Carlyle shoots to top of issuance leaderboard with huge seventh US CLO
Carlyle Group is the CLO manager with the highest US issuance volume so far this year after becoming the first firm to print seven new CLOs

Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD

US CLO league tables: CSAM and JP Morgan refi run leaves rivals behind
Credit Suisse Asset Management and JP Morgan have been leading the US CLO manager and arranger league tables, respectively, since the start of the year. And the two CLO giants are showing no signs of letting up

CLO pipeline: Birch Grove and Fort Washington dish out first 2021 deals as Carlyle goes for sevenths
CLO investors can feast on a range of deals in the new issue market over the next month. 

The Last Tranche with Carlyle's Basmadjian: We are in expansion phase of new credit cycle
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Carlyle's Lauren Basmadjian and Creditflux's Hugh Minch discuss the performance of CLOs through the covid-19 dislocation

Three top 20 US managers print CLOs
The pace of CLO issuance in the US continues unabated as three top 20 managers take to the primary market for two resets and a new issue

CLOs at a glance (July 2021)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Carlyle and KKR greet US holiday with $830m of CLO refis
Carlyle Group and KKR each refinanced CLOs with the two deals totalling $830.3 million, according to market sources

Carlyle's US CLO new issues pass $2.5bn with sixth deal
Carlyle Group priced its sixth new US CLO of the year on Friday, becoming just the third manager to complete this feat

Carlyle refis triple and single A notes of 2013 CLO
Carlyle Group returned to the CLO primary market on Friday to refinance two tranches of Carlyle GMS CLO 2013-1 on Friday

Carlyle notches 10th US CLO transaction of 2021
Carlyle Group teamed up with Barclays on Tuesday to reset Carlyle GMS CLO 2016-3

CLO pipeline: queue gets longer as Blackstone goes again and Sancus makes first move
The queue to price for US CLO managers is only getting larger with 18 new issue CLOs in the pipeline, according to market sources, along with 18 repricings and two new issue European CLOs and two mid market CLO resets

Carlyle overtakes Blackstone for 2021 US new issue CLO volume
Carlyle Group has overtaken Blackstone Credit for 2021 new issue CLO volume after teaming with Goldman Sachs to issue Carlyle US CLO 2021-5 on Wednesday

CLOs bask in 'golden period' as industry approaches $1 trillion market cap
The economic rebound following the reopening US economy has created a 'golden period' for the CLO market, market participants say

Carlyle hires head of credit investor relations in New York
Carlyle Group has hired an ex-Pretium official to lead investor relations for its credit platform

CLO pipeline: US market on track for June boom
CLO issuance is set to boom in the coming weeks with the pipeline ballooning as the market looks ahead to June

Carlyle joins spate of managers to score sub-100bp CLO triple A prints
Carlyle Group became the fourth CLO manager this week to score a sub-100 basis point CLO print after refinancing a deal's triple As to 98bp over Libor

Woah, we’re halfway there
Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform

Carlyle and Aflac officials lead new ACC committee with ESG template outlined as priority
The Alternative Credit Council has launched an ‘investor manager committee’, chaired by Carlyle Group’s Erica Frontiero and Elena Boeva from Aflac Global Investments, that has ESG in private credit as one of its first orders of business

Carlyle resets post-reinvestment CLO from 2016
Carlyle Group has reset a 2016 CLO six months after it left its reinvestment period

Global CLO trading lab: secondary volumes inflate and easily get absorbed
Weekly secondary CLO volume has been lower across the capital structure in recent weeks as 2021’s refinancing wave left investors with plenty of choice

CLOs wheel and deal as overlap increases
2020 CLOs are a different breed to any other vintage. But this cohort features an overlap of almost 40% as CLO issuers have been forced to focus almost entirely on secondary market loans

CLO pipeline: European new issues set to resume but managers seek pricing stability
The CLO pipeline is heavy with reworked deals - and anticipation - as 14 US CLO and one European CLO refinancings feature, along with nine US CLO and six European CLO resets

Carlyle first to four new US CLOs in 2021
Carlyle Group became the first CLO manager in 2021 to print four new issue CLOs in the US

CLO pipeline: expensive 2019 CLOs in vogue with 32bp savings potential
The CLO pipeline is dominated by refinancings and resets, with new issuance taking a backseat