Credit drives strong returns for five of the largest asset managers in the business
Carlyle is close to hitting its ambitious fundraising target; direct lending has been kind to Ares; and Och-Ziff has decided to shed its US CLO risk retention stakes after exiting its financing agreements

Not a bad time to try your hand at CLOs

Carlyle issues new Euro CLO with tightest triple As for over one month
Carlyle Group issued its second new European CLO of 2018 yesterday, with the tightest triple A print in over one month

Euro CLO league tables: 2018 volumes hit €22.6 billion after flurry of deals in June
The first two quarters of this year have delivered €22.6 billion worth of CLO issuance in Europe, almost matching the €22.7 billion that was issued in the first half 2017

Carlyle markets its second new European CLO of the year
Carlyle Group has begun marketing a European CLO and is set to join GSO Capital Partners and PGIM as the only firms to price two new European CLOs in 2018

Carlyle teams with Natixis to price European CLO triple As at 79bp
Carlyle has become the first to price Euro CLO spreads below 80 basis points since May following a €508 million reissue

Carlyle and Oppenheimer opt for interval fund structure as part of JV
The new private credit fund will invest at least 80% across loans and structured credit (Including CLOs), opportunistic credit, direct lending and liquid credit, SEC filings reveal

Euro CLO league tables: Carlyle and GSO vie for top spot
April has proved to be a strong month for Europe as nearly €5 billion of volumes have been produced in the last month

Euro league tables: Permira and Voya join the CLO bonanza
There’s been €10.5 billion of CLO issuance in the first quarter of 2018 with a debuting manager and a re-debuting manager adding their names to the growing list of CLO issuers

Structured credit specialists seek future-proofing in direct lending
At the turn of the last credit cycle, structured credit recovered spectacularly – but credit managers today seem to be gravitating towards private credit as the area to pick up excess returns in a downturn

B-wic round-up: mid market CLOs find new homes in secondary market
The US secondary CLO market has had another eventful week as $908.2 million worth of CLO notes were made available, out of which $693.2 million, or 76.3%, traded successfully

New wave of CLO funds emerge as managers capitalise on tight spreads
Credit managers have raised an abundance of capital in the last few months with the aim of stocking up on their CLO investments

Large slices of recently priced senior CLO debt go up for sale
€107 million of senior CLO debt of recently priced European deals has appeared on a b-wic

European CLO round-up: Carlyle and Investcorp share reset record
Much like its counterpart in US, the European CLO market is off to a speedy start with two resets and a refi – generating total volumes of €1.5 billion

European CLO spreads grind tighter as Carlyle prices with triple As at 73bp
The manager priced its first CLO transaction of the year on Friday, according to market sources

Euro league tables: Citi tops rankings in a year of growth for the CLO market
50 new issue CLOs, 39 active managers and four debutants: Creditflux analyses the revival of the European CLO market last year

Carlyle CLO price talk suggests spread tightening is set to continue in 2018
European CLO liability tightening looks set to continue into the new year, as price talk for Carlyle's forthcoming reset deal is announced

Carlyle prepares its first CLO transaction of 2018
Carlyle Group plans to begin its CLO business this year with a €454.25 million reset

Carlyle raises more than $800 million for global CLO-focused fund
Carlyle's newest fund will invest in CLOs backed by US and European senior secured corporate loans actively managed by third parties

Carlyle re-issues 2015 European deal for its 20th CLO transaction of the year
Carlyle Group has priced the European CLO re-issue with the lowest funding costs of 2017. The deal is Europe's largest 2.0 CLO, according to CLO-i data.

Carlyle joins exclusive list of Euro CLO managers to break 80bp triple A threshold
Carlyle Group priced its third new issue European CLO of the year yesterday

Carlyle markets its third European CLO of the year
Carlyle has hired  a bank to arrange its third CLO in Europe this year, in what is its seventh CLO transaction of 2017 

2017 PGIM deal tops ranking of best-performing European CLOs
A PGIM-managed 2017 deal, Dryden 48 Euro CLO, made its first equity distribution in August, with the €6 million payment pushing the deal to the top of our CLO performance rankings for the month

Update: European CLO league tables
Barclays, the leading arranger of European CLOs this year, has a lead of €530 million at the top of the 2017 league tables (as of the end of August)

Marathon leads the pack to top US CLO performance tables
Recently refinanced CLOs top our ranking of the deals with the highest equity distributions over the last week with Marathon Asset Management leading the way