Invesco matches PGIM and Ares US CLO triple As at 144bp
Invesco priced its second new issue CLO this year yesterday, according to market sources as it paired with Morgan Stanley to print Invesco 2022-2

Global CLO league tables - April 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April YTD

We’re drifting apart
Everyone’s issuing US CLOs these days and it is tempting to believe the crowd of managers is blending into one. However, overall portfolio overlap has dropped to 37.7% across 2021 CLOs  

CarVal ties in climate landmark with first CLO of 2022
CarVal CLO Management highlighted ESG criteria as it brought its first CLO of the year - and also the first since the firm's buyout by AB

BlackRock Euro CLO set to price, with KKR and ICG in line and 115bp emerging as triple A benchmark
BlackRock is expected to price a European CLO issue today via Bank of America. The immediate CLO pipeline is thin, but KKR is marketing a deal via Morgan Stanley and ICG is marketing via Citi

GoldenTree adds single B tranche to new CLO for first time since February
GoldenTree Loan Management priced a new CLO on Thursday, becoming the first manager to include a single B-rated liability tranche since before the Ukraine invasion

Morgan Stanley prints new CLOs for Oaktree, Octagon and Voya
Morgan Stanley priced three new issue CLOs on Friday worth a combined $1.36 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

Fidelity places triple A notes at 133bp in latest new CLO
Fidelity Investments priced its first new CLO of the year this week, placing the deal's triple A notes at 1.82 basis points tight of the 10-day average

CLO mezz investors are homing in on documentation: Morgan Stanley
European CLO mezzanine investors paid close attention to documentation over the past 12 months, with junior overcollateralisation test criteria, weighted average life extesions and approval for collateral quality key areas of focus, say Morgan Stanley strategists

Fixed-rate CLO tranches emerge ahead of rate rises
Floating rate benchmarks — whether Sofr or Libor — have risen sharply this year ahead of interest rate hikes in the US, and that has coincided with a flurry of new issue CLOs that have incorporated fixed-rate debt tranches

Gulf Stream builds on Apollo support with US CLO
Gulf Stream Asset Management priced its latest CLO on Friday with Apollo Global providing co-manager duties

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

Park Avenue prints first new CLO in over six months
Park Avenue Institutional Advisers on Friday priced its first new CLO in over six months

PGIM becomes third manager this year to reset 2015 Euro CLO
PGIM has paired with Morgan Stanley to reset its 2015 deal Dryden 39

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

PGIM switches 2019 CLO to Sofr with refi
PGIM has shifted the liability stack of its 2019 CLO named Dryden 80 to pay off Sofr by refinancing the deal on Friday

Dam breaks as first fully Sofr-CLOs shed light on price discovery
AB, Palmer Square Capital Management and New York Life Investment Management on Friday became the first CLO managers of deals with a full capital stack linked to Libor replacement rate Sofr, shedding light on the price discovery process after weeks of speculation

Blackstone 2021 CLO volume tops $8.5 billion with 16th new issue
Blackstone Credit returned to the CLO primary market yet again on Friday to print its 16th new issue of 2021

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.   

Octagon and Pimco tap CLO refi market
Octagon Credit Investors and Pacific Investment Management Company each turned to the CLO refi market on Thursday resulting in just short of $800 million pricing

Voya cuts CLO costs across stack with 2019 reset
Voya has reset a US CLO it printed in 2019, slightly increasing the size of the deal and shaving the price of every debt tranche in the capital structure

Barings prices short-dated reset of 2016 CLO
Barings priced a reset of Barings 2016-II last night, according to market sources, and opted for a short-dated 2.1 year reinvestment period

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

Oak Hill resets 2016 European CLO via Morgan Stanley
Oak Hill Advisors has reworked its 2016 European CLO Oak Hill European CLO V