Diameter to round out business with move into CLOs as it wins Apollo and Corbin support
Apollo Global Management and Corbin Capital are among the investors to provide the bond-flex CLO manager with equity seed capital to launch a new regular-way CLO business

Redding Ridge prints fourth-largest new CLO of the year at $706.6 million
Redding Ridge Asset Management priced the fourth-largest new issue CLO of the year 

Credit funds at a glance (June 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Redding Ridge cuts triple C exposure with reset of debut CLO
Redding Ridge Asset Management reset its 2018 CLO RR 1 on Friday, cutting its Moody's Caa concentration from 8.9% to 3.03%, and its S&P CCC concentration from 10.1% to just 3.54% in the process

Mid market CLO league tables: Antares and Wells Fargo press reset to lead market
Following March's $5.87 billion, the busiest month of mid market CLO issuance since at least 2016, April felt like a quiet month for mid market CLOs with $2.26 billion pricing across three new issues, two resets and one partial refinancing

Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD

Structurers tempted by buy-side perks amid CLO bonanza
Do you have experience structuring CLOs? If the answer is yes, then your skills are in demand, with asset managers keen to add CLO capital markets specialists amid the onslaught of CLO transactions that have taken place this year

Apollo poaches two US CLO structurers as sell-side exodus continues
Apollo Global Management has snapped up US CLO structurers from Bank of America and Barclays in what is fast amounting to mass migration away from CLO origination roles

Big US CLO investor crystalises gains with $101 million mezz sale
A well-known CLO investor has emerged as a repeat seller of CLO tranches this year, with sources indicating the firm has been monetising gains it made from purchases over the past year

Mid market CLO league tables: Billion dollar reset and tech CLO kick-start issuance
Mid-Market springs to life as winter winds down

Credit fundraising: ESG centre stage as capital pours into new strategies
Sustainability was the watchword for fundraising in February, amid a flurry of fund launches as well as first closes for impact funds and sustainable bond funds

Global CLO b-wic round-up: 2020 deals trade at premium
As the primary CLO market continues to grind tighter, the secondary market is holding steady, but last year's vintages are trading well as they near the end of their call-locks

Apollo credit assets rocket 50% with anticipated fundraising hike after Black investigation
Apollo Global Management's credit assets rocketed 52% over 2020 to $329 billion - and the firm predicts third-party fundraising to “build significantly” in the first quarter, following the conclusion of Dechert's investigation into chief executive officer Leon Black

MidCap prints largest CLO transaction for 12 months with $1.2 billion reset
MidCap, the middle market affiliate of Apollo, has priced the largest CLO primary transaction in almost exactly 12 months, printing a reset of its huge $1.2 billion mid market CLO named Woodmont 2017-2

At least 2020 wasn’t dreadful for CLOs
Last year’s downturn was another in which CLOs survived and in many cases thrived as active management and Libor floors helped managers deliver 13%-plus returns to equity

They said it: "I am extraordinarily proud of the firm I have helped build"
Apollo chief executive officer Leon Black announces he is stepping down.

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US lower mezz trades strong, but European piece softens
CLO investors have had no chance to catch their breath after a historic 2020 as US CLO secondary volume reached $3.3 billion and European secondary listings topped €1 billion in January

CLO pipeline: 2020 absentees join new issue rush
The CLO pipeline is growing by the minute as managers prepare their first new issues of the year after varying lengths out of the market

US CLO spreads grind tighter with Gulf Stream five-year deal
Gulf Stream Asset Management has priced its third CLO since refashioning itself for the 2.0 era, bringing its total CLOs under management up to $1.4 billion

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub makes it four in row and Wells Fargo returns to summit
For the fourth year in a row Golub Capital was the most prolific mid market CLO manager, while Wells Fargo led the mid market CLO arranger league tables for the third time in the last four years

US CLO league tables: AGL and JP Morgan topple leaders in new issuance, but Apollo and Citi maintain overall dominance
Only 13 months after setting up shop, AGL Credit Management vaulted itself to the top of the US CLO new issue league tables in 2020

Global 2020 CLO league tables
Global 2020 CLO league tables 

Redding Ridge prices its largest CLO of 2020 with first five-year deal post-covid
Redding Ridge Asset Management priced its sixth - and largest - new CLO of 2020 on Friday, naming the $520.71 million transaction RR 12

Global CLO b-wic round-up: junior tranches trade above par as US volumes reach $45bn
A busy week of over $1.4 billion of US CLO secondary bonds and €290 million of European CLO paper gave light to CLO spreads across the capital structure continuing their push towards pre-covid levels

US CLO league tables: new issue rankings go to wire as post-pricing upsizes pop up
The new issue US CLO rankings are tightly contested with JP Morgan leading Citi by just $641 million with one month left of the year. Even in December's typically slower weeks this is a closeable gap