Apollo and Pimco buy ‘significant portion’ of Credit Suisse's securitised products group
The move has prompted a rally for Credit Suisse, which on Thursday unveiled a strategic review “designed to reduce risk-weighted assets and leverage exposure”

Credit funds at a glance (October 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
 

   

CLOs at a glance (October 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month  

LP round up: $2.7bn flows to 20 credit managers as investors battle PE overallocation
Investors faced huge headwinds in September with inflation, rising interest rates, and geopolitical turmoil, alongside the UK gilts sell-off at month end

Apollo reaches for bigger slice of pi(e) with 5% Diameter stake
Apollo Global Management has bought a 5% stake in credit fund and CLO manager Diameter Capital Partners, cementing the relationship between the firms

Europe welcomes four new CLOs in a day after nothing for one month
No issuance to speak of in a month, and then four CLOs come along at once 

Global CLO league tables - August 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - August YTD

LP round up: private credit takes big slice of inflows as 10% portfolio share projected for 2026
Institutional investors revealed nearly $4 billion allocations to credit funds in July, with recipients including Angelo Gordon, Apollo, Ares, BlackRock, Brookfield, CarVal, Comvest, Deerpath, KKR, Schroders and Sixth Street

Apollo invests $1 billion in IG CLOs, launches secondary solutions platform and cuts BDC fees
In its earnings call, Apollo highlighted the resilience of the CLO asset class, strong deployment in direct lending, upcoming reduction in management fees for its publicly traded BDC and the launch of a new secondaries and sponsor solutions platforn, seeded by Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Global CLO league tables - June 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - June YTD

Global CLO league tables - May 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May YTD

Quadruple winner Redding Ridge celebrates with new European CLO
Redding Ridge picked up four trophies in awards season (in contrast to one Premier League football team which is labouring in a similar pursuit) and it has struck while the iron is hot to print a new European CLO

LP round up: Apollo and Silver Rock win over $1 billion as pensions plough into private debt
Institutional investors allocated at least $2 billion to credit funds in April, according to Creditflux data, with Apollo and Silver Rock emerging as big winners

Global CLO league tables - February 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Feb YTD

Packaging company Schur is painful for European CLOs
The dramatic fall in loans taken out by Austrian flexible plastic packaging manufacturer Schur Flexibles has shocked CLO managers. The firm is hiring PJT Partners and Allen & Overy ahead of a potential restructuring

Credit funds at a glance (March 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Pemberton adds managing director in London
Pemberton has appointed a London-based managing director in its credit team

Credit funds at a glance (February 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Euro CLO league tables: Upstarts Jefferies and Palmer Square fall just short of market leaders
ABC as easy as 1, 2, 3: Apollo leads new issuance as Barclays and CVC emerge as overall leaders, despite the efforts of newcomers Jefferies and Palmer Square. The European CLO market had a record year in 2021 as overall issuance fell just €3.2 billion short of €100 billion, more than double the previous record set in 2017 of €45.7 billion and a 325% increase on the coronavirus-impacted market in 2020

Global 2021 CLO league tables
Global 2021 CLO league tables

Apollo promotes CLO specialist to managing director
Apollo Global Management has promoted a New York-based CLO specialist to managing director

Global CLO league tables - Nov 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Nov 2021 YTD

Telco and retailer gap wider as PE firms circle
Telecom Italia is one of the Monday credit market's biggest underperformers, in an otherwise finely poised start to the week

Apollo breaks into CLO co-placement agent role on first Euro third-party deal
Apollo has typically served as co-placement on its own Redding Ridge European CLOs, but on Thursday was co-placement agent on a HPS European CLO new issue