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

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

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

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.   

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

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

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

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

Nuveen cuts 2020 CLO funding costs by 40bp with refi
Nuveen Asset Management cut the funding costs of one of its 2020 CLOs by almost 40 basis points by refinancing the deal on Wednesday

Antares and Palmer Square give new life to legacy CLOs via resets
Antares Capital Management and Palmer Square Capital Management each reset a CLO on Tuesday, with the two deals worth a combined $964.8 million

Nochu returns to CLO new issues after two-year break
Norinchukin Bank made its long-awaited return to the CLO primary market last month, investing in US CLO triple A notes once more

Sofr transition timing puts CLO debt and equity at odds, says BNP Paribas
CLO investors look to have tough conversations ahead on the structure implications of the transition from Libor to Sofr, with BNP Paribas strategists noting CLO debt will benefit from an early move while equity tranches would do better to wait

Blackstone passes $5 billion in US CLOs this year with 10th new issue
Blackstone Credit teamed up with BNP Paribas on Friday to print its 10th US CLO of 2021, becoming the second manager in history to pass $5 billion annual issuance

US CLO pipeline: Go long! Refis fall from favour as AMMC looks to join list of 2021 issuers
The only record left to fall this year in US CLOs is 2017’s refinancing total of $102.8 billion with the market $6.3 billion shy. Yet this segment shows little interest to break more records with the pipeline filled with new issues and resets as longer tenured deals are preferred.

Medalist prices first new US CLO since January 2020
Medalist Partners has priced its first new US CLO since it took full control of Medalist Partners Corporate Finance (formerly known as JMP Credit Advisors) from JMP Group in July, ending a 21-month break from the CLO primary market

CLO refi and reset volumes surge with $2.3 billion priced on Friday
CLO refi and reset volumes surged on Friday with $2.3 billion priced across the US market, according to market sources. Brigade Capital Management, MidOcean Credit Partners and New Mountain Capital reset regular-way CLOs, Blackstone Credit scored a regular CLO refi, Sculptor Capital Management refinanced a bond-heavy CLO, and Ivy Hill Asset Management reset a middle market CLO

Invesco, Napier Park and Oaktree refinance 2019 CLOs
Three CLO managers - Invesco, Oaktree Capital Management and Napier Park Global - have each refinanced a 2019 CLO, with the three deals totalling over $1.5 billion

GoldenTree, Steele Creek and TCW hit primary CLO market to rework legacy deals
GoldenTree Loan Management, Steele Creek Investment Management and TCW Group all took to the CLO primary market on Friday to rework legacy CLO transactions