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

BlackRock launches impact bond fund
BlackRock has launched a fixed income fund focused on green, social, and sustainable bonds as well as ‘impact’ MBS and municipal investments

Creditflux CLO Census results: JP Morgan claims clean sweep of US CLO arranging categories
Following the close of this year’s census, JP Morgan was a quadruple winners in the US, with results declaring it the best at syndicating, structuring and providing both the best access to loans and the best warehouse service

Large CLO investor becomes latest to launch triple-A focused CLO ETF
A large US manager joins the likes of Alternative Access, Janus Henderson and PineBridge/VanEck, that have launched CLO exchange traded funds since 2020

Mid market CLO league tables: Natixis extends lead with two new issues but SocGen stays close
Of the three mid market CLO new issues that priced in August, market leader Natixis arranged two of them to put some breathing room between it and its nearest rivals

LP round up: private credit takes big slice of inflows as 10% portfolio share projected for 2026
Institutional investors revealed nearly $4 billion allocations to credit funds in July, with recipients including Angelo Gordon, Apollo, Ares, BlackRock, Brookfield, CarVal, Comvest, Deerpath, KKR, Schroders and Sixth Street

BlackRock prints first MM CLO in over a month
BlackRock broke the middle market CLO silence on Thursday by pricing its latest deal, named BlackRock Maroon Bells CLO XI

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

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

BlackRock closes £1.7 billion private debt fund with wide mandate for UK pensions
The firm has deployed around 60% of the fund, which invests across US and European direct lending, US and European real estate debt and the firm’s global opportunistic strategy

Five credit managers win nearly $1 billion from UK pension pool
Five private credit funds emerged as winners after UK pension pool Border to Coast revealed $1 billion in a wide variety of private credit commitments

BlackRock CLO triple As set new benchmark of 205bp
The emerging benchmark triple A spread for three-year reinvestment CLOs is 205 basis points, with BlackRock having placed first pay notes there on its latest offering, Magnetite XXXV

CLO pipeline: large managers defy loan drought to keep market moving
US CLO senior spreads may have blown out to 180-190 basis points over Sofr for five-year deals, and even wider for short-dated new issues, but that will not stop the market from soldiering on

CSAM does the CLO awards double
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it

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

BlackRock CLO establishes 150bp new US triple A benchmark
BlackRock has priced a new CLO named Magnetite XXXIII, placing the deal's triple A notes at 150 basis points over Sofr

LP round up: Apollo and Silver Rock win over $1 billion as pensions plough into private debt
Institutional investors allocated at least $2 billion to credit funds in April, according to Creditflux data, with Apollo and Silver Rock emerging as big winners

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

Mid market CLO sales explode with BlackRock, Churchill and Monroe printing deals
Middle market CLO sales flared on Friday, with managers pricing three deals worth a combined $1.2 billion

Spread widening shows up in primary CLOs as BlackRock prints triple As at 135bp
CLO triple A spreads widened on Monday as BlackRock priced its first new deal of the year with its first-pay notes yielding 135 basis points over Sofr

AIG, BlackRock, First Eagle and GoldenTree bring weekly CLO reset volume to $5.9 billion
Four managers capped off a huge week for US CLO reset activity by reworking 2019 deals, bringing weekly reset volume to $5.85 billion across 12 transactions

Fund performance: Wasserstein's early 2021 performance drives it to the top
The final top 10 of 2021 featured a variety of funds as five different strategies were ranked among the best. US high yield was the most highly represented with two BlackRock funds and an Angel Oak in the top 10

Mid market CLO league tables: Late flurry takes Wells Fargo top as Golub leads again with records tumbling
For the second year in a row, and for a fourth time in five years (when Creditflux’s CLO league tables began), Golub Capital and Wells Fargo finished atop the manager and arranger mid market CLO league tables, respectively

Blue Owl hires BlackRock veteran for private wealth role
Blue Owl Capital has hired a managing director and head of North American distribution from BlackRock

CLO managers show respect to their elders
Alongside lucrative new issues, managers also make time for refinancing and resetting old deals. Our data shows that, in 2021, mid-sized firms were the most effective at this balancing act