Pimco CLO ahead on judges' scorecards with best triple-A punch since return
Pacific Investment Management Company has priced its third Balboa CLO since re-entering the ring as a manager in late 2020, bringing its deals under management to $1.2 billion  

US CLO pipeline: newcomers look to follow Beach Point's lead by pricing before year-end
Beach Point Capital Management became the latest debut issuer in the US CLO market on Friday, and Sycamore Tree Capital Partners and Putnam Investments are set to join it    

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

Two west coast managers bring first new CLOs of 2021 via Morgan Stanley
Two California-based CLO issued their first new CLOs of the year on Thursday with Morgan Stanley arranging both transactions

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

LP round-up: $2.6 billion flows into 26 credit managers
A stuck ship in the Suez Canal may have prevented others from getting through one of the world's busiest waterways in March, but allocations to credit funds were much more free flowing as investors poured over $2.6 billion into the hands of credit managers

US CLO league tables: new issue rankings go to wire as post-pricing upsizes pop up
The new issue US CLO rankings are tightly contested with JP Morgan leading Citi by just $641 million with one month left of the year. Even in December's typically slower weeks this is a closeable gap 

LP round up: Monroe and Angelo Gordon beat 25 for direct lending mandate, as private credit plans brew
US public pension funds have disclosed $1.2 billion in commitments to credit focused strategies

Pimco prices first CLO in 13 years
Pacific Investment Management Company has made a long-awaited return to US CLOs after pricing its first since 2007

Credit fundraising: Dubai manager gets in on the act as direct lending takes off
Shuaa launches credit fund in the Gulf as Ares, Contingency, HPS and Perceptive are among those to close billion-plus funds

CLO pipeline: fixed income giants plan debut 2.0s with Morgan Stanley
Two large fixed income managers are pre-marketing debut 2.0 CLOs

Pimco pre-markets comeback US CLO with new PM at helm
Pimco is returning to CLO management after a 13-year absence with a recently-appointed official expected to oversee the deal

Credit fundraising: managers build homes for real estate credit funds
The “largest ever real estate credit fund” was one of the fundraising highlights last month as Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies IV fund reached $8 billion on its final close

Barings and PGIM win loan and structured credit mandates as pension puts £2.7bn in credit
The firms will manage global syndicated loans, securitised credit, emerging market debt and global high yield credit for Border to Coast Pension Partnership's £2.7 billion ($3.43 billion) multi-asset credit fund 

LP round up: horseshoe does the trick for Pimco and other distressed managers
Institutional investors poured $2.7 billion into credit this week through 14 managers, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux

LP round-up: mighty Oaks win $1 billion apiece from Calpers
Credit investors allocated over $3 billion to 18 credit managers this week across a wide range of strategies

Past returns: Bond king’s exit ends CLO refis
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported on a market absorbing the consequences of ‘bond king’ Bill Gross leaving Pimco, the firm he co-founded.

Fresh ideas blow in from the west
As Creditflux hosted its first conference in California, the hub of US innovation, it was no surprise that new ideas such as applicable margin resets and high triple-C buckets were on the agenda

US loan veteran MacLean to retire from Pimco
Pimco loan portfolio manager Beth MacLean will be retiring from the firm in March, a spokesperson for the company firms

New generation of US CLO managers battle to join industry top ranks
The US CLO manager base is growing at its fastest rate for years, with new firms springing up all over the country to issue these transactions

Pimco plans CLO management return after 12-year absence
Pimco is lining up a return to CLO management, over a decade after its last deal. The Newport Beach-based firm has been absent from the primary market since pricing Portola in November 2007.

Points up front: Producing the perfect CLO
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s head of CLO issuance Asif Khan directed a thought-provoking question to Pimco’s Loren Sageser at Creditflux West last month.

Credit funds at a glance

Past returns: short and sweet
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported on Pimco emerging as a major buyer of triple A-rated US CLO tranches

Pimco generates listed opportunistic energy credit fund
Pimco is eyeing the energy sector for a new opportunistic credit fund, according to US regulatory filings.