Fortress prices middle market deal with CP reference rate
Fortress Credit Opportunities VIII CLO features a senior tranche that references both SOFR and a CP rate

HPS moves into mid market CLO structures
HPS Investment Partners priced a new middle market CLO on Monday, the first transaction from the firm backed by private credit assets

Audax becomes first manager of 2023 to reset a CLO
Audax Private Debt has become the first manager of 2023 to complete a CLO reset, teaming with Bank of America to rework its 2020 middle market deal named Audax Senior Debt CLO 4

KKR extends static CLO streak with second consecutive deal
KKR Credit has priced a second static CLO in a row, pairing with Goldman Sachs on the $435 million deal named KKR Static CLO II

Empower and Muzinich become US CLO market's first debut managers in six months
Empower Capital Management and Muzinich & Co became the US CLO market's first debut managers since February by printing their inaugural deals on Friday

US CLO pipeline: new faces appear amid tightening price guidance
After many months, the US CLO pipeline is bursting with new life as two debutants market their inaugural deals – Empower’s Empower 2022-1 and Muzinich’s 1988 CLO 1 

CLO debutants storm into US for first time since February as two managers market deals
The theme of first-time managers entering the US CLO market is set for a comeback, with Empower Capital Management and Muzinich marketing debut new issue transactions

Crescent prints first reinvesting CLO since November
Crescent Capital Group has priced its first reinvesting CLO of 2022

Position cutting tames market rally and strategists warn on primary impact
Caution is the watchword across financial markets on Tuesday, with the strong recent run giving way to hedging and position cutting ahead of a much-anticipated US inflation reading on Wednesday

Irradiant splits US CLO triple A tranches with two non-call periods
Irradiant Partners issued its first US CLO of the year today via Goldman Sachs with a longer non-call periods for one of the triple A tranches

Russia oil ban accord unites markets in sell off
EU leaders’ compromise agreement on banning Russian oil imports by sea has presented a united front few may have thought possible only days ago. But financial markets have not reacted positively, with risk assets selling off as the euro slumps and oil hits its highest level since March

CSAM prints US CLO with triple As paying 153bp
Credit Suisse Asset Management has priced a new CLO with senior triple A notes yielding 153 basis points over Sofr

Generate adopts unusual non-call structure for new CLO as triple As hit 160bp
Generate Advisors has priced a new CLO with an unusual non-call structure

Sculptor prints first new US CLO of 2022
Sculptor has issued its first new CLO of 2022, teaming up with JP Morgan to print the transaction

Flurry of US CLOs print as Barclays boosts CLO issuance with Brigade and Bain deals
Barclays has brought over $906 million of issuance to the market, printing deals for Bain Capital Credit and Creditflux’s newly crowned US CLO manager of the year Brigade Capital Management

KKR readies three-year CLO as loans start to tighten
KKR is readying a new CLO with three years of reinvestment capability

Antares upsizes billion-dollar CLO in third-largest primary transaction of 2022
Antares Capital reset its 2018-2 CLO via Deutsche Bank on Thursday, in the third-largest primary market transaction of the year at $1.06 billion

Dispersion returns at wide end as credit deterioration extends
Credit spreads are back to their widest since mid-October - and approaching the year's extremes - amid a second straight session of sharp deterioration

Maranon prints first new issue of year with Wells Fargo
Maranon Capital on Monday evening priced its first new issue CLO of the year, via Wells Fargo

Palmer Square's Euro CLO AUM rockets to €1.8 billion in just 14 months
Palmer Square Capital Management has kept strong momentum with its European CLO ambitions after pricing its second European static CLO of the year on Friday via JP Morgan

How's this for Stratas? HPS returns to US CLO issuance with triple C-flex deal
HPS Investment Partners priced a rare CLO with an elevated triple C basket on Monday as it marks its first new US CLO of any kind in over two years

Global CLO trading lab: Octagon CLO comes out top in CLO double B spike
Double B-rated bonds made up 40% of the European and US CLO secondary markets last week. $222 million of US CLO double B bonds were on sale and a further €105 million of European CLO double B items were listed

Single names make big gains as indices dither
Single name CDS in the US and Europe have strongly outperformed from the start of the week, rallying sharply and across most of the credit universe despite direcctionless trading for indices

Deerpath makes tracks in CLO primary for first time in 2021
Deerpath Capital Management has returned to the CLO primary market for the first time in 2021, printing a $362.9 million new issue named Deerpath Capital CLO 2021-1

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