GoldenTree snaps up global award... again
Last year, GoldenTree was named Creditflux Global Manager of the Year. This year it repeated that achievement — but it also swooped for our US manager of the year and closed-end fund awards

Sound Point upsizes latest new Euro CLO
The deal matched the current market triple A tight for European new issues, at Euribor plus 133bps

Sound Point markets new Euro CLO with tightening mezz spreads
The manager is marketing is second new European deal for the year, with spreads showing a notable narrowing trend in the double As and double Bs

European resets price from Sound Point, Polus and Anchorage
Sound Point’s deal printed as the tightest of the trio

Sound Point’s latest CLO dramatically slashes European tights to lowest in four years
The transaction was the first full-stack European deal to achieve a total cost of debt below 179bps over Euribor in four years  

European double-Bs continue to narrow with new Sound Point CLO
Sound Point has priced its latest newshowed  issue CLO – its third new European deal of 2024, with year-to-date tight double-B spreads

Sound Point gets issuance flowing again in Europe
Sound Point Capital Management has won the race to price the next European deal, partnering with Jefferies on a new EUR 452.55m deal that sets the benchmark for triple-A coupons at 150 bps over Euribor.

Sound Point becomes 5th largest CLO manager as Assured deal completes
Sound Point announced the completion of its partnership with Assured Guaranty yesterday jumping Sound Point into position as 5th largest CLO manager in the world.

CLO rankings: manager AUM, advisory firm and trustees Q1 2023
Two acquisitions close to shake up the top and Dechert takes early lead over Milbank in manager counsel rankings

Sound Point to take on Assured's asset management business in new partnership
Assured Guaranty and Sound Point Capital Management have struck up a partnership, according to an announcement, which will make Sound Point the fifth largest CLO manager globally.

Sound Point holding CLO M&A talks which could catapult it to fifth-largest manager
Sound Point Capital Management is locked in talks with a large, global CLO manager over a deal that could take its CLO AUM north of $36 billion

Polus 2022 European CLO tops Fitch ESG ranking
Cairn CLO XV has scored the highest ESG score among Fitch-rated European CLOs

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

Euro CLO league tables: gear shift brings flurry of new issues before summer break
After a slow June, the European market picked up its pace in July with managers eager to price deals before the summer lull 

CLO arrangers take down triple As to get European deals completed
European CLO arrangers are taking down large chunks of triple A paper to get deals over the line amid market volatility, according to market sources. Others, meanwhile, have committed to investing in triple As to secure future mandates

We can cope with downgrades again

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

Sound Point breaks one month European CLO market silence as pipeline builds
After the longest pause in the European CLO primary market since December 2018, Sound Point has broken the silence with a static new issue while other managers are exploring static and print and sprints to get deals done

Sound Point explores European static CLO with turbo tranche
Sound Point Capital Management has opted to explore a static structure for its latest European CLO, in the latest sign of managers trying to be innovative to get the market moving

CSAM does the CLO awards double
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it

We’ll get through this awkward patch
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As

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

Euro CLO league tables: primary issuance shuts down amid extreme market volatility
European CLO issuance initially picked up in February with €7.82bn in total pricings, compared to just €2.44bn in January, before extreme market volatility preceding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine halted the primary market.

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