Euro CLO league tables: You wait all month for a pricing and then three come along at once
Two CLO managers chose April to price their first CLOs of the year. Three European CLOs priced last month as the primary market opened following a coronavirus-enforced closure in mid-March

Global CLO league tables - April 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2020 YTD

Apollo earmarks $20 billion for dislocation fundraising over 12 months
Apollo's returns for corporate credit, structured credit and direct origination in the first quarter were down 8.3%, 14.7% and 4.8%, respectively, but the firm is looking to launch various credit strategies, including capital solutions, dislocation strategies and distressed strategies, that it “expects to accumulate $20 billion over the next year”

Credit funds at a glance

A round-up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Apollo ups stake in Athene to 35% through stock deal
Apollo Global Management is doubling its stake in Athene Holding to around 35% by exchanging $1.2 billion of common equity and buying $350 million extra of Athene stock

Global CLO league tables - February 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - February 2020 YTD

Euro CLO league tables: three new issues make January just right
Three European managers braved the waters in January to kickstart the CLO primary market

Credit funds at a glance

Apollo saves 20bp on triple A print by going for short-dated euro CLO reset
Apollo Global Management yesterday priced a short two-year euro CLO reset with the triple A notes printing 20 basis points tighter of regular way CLOs, according to market sources

Apollo goes short-dated route for forthcoming European CLO reset
Apollo Global Management is marketing a short reset of its 2014 CLO named ALME Loan Funding III - but price talk is inside a new issue of similar tenor

Apollo CLO and CSO specialists earn promotion to partner
Apollo Global Management has promoted two members of its global structured credit team, according to market sources

Apollo fills gap in European direct lending team with senior hire from Alcentra
Apollo Global Management has filled a void in its European direct lending team by hiring Alcentra’s Natalia Tsitoura, according to market sources

Euro CLO league tables: GSO turbos charges its lead over CVC
GSO Capital Partners kept hold of the lead in the European CLO manager league tables thanks to its turbo charged reset of Holland Park

Global CLO b-wic round-up: volumes jump as investors get their triple A fix
The US CLO secondary market brought over $1.2 billion in total listings last week with the main driver behind last week’s supply being an increase in US CLO triple A bonds and an anchor equity position.

Redding Ridge does away with single Bs as it markets European CLO
Redding Ridge Asset Management is doing away with single Bs once again as it brings its third European CLO to market this year, known as RRE 3 Loan Management

Apollo fee earnings rise 9% in Q2 as structured credit boosts portfolio
Apollo Global Management’s credit portfolio increased 4% quarter-over-quarter to $201 billion, driven by growth in affiliated life insurance firm Athene, as well as corporate credit and structured credit

Global CLO b-wic round-up: control equity hits the market as secondary market picks up
The CLO secondary market in both Europe and the US brought healthy volumes last week. There was €174.9 million listed in the European CLO secondary market, while the US returned a with just over $600 million in CLO b-wics. 

Euro CLO league tables: three debutants, but familiar faces stay top
June brought €3.4 billion of European CLO issuance between seven new issues and two refinancings. Of the seven new issue European CLOs priced last month, three were from debut managers to the continent 

Euro CLO round-up: after three-year hiatus, two Apollo/Redding Ridge CLOs come along at once
The Japanese bid for CLO triple A notes is taking a break for at least a few weeks, according to market sources, effectively removing a key contributor to the benchmark levels set this year. 

CLOs at a glance

A round-up of CLO performance

Redding Ridge does without single B debt as it prices European CLO
RRE 2 has an unusual debt structure for a European transaction, with the CLO opting against a single B tranche. At the opposite end of the structure, the triple As are issued in senior and junior tranches which priced at 113 and 150 basis points over Euribor respectively

Permira adds hire to start credit opportunities business
Permira Debt Managers is building out a unit in London to invest in special situations and credit opportunities and has hired a distressed and high yield specialist to help establish the business

Redding Ridge crosses Atlantic for new euro CLO
Redding Ridge Asset Management - the capitalised manager vehicle (CMV) launched by Apollo Global Management - priced its first European CLO on Friday

US pension commits $100 million to Apollo's hybrid private credit/private equity fund
Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System has mandated $100 million to a multi-strategy fund managed by New York-based Apollo Global Management