Beneath the triple C: downgrade rate slows as $8 billion of CLO loans tumble
May offered some respite to CLO portfolios as corporate downgrades to triple C were reduced heavily - affecting just $6.67 billion of US CLO paper and €1.09 billion of European CLO portfolios

McDermott slips into bankruptcy with CLOs holding almost $1 billion
42 CLO managers hold $957.6 million of the debt of McDermott International, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday. Under the plan, McDermott’s term loan and revolving lenders will receive 94% of McDermott’s reorganised equity and $500 million in take back senior secured term loans. Term loan claims are expected to recover 84%, according to a disclosure statement 

US loan trading: CLO managers on cloud nine after Ultimate Software allocations
CLO managers took down about 27% of Ultimate Software's loans in April, when the cloud operator issued its $2.3 billion first lien term loan due 2026, according to CLO-i

US CLO league tables: CSAM dominates globally but Octagon takes US lead
Octagon Credit Investors clinched the top spot in the US broadly syndicated loan CLO market by a mere $129,000 from Credit Suisse Asset Management. 

US CLO league tables: Octagon and Citi lead the way
April was the busiest month yet in the US CLO market this year with $16.42 billion in transactions, beating February by around $500 million. 

US CLO league tables: heavyweights dust off and jump back in the ring
Competition has prevailed after a tough quarter for the CLO market, in which banks offloaded their carry-ons from last year

LCM prices second consecutive CLO transaction with Morgan Stanley
LCM Asset Management and Morgan Stanley have teamed up for a second consecutive CLO transaction this year

US CLO round-up: Golub orbits curve as managers double up
A breakthrough regarding Japanese risk retention rules ended last week on a high note for CLOs as the Japan Financial Services Agency has announed that CLOs can sit outside the remits of its securitisation regulations

LCM partially refinances 2015 CLO with triple As at 124bp
LCM Asset Management has teamed up with Morgan Stanley to partially refinance the senior debt of its 2015 CLO LCM XIX

US CLO league tables: new issues drive volumes as Morgan Stanley and Citi occupy top two spots
Two months into 2019 and the US CLO market looks very different to previous years, as the balance of deal origination has changed

Global 2019 YTD CLO league tables at a glance
Global 2019 YTD CLO league tables at a glance

MUFG prices its first CLO for Golub
MUFG priced its first deal for Golub Capital Partners on Friday, according to market sources

US CLO round-up: Anchorage keeps primary open as debutants and newcomers fill pipeline
Anchorage Capital shored up the CLO market this week against an untroubled horizon as the sole manager to price a new issue, while TCI Capital Management priced the first refinancing of the year as Creditflux went to press.

Ares opts for low leverage as it prices $444.15 million CLO reissue
Ares Management has reissued its 2013 vintage deal, Ares XXVIII, producing one of the lowest levered CLOs of the year in the process

CLO round-up: reset triple As price apart on divergent portfolios
CLO spreads have been volatile of late with seemingly no consistency in triple A CLO prints from deal to deal. In a reset-heavy week, BlackRock and Marathon Asset Management were positioned at opposite ends of the spectrum

CSAM prices its second bond-heavy US CLO transaction
Credit Suisse Asset Management has priced the second transaction in its ‘One Eleven’ series of bond-heavy CLOs

Wells Fargo prepares to price its 11th mid-market CLO of the year
A $444.49 million mid-market CLO is expected to price on 13 September

CLO manager Apex chooses refi over reset in $434 million deal
Sources say that Apex Credit Partners refinanced a 2014 CLO on Friday

TIAA secures 128bp senior print as it prices second CLO
TIAA Global Asset Management is understood to have priced its second broadly-syndicated CLO, securing a triple-A print of 128 basis points over Libor.