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

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

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

Credit funds at a glance (September 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Euro CLO league tables: Blackstone back on top while Jefferies extends lead as focus turns to new issues
2021 European CLO issuance crossed €60 billion in July, which is more than the 22 months that preceded this year

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

What summer slowdown? Carlyle, Hayfin and Investcorp add €1.2 billion Euro CLO issuance
Europe’s CLO market has shown no sign of a summer slowdown in the first week of August as Hayfin and Investcorp rework 2020 deals and Carlyle refis 

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. 

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

Carlyle opts for partial refi of 2017 Euro CLO
JP Morgan arranged Carlyle's €234.4 million refinancing of the CLO’s triple A tranche