CLO pipeline: busy year, so let's take time to reset
The US CLO market this year has been dominated by new issues and refinancings, but now is the time of the reset judging by this week’s pipeline

GoldenTree joins 2021's top five biggest CLOs with $707.1 million deal
GoldenTree Asset Management priced a $707.1 million CLO reset on Wedesday, catapulting the deal straight into the top five largest broadly syndicated loan-backed CLO transactions by volume for 2021

Credit fundraising: ESG centre stage as capital pours into new strategies
Sustainability was the watchword for fundraising in February, amid a flurry of fund launches as well as first closes for impact funds and sustainable bond funds

Barclays pulls levers as CVC resets and GoldenTree CLO surpasses Spire leverage
Barclays added to its arranging volume on Friday as GoldenTree Asset Management priced the market's highest levered European CLO

At least 2020 wasn’t dreadful for CLOs
Last year’s downturn was another in which CLOs survived and in many cases thrived as active management and Libor floors helped managers deliver 13%-plus returns to equity

GoldenTree closes second captive CLO fund at $725 million
GoldenTree Asset Management has raised $725 million for its second captive CLO fund named GLM II

US CLO spreads take big stride tighter as GoldenTree prints triple As at 107bp
CLO spreads tightened substantially on Friday after GoldenTree Loan Management priced its first new issue deal of 2021 with triple As paying just 107 basis points over Libor

Elements work against CLO managers in Q3
CLO equity distributions fell in Q3 largely due to factors, such as Libor mismatches, that CLO managers can’t control. But these headwinds could turn in favour of managers in the near future

Global b-wic round-up: Europe drifts wider
The CLO secondary market had a robust week with $860 million of US CLO paper and €315 million worth of European CLO bonds listed. But spreads widened off the back of concerns over lockdowns across the globe, the increased risk of downgrades and tomorrow’s US presidential election

Former GoldenTree high-flyers launch structured credit firm in Los Angeles
A former GoldenTree senior portfolio manager and business development specialist have launched an asset manager that will invest across an array of structured credit, including CLOs, synthetics and private transactions

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO triple As finally rally while European investors go ‘all in’
A huge supply of $731 million of US CLO triple A bonds pushed US CLO secondary volumes to just shy of $1.5 billion last week

Managers weigh up matters of principal
CLO managers that were able to avoid OC traps made double-digit equity distributions in Q2, despite the headwinds. But these firms tended not to be among those that built the most par

Three years after launch, Rockford Tower joins the elite
The CLO platform launched by King Street Capital Management in 2017 has been crowned Creditflux Manager of the Year

Spreads tighten as GoldenTree and BlackRock print tightest CLO triple As since March
The CLO market moved tighter on Friday as GoldenTree Loan Management and BlackRock each priced new issues with triple As at 155 basis points over Libor, scoring a new record print following the coronavirus sell off in March

Past returns: GoldenTree CLO trades over par
Five years ago we reported that the equity in a GoldenTree 1.0 CLO was in demand, despite the threat that its position could be marked down to zero

CLOs at a glance: global market hits post-outbreak high
Primary issuance is on the rise as global CLO volumes in June stand at $7.22 billion as Creditflux goes to press, exceeding the $7.12 billion in May

European CLO triple As grind tighter as GoldenTree prints largest transaction since outbreak
The €373.7 million transaction is the biggest CLO in Europe since the coronavirus pandemic began

GoldenTree streamlines multi-arranger approach with upcoming euro CLO
GoldenTree Asset Management is marketing a new short-dated European CLO

CLO pipeline: manager prepares crowning return as primary market gets busy
CLO secondary prices have rallied hard in recent weeks, providing impetus for the new issue deal pipeline to fill up quickly. But one surprise is that Western Asset Management has chosen this moment to return to the primary CLO market, after several years' absence

European investors eye 180bp pick-up on triple B CLOs traded in April
A b-wic consisting of mostly European triple B CLOs that traded in late April is on offer at 9.30am New York time tomorrow, according to market sources, as data shows spreads for the rating band averaging 546 basis points over Euribor as of 27 May

$350 million of CLO collateral drips into default as oil companies file for Chapter 11
CLOs hold $353 million worth of debt of two oil and gas companies - Ultra Petroleum and Gavilan Resources - which have become the latest casulties of the precipituous decline in oil prices. The pair filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on Thursday and Saturday, respectively

US CLO league tables: coronavirus brings changes in approach and new top manager
Amid a big slump in CLO primary issuance, new deals have taken focus and there are some notable changes at the top of the league tables

Global CLO b-wic round-up: equity makes a return as investors search for price levels
Three European CLO equity bonds have traded with colour attached in the last two weeks in the secondary market

Credit pickers need luck to avoid OC trap

US triple A CLO spreads tighten 90bp on month with GoldenTree new deal
Goldentree Asset Management today priced its first CLO following the covid-19-triggered market dislocation, scoring the tightest print of the new era in the process