Carlyle and Citi continue reset wave with rework of 2019 US CLO
Carlyle Group last week reset its largest CLO from 2019, market sources said, once again in partnership with Citi, who acted as the sole arranger after having arranged both the original deal and its refi in 2021

Carlyle adds new US CLO
Carlyle Group priced one of the tighter US BSL prints thus far this year in partnership with Citi as the primary market kicked into overdrive with an array of deals

Captive equity is still an option as Carlyle raises fund
Despite predictions of poor returns, captive equity funds can still be raised. The latest manager to hit the market is Carlyle Group, the world’s largest CLO manager according to our 3Q23 Creditflux rankings. According to market sources, Carlyle is raising a half-billion-dollar equity fund, which is expected to be complete by the end of the year.

Carlyle Group prices fifth new CLO of 2023
Carlyle Group has priced its fifth new CLO of 2023 on Friday, joining Blackstone’s half-billion-dollar Bayswater Park deal from the same day with its own new US issue worth USD 497.725m

3Q23 manager rankings by AUM
Carlyle Group is now the largest CLO manager in the world, according to the latest update to our rankings of the CLO manager universe published today

Carlyle prices first CLO reset of 2023
Goldman Sachs arranged the reset of a late 2022 vintage Carlyle CLO

Easy gains of 2022 won’t be repeated but shorted-dated CLOs could still have upside
The latest trend to hit the US market is the pricing of short-dated CLOs. Palmer Square and BlackRock both priced CLOs with one-year reinvestment periods, and Nuveen printed a Symphony CLO with a two-year reinvestment period.

Vertical Capital Income fund changes name as Carlyle takes over and shifts focus to CLOs
Vertical Capital Income Fund is set to rebrand as Carlyle Credit Income Fund after a transaction appointing Carlyle Group as the fund's investment manager and shift the fund's investment mandate to CLOs closed on Friday

Three's the magic number for Carlyle as it prices new CLO
Carlyle priced its third CLO of the year today. Carlyle US CLO 2023-3, arranged by Barclays, is a new US CLO backed by broadly-syndicated loans.

Carlyle tightens its CLO triple A print over 10bp in one month
Carlyle Group has priced a new CLO via Goldman Sachs, and in the process tightened its triple A print over 10 basis points from its previous new issue in April

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

Tranches go subject as Carlyle readies first new US CLO in six months
Carlyle Group is readying its first new US CLO of the year and the deal's senior triple A notes went subject at Sofr plus 190 basis points

CLO market turns international as new investors land
The global CLO market attracted new investors over the first quarter of 2023, according to market sources, while others have moved across the capital stack or into different regions than those to which they have been accustomed

US CLO pipeline: Spreads and tenors disperse as six managers eye new issues
Dispersion has come to the fore in the US CLO market with higher tier managers able to price their triple As in the 180-185 basis points range and others up around 200bps. But this week’s pipeline shows there is some divergence in the length of CLOs coming to the market too

CLO market needs a deeper investor base, conference hears
CLOs are toughing through the fallout from this month's banking crisis, but speakers at Creditflux's CLO Investor Summit in New York on Wednesday bemoaned that the market's investor base is lacking depth

Large CLO investor sells three post-reinvestment anchor equity positions
Three control equity positions were on sale on Thursday at 9am EST (2pm GMT) in the same list. The bwic listing was made up of three 2017 US CLOs, all of which are post-reinvestment and have not been reset in the years since

CLO M&A hits new heights with anticipated Assured deal
Last year saw a record M&A volume centred on credit asset managers, with a study by Gapstow revealing the total assets under management of acquired firms was $326 billion, compared to $140 billion in 2021.

Loan amendment alert: Wellpet offers 10bp CSA
Wellpet has issued a loan amendment request with a view to including a 10 basis points credit spread adjustment (CSA), market sources say. Although this is an improvement on recent amendments it still falls short, according to CLO investors.

CLO rankings: manager AUM, advisory firm and trustees Q4 2022
As 2022 draws to a close manager consolidation through mergers and acquisitions have been balanced out by new market entrants to leave roughly the same number of managers that entered the year, at least for now.

Beneath the triple C: Winter is coming for CLOs as downgrades outstrip upgrades
Both US and European issuers have felt downward pressure from the rating agencies as we head towards the end of the year, with downgrades to triple C now firmly outpacing upgrades out of it.

Structured credit pair among 61 to earn promotion at Carlyle
Carlyle has promoted two members of its US CLO team among 61 new partners and managing directors 

Beneath the triple C: Stormy October hits CLOs with rising tide of downgrades
After a slight respite in the pace of downgrades over the summer for CLOs, October brought renewed momentum as macro-economic pressures - primarily high interest rate burdens for corporate borrowers and supply side inflation - became the recurring rationale

US CLO league tables: Usual suspects keep market rolling as Citi moves within $1 billion of BofA
October experienced $7.1 billion of US CLO issuance with over half of that priced by the managers that occupy one to eight in the US CLO new issue league tables

Carlyle and Octagon bring first reinvesting US BSL CLOs since 19 October
Carlyle Group and Octagon Credit Investors each priced a new US CLO on Friday, bringing the first reinvesting transactions backed by broadly syndicated loans to the market in nine days

Carlyle scores 225bp triple A print on new CLO due Friday
Carlyle Group has secured a 225 basis points triple A print on its new CLO named Carlyle US CLO 2022-6, which is expected to price on Friday