Oaktree identifies CLOs among top picks in credit
Oaktree Capital Management’s head of performing credit Armen Panossian has outlined CLO tranches among his three favoured investments in this market

LP round up: Oak Hill wins $3bn mandate as credit allocations near $10bn in March
Institutional investors revealed over $9.5 billion of allocations to credit funds in March. Oak Hill Advisors walked away with the largest mandate, as US heavyweight pension Calpers allocated a whopping $3 billion across several of its funds

LP round up: Fidelity wins big, Pacific retains loan mandate, pensions eye distressed
The month also included one CLO fund commitment, one high yield manager search, one finalised US loans mandate and one $400 million multi-sector fixed income managed account mandate

Oaktree closes $3 billion real estate debt fund with 55% deployment
Oaktree Capital Management held a roughly $3 billion final close on its third global real estate debt strategy, Real Estate Debt Fund III

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

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

Credit Fundraising: mega funds contribute to record-breaking month as volume hits $39bn
The sheer size of the funds raised in November more than compensated for a drop in the number of funds raised as fundraising volume in credit reached $38.9 billion. This beat September by $2.4 billion to make it the most productive month of credit fundraising in 2021

Tight Oaktree CLO underlines 21% widening in Euro triple As this year
Oaktree Capital Management has priced its second European CLO of 2021 in a deal that highlights how far senior CLO spreads have drifted this year

Oaktree raises largest ever fund with $15.9 billion for "opportunistic credit" strategy
Oaktree Capital Management has closed its largest ever fund, collecting a whopping $15.9 billion on its latest opportunistic credit strategy, Oaktree Opportunities Fund XI

Brookfield hires industry veteran as public securities CIO
Brookfield Asset Management has hired a long-serving credit and equity market professional as chief investment officer for its public securities group

Resets return as Oaktree reworks and upsizes 2020 European CLO
Oaktree Capital Management has become the latest manager to rework its 2020 European CLO

Credit Fundraising: Blue Owl and WhiteHorse gain from improving animal spirits
Fundraising perked up in July as managers raised $14.9 billion for credit funds - the third highest monthly amount this year

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

UK pension allocates £2.1 billion to CQS, Neuberger and Oaktree
Three global credit managers have won a total of £2.1 billion in credit mandates from Brunel Pension Partnership, as part of its newly launched Multi Asset Credit Fund.

Oaktree Euro CLO moves market tighter as Deutsche Bank joins forces with Standard Chartered
European CLO triple As have jumped tighter with Oaktree Capital Management resetting senior notes at 93 basis points, compared to the 96.2bp July average for European CLOs with similar reinvestment profiles

Standard Chartered takes on hybrid placement agent/investor role on European CLOs
Standard Chartered has made a breakthrough in European CLOs by serving as co-placement agent on deals

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

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

Oaktree and Guggenheim price near identical European CLO resets
Oaktree and Guggenheim became the latest managers to reset European CLOs, adding a further €698.3 million to 2021 volume

European CLO juniors tighten with Oaktree new issue
European CLO lower mezzanine spreads tightened to February levels with Oaktree Capital Management’s latest new issue

Global CLO trading lab: secondary volumes inflate and easily get absorbed
Weekly secondary CLO volume has been lower across the capital structure in recent weeks as 2021’s refinancing wave left investors with plenty of choice

Oaktree resets European CLO at market tights
JP Morgan printed a €372 million reset of Oaktree Capital Management’s Arbour CLO IV on Friday afternoon, according to market sources. The deal points to further spread compression for CLO reset transactions, particularly for mezzanine tranches

All’s well that ends well in 2020 OC tests
Swathes of CLOs failed over-collateralisation tests last year, but unlike the drawn-out recovery following the 2008 financial crisis, the return to compliance after the covid-19 crash was rapid 

LP round up: pensions plan private credit pacing as strategic credit takes on "midfield" role
US pensions have allocated $1.4 billion across 22 credit funds including those managed by Angelo Gordon, Ares and GoldenTree, according to recent board documents seen by Creditflux. Meanwhile a pension fund draws parallels between strategic credit and Jordan Henderson

LP round up: Arcmont, Ares and Sixth Street win European direct lending mandates
Investors have allocated around $2 billion to credit funds in recent weeks, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux. Among those to recieve allocations include ADM, Arcmont, Ares, Audax, Bain, Centerbridge, Clearlake, Goldman Sachs merchant banking,  Invesco, Monarch, Oaktree, Raven, Sixth Street and Sound Mark