We’ll get through this awkward patch
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As

Wide yields mean high times again for corporate hybrids
Prolonged disruption in financial markets has painted an ever-bleaker picture for credit fund returns and flows in 2022

Think of the arb, say US CLO panelists after big loan drop
Far from being a cause for alarm, falling loan prices have brought a welcome opportunity in new CLO issuance for managers and investors, according to speakers at the Creditflux Symposium in London today

Macro drivers set to give lift to CDS tranche trading
Credit index tranches look to be on course for a busy year, with volumes robust so far in 2022, despite key relative value trading themes having not delivered so far

Nuveen new CLO brings triple As at market tights of 142bp
Nuveen Asset Management priced a new CLO on Wednesday, placing its triple A notes at the market tights of 142 basis points over Sofr

Octagon prints largest CLO in over two and a half years
Octagon Credit Investors priced a $610.2 million CLO on Thursday, its largest new issue deal since October 2018

142bp emerges as triple A benchmark spread as Blackstone prices new CLO
Blackstone Credit priced a new CLO on Wednesday, placing the senior triple A notes at Sofr plus 142 basis points

LCH extends credit index option product to buy side
BNP Paribas and JP Morgan are the first banks to offer client clearing of credit index options through LCH CDSClear

KKR prices CLO with unusual reinvestment-call lock profile
KKR has priced a rare CLO with a short reinvestment window but long non-call period

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

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

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

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