Traders eye expensive options as they look to get creative
Credit market volatility trades may look exceptionally expensive, but that is not stopping them being a prized tool for investors on a number of fronts — from hedging longer-term macro risks, through pre-March index roll positioning, to cross-asset relative value plays

Steele Creek fashions first new CLO in nearly three years
Steele Creek Investment Management staged a longawaited CLO comeback on Monday by printing its first new issue since July 2019

Napier Park prints triple As at 132bp in new US CLO
Napier Park Global issued its first CLO of the year on Thursd

Trinitas resets 2019 CLO in line with recent new issues
Trinitas Capital Management on Tuesday reset its 2019 CLO, Trinitas X via BNP Paribas, according to market sources

LCM tightens triple As on 2017 CLO with partial refi via Morgan Stanley
LCM Asset Management has partially refinanced a 2017 vintage CLO, cutting the cost of its triple A tranche

PennantPark prints mid market CLO with triple As at 170bp
PennantPark Investment Advisers on Friday priced its first middle market CLO of 2022

Neuberger Berman refis 2019 US CLO with fixed rate triple As
Neuberger Berman has teamed up with BNP Paribas to refinance the entire capital stack of its 2019 CLO named Neuberger Berman Loan Advisers CLO 34

Sculptor prices European CLO and establishes 92bp as triple A benchmark
European CLO new issue floodgates have opened with Sculptor Capital Management’s European CLO IX the latest deal to price, following the first four new issues of the year to price end of last week

Ucits at a glance: Robus claims top spot in 2021 after tight race
Ucits funds have ended 2021 on a high as 62% made positive returns in December

Barings and BNP Paribas team up for first European CLO reset of year
BNP Paribas has reset Barings Euro CLO 2015-1 with all tranches (bar the double Bs) pricing roughly in line with December resets.

Credit awash with volatility in first week but investors load up
It has been a volatile opening week to the year for credit, but one in which investors have allocated bullishly to credit funds

BNP Paribas bolsters CLO sales team with hire from DB
BNP Paribas has hired a Frankfurt-based CLO and ABS sales director

CIFC turns three-year CLO into five-year deal with reset
CIFC has turned its three-year reinvestment deal named CIFC Funding 2014-IV-R into a full five-year transaction with a reset via BNP Paribas

CLO 2022 Outlook: 2021 is hard act to follow, but CLO buyers have positives aplenty
New CLO issuance in 2022 will remain elevated but below 2021’s record numbers, banks agree. But there is no consensus among strategy desks on the volume of repricings to come, partly due to the unknown impact of the Sofr transition.   

Banks and loans to benefit in 2022 as safe havens dwindle
Safe havens and sector pitfalls are among some of the top considerations for portfolio managers this year, as a consensus forms that credit could suffer versus other asset classes

ESG template fires up hopes of CSO issuance
2021 may not have been a year of big volume in the synthetic bespoke market, but primary business is back, and decisive inroads into environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused issuance bode well for 2022

Points up front: Correlation between CDS and mixed martial arts
BNP Paribas clinched a big-name hire to its credit derivatives division in New York last month after poaching managing director Patrick Vickers from Credit Suisse.

CLO extremes will do well in '22 but mezz needs caution: BNP Paribas
The extreme parts of CLOs' capital structures will offer best value in 2022, but investors should be cautious on mezzanine tranches and consider hedges, say BNP Paribas strategists

Leisure and retail companies improve despite UK rates and travel rule noise
Easing of market tensions around the omicron covid variant have allowed traders to broadly mark single name credit spreads tighter on Wednesday, despite caution returning to indices over central bank policy and travel restrictions

Correction: ArrowMark, Octagon and Trimaran print five-year CLOs
ArrowMark Partners, Octagon Credit Investors and Trimaran Advisors each priced a five-year CLO on Monday

Three managers think alike with refis of two-year European CLOs
Three European CLO managers hit the primary market on Friday to print two-year refinancings. This deal profile has been popular of late with seven such deals pricing in little over a month

Blackstone uses CLOs as financing tool in new suite of deals
Blackstone Credit has added three non-traditional US CLOs to its collection this year

Invesco Euro CLO triple As leak wider to 99bp, but mezz tranches print tight
Invesco on Tuesday priced the 90th European CLO new issue of the year with Invesco Euro CLO VII. BNP Paribas arranged the €407.5 million deal

AGL issues fourth core CLO with low leverage ratio
AGL Credit Management has priced the fourth in its 'core' series of low-levered CLOs, pairing with BNP Paribas to print the deal

Loans will be winners in bearish year for credit: BNP Paribas
Floating rate loans are best positioned for a year of widening credit spreads, but high yield bonds will outperform investment grade and EM credit is set for losses, says BNP Paribas in its 2022 outlook