Carlyle names co-founder as interim CEO as Lee steps down
Carlyle Group’s chief executive officer Kewsong Lee has stepped down from this role and the board of directors, effective immediately

CLOs at a glance (August 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Quarterly rankings: Carlyle climbs to top of pack with CBAM boost
Carlyle Group has cemented itself as the largest manager globally, following its acquisition of fellow CLO manager CBAM

CLOs at a glance (July 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
 
 

   

Euro CLO league tables: short on deals but high on drama as new issuance race tightens up
For the second straight month, European CLO volume was below €2 billion, making it the first time there has been back-to-back months of less than €2 billion issued since November and December 2020

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

Euro loan slide hits ramped warehouses as Carlyle eyes print and sprint deal
European loans tumbled in May, leaving CLO warehouses under pressure and causing a slowdown in primary issuance

Carlyle prepares to sprint after taking plunge with "unramped" European CLO
Carlyle Group has produced what is believed to be a rare print-and-sprint CLO in Europe

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

Carlyle closes CBAM transaction to become largest CLO manager in the world
Carlyle Group has closed a deal to buy the assets of CBAM and has become the largest CLO manager in the world

Arb work pays off
With day-one arbitrage alone delivering projected CLO cash-on-cash returns of 20-25%, 2021 may have been the best year ever for equity investors — at least until CLO spreads began to widen  

Quarterly rankings: Wave of acquisitions reshapes CLO market
A wave of acquisitions and consolidation hit the CLO market in the first quarter of 2022, although the ripples have yet to alter Creditflux’s manager rankings

Carlyle hits $4.6 billion hard cap on second global credit opps fund
With leverage, Carlyle Credit Opportunities Fund II has around $6 billion of capital to deploy

CBAM: star power, friends in insurance, and doing things 'my way'
"And now the end is here, and so I face that final curtain... I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and every highway, And more, much more
I did it, I did it my way". Sinatra could easily have been thinking of CBAM when he penned these lyrics. We look back at how a group of experienced CLO officials came together to launch a mega player in the CLO business in no time at all 

Packaging company Schur is painful for European CLOs
The dramatic fall in loans taken out by Austrian flexible plastic packaging manufacturer Schur Flexibles has shocked CLO managers. The firm is hiring PJT Partners and Allen & Overy ahead of a potential restructuring

European CLO market gets underway with two refis, one reset and bubbling pipeline
Managers priced two European CLO refis and one European CLO reset on Thursday as Barings, Blackstone and Carlyle all reworked deals

Ares expands into European real estate debt with Carlyle hire
Ares has expanded its presence in European real estate debt with the appointment of former Carlyle official as partner and head of the real estate debt team

Global 2021 CLO league tables
Global 2021 CLO league tables

CLOs at a glance (January 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Global CLO league tables - Nov 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Nov 2021 YTD

Carlyle prints five-year European CLO as it slides into fifth place in league tables
Carlyle Group has printed the 10th European CLO with reinvestment longer than five years

Everyone’s ramping

Carlyle sets new European CLO triple A benchmark as prints drop below 100bp
99 basis points over Euribor is the new triple A benchmark after Carlyle Group printed its second European new issue CLO of the year 

Global CLO league tables - Aug 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Aug 2021 YTD

An alternative way of looking at CLO overlap
Analysing CLO collateral to look for overlap is critical for any CLO investor, but it is normally done either within a portfolio of CLOs or by bilaterally comparing two managers. In one of its latest research pieces, Moody’s Analytics has taken a different approach