CLO prices drop under weight of massive secondary volumes while CDS rallies
CLO spreads have underperformed versus liquid credit instruments in the past week after a massive $2.3 billion of paper hit the secondary US CLO market. But that could create opportunities for investors.

Three new deals bring weekly US CLO reset volume to $3.9 billion
Three US CLO resets priced on Thursday, bringing weekly reset volume for the week to $3.9 billion across eight transactions

Lev loan index rule change proposed to meet Sofr switch
Leveraged loan index stakeholders are being asked for feedback on a proposal that would allow the inclusion of loans linked to Sofr and scrap a minimum spread rule

Global CLO trading lab: Seasoned equity prices lag as debt spreads level out
The CLO secondary market took a back seat to the surging primary market in August and September with secondary US CLO volume accounting for just 3.7% and 4.2% of the total US CLO market (primary and secondary volumes). But opportunities are there in CLO equity tranches

European CLO weekly volume passes €4 billion as HPS resets former Bardin Hill deal
European CLO weekly volume rose to over €4 billion on Friday, with HPS Investment Partners rounding off the week

What summer slowdown? Carlyle, Hayfin and Investcorp add €1.2 billion Euro CLO issuance
Europe’s CLO market has shown no sign of a summer slowdown in the first week of August as Hayfin and Investcorp rework 2020 deals and Carlyle refis 

AGL and Blackstone reset and upsize post-covid CLOs from 2020
AGL Credit Management and Blackstone Credit added to their respective 2020 CLO reset sprees on Monday, with both managers upsizing their post-covid deals

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

Euro CLO league tables: out with the old, in with the new as Jefferies leads way
Despite being a newcomer to the European CLO market this year, Jefferies has taken the market by storm and leads the way in overall European CLO issuance

Aegon and ICG partner with Citi for US CLO resets
Aegon USA Investment Management and Intermediate Capital Group each teamed up with Citi on Thurdsday to print a CLO reset

ICG resets 2017 Euro CLO with triple As at 89bp
Intermediate Capital Group has paired with Goldman Sachs to reset its 2017 European CLO, St Paul’s CLO VII, taking the manager’s 2021 volume over the €1 billion mark

Euro CLO league tables: cramming a year's worth of work in two months
It is no surprise the European CLO market has been experiencing fatigue at times this year with the last two months of issuance alone almost equalling issuance figures for the whole of 2020: last year €22.78 billion worth of European CLOs priced, while in March and April 2021, managers brought €21.48 billion to market

GoldenTree and Zais print US CLO refis
The CLO market absorbed $1.07 billion of refinancings on Friday as GoldenTree Loan Management and Zais Group became the latest managers to cut funding costs

Fair Oaks, PineBridge and Sculptor rework €1 billion in Euro CLO resets
Fair Oaks Capital, PineBridge Investments and Sculptor Capital Management all took to the European CLO reset market on Wednesday, in transactions that amounted to over €1 billion

Axa IM combines single As in European CLO refi
Deutsche Bank arranged the € 274.7 million transaction, which cuts cost of debt by 31.8 basis points

Beneath the triple C: resurfacing credits surpass divers as tide turns for CLOs
Upgrades above triple C overtook downgrades to that rating or below in February. Moody's or Standard & Poor's cut six corporate debt issuers to triple C or below in February, out of which just four can be found in CLO portfolios

It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter  

It's all relative: senior CLO tranches tighten 18% in Europe as CDS indices sit out rally

It's all relative: Euro CLO mezz rallies to follow month-long IG/HY compression
European credit suffered this week with Brexit talks between the UK and the EU dragging on and both sides conceding that a trade deal is unlikely to be reached by Sunday’s deadline. But European CLO tranches have held up reasonably well with mezzanine spreads tightening by almost 13% in December

Blackstone revisits Reese Park with post-pricing CLO upsize
Blackstone Credit has become the fourth CLO manager this year to upsize a CLO post-pricing. Reese Park initially priced on 16 October at $408 million and is set to close on 30 November at $510 million, with the addition of new debt tranches paying lower rates of interest

Global CLO b-wic round-up: double Bs lead the way as rally endures and drags equity with it
The CLO secondary market continued its hard rally last week as prices rose across the whole asset class with double B rated CLO bonds leading the charge tighter

Euro loan trading: CLO managers find a home for building specialist's downsized loan
CRH Europe issued a €700 million term loan B in November, which was downsized from €900 million. But still, it has proved popular with CLO managers with CLO-i indicating that CLOs bought €275.2 million of the loan

Global CLO round-up: Europe mops up demand, as Euribor hits the floor
The final stretch of the year began with a bang, with the first week of Q4 bringing $3.3 billion of CLO issuance in the US and €1.2 billion in Europe. But the resurgence in volumes was not the only talking point last week, with Europe coming into focus as spreads surfed tighter

AMMC returns to CLO primary market after 11-month hiatus
American Money Management Corporation yesterday became the 115^th active CLO manager in 2019 after pricing its first transaction since November last year

PineBridge refi shows steep term curve in European CLO market
PineBridge Investments has refinanced its 2016 vintage CLO named Euro Galaxy V, according to market sources