationally while changing the legal landscape

ELFA starts drive for consistent climate reporting in CLOs
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) has published a new report on CLO carbon and climate disclosures

Despite CLO gloom in Europe and greater take up of private credit in the US, markets on both sides of the Atlantic are similar
I’ve just returned from a trip to London, my first since taking on the mantle of editing Creditflux, and was struck as always by how stubbornly far apart the European and the US markets remain.

European CLOs win out against US deals
Last month, our analysis explored the performance of US CLOs that were previously reset. We found that they delivered higher distributions than deals which weren’t reset, with the exception of the 2017 and 2018 vintages (Creditflux September 2023 — Do resets help CLOs perform better?). This article expands that analysis to the European market, and compares the performance of US BSL and EU CLO equity tranches.

Basel III looks likely to further increase banks investment in CLO triple As
Demand for CLO triple As has grown substantially over the past few years as more banking institutions, pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies discover this attractive asset class, which historically has never taken a loss.

Primary market roars into life
The primary CLO market pickup that started in August continued strongly in September, both in Europe and the US. Although the overall direction was the same on both sides of the Atlantic, the type of activity was quite different.