Ares launches new IG private credit strategy with senior hire
Ares Management has bolstered its credit capabilities by adding a new investment grade private credit strategy and hiring a managing director

US pensions assign $1.5 billion to 16 credit managers in December
US public pensions rounded off 2021 by gifting credit managers around $1.5 billion in commitments, according to documents seen by Creditflux

US CLO league tables: Blackstone and Citi win new issues but CSAM and JP Morgan take overall issuance crown
The US CLO market had an extraordinary 2021 with almost $400 billion of overall issuance pricing as records were set for all forms of issuance

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

Ares rounds out bumper year for direct lending with $14 billion US fund
Ares Management is ending 2021 with yet another massive direct lending fund-raise

LP round up: CLO fund included in whopping $13 billion of credit allocations in November
Credit took centre stage in November as investors allocated over $13 billion to credit funds in the month, with one pension allocating $50 million for a European CLO risk retention fund 

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

Ares prints tight new CLO at $607.5 million
Ares Management on Thursday priced the largest US CLO of the month so far, teaming up with Goldman Sachs to issue Ares LXII at $607.5 million

Treasury desk lists $818 million b-wic as hedge fund looks to offload control CLO equity in bumper day
State Street once again listed over $800 million of US CLO triple A bonds on Tuesday, having sold $834 million of triple A paper last month

Ares prints first European CLO new issue this year
Ares Management has returned to the European CLO new issue market for the first time in just over a year

Ares and Wellfleet partially refi legacy CLOs
Ares Management and Wellfleet Credit Partners partially refinanced a legacy CLO each Wednesday night via Goldman Sachs and Citi, respectively

Credit Fundraising: Private credit and CLO captive equity feature strongly as closes mount up
Credit funds have made a fair start to the fourth quarter, although the $21 billion raised during October is down substantially on September’s impressive record for 2021

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

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

Ares joins CLO equity fundraising rush with $400 million target
Fundraising for CLO captive equity funds is surging, with Ares Management the latest manager to win capital for such a strategy

Global CLO trading lab: bank sells $834 million triple As in quarterly reallocation as hedge fund trades CLO equity
Thursday’s secondary CLO market was the busiest of 2021, with over $1 billion of US CLOs on offer. This featured an enormous b-wic worth $834.3 million, where sources have told Creditflux of the bank behind the aucton. While a large credit hedge fund is said to have sold out of control CLO equity 

Ares, Hayfin and Octagon reset $1.4 billion of CLOs
$1.4 billion of US CLO resets priced on Thursday after Ares Management, Hayfin Capital Management and Octagon Credit Investors each reworked a legacy transaction

Ares closes $5.1 billion junior US direct lending fund as deployment hits 20%
Ares Management has collected $5.1 billion for its second junior US direct lending fund, Ares Private Credit Solutions II

Livermore reveals latest US CLO anchor equity position
CLO equity investor Livermore Investments Group has revealed its latest anchor equity stake investment

CLO refi and reset volumes surge with $2.3 billion priced on Friday
CLO refi and reset volumes surged on Friday with $2.3 billion priced across the US market, according to market sources. Brigade Capital Management, MidOcean Credit Partners and New Mountain Capital reset regular-way CLOs, Blackstone Credit scored a regular CLO refi, Sculptor Capital Management refinanced a bond-heavy CLO, and Ivy Hill Asset Management reset a middle market CLO

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

Credit Fundraising: September breaks 2021 record and poses question - is it sustainable?
The third quarter ended with $36.5 billion being raised in credit last month, doubling July and August figures. Several of the new funds have embedded Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation or ESG criteria at the heart of their investment thesis   

Ares prices tight on 2019 Euro CLO refi
2019 Euro CLOs continues to be the prime vintage for refinancing with Ares Management becoming the latest manager to rework a deal

New issues take a backseat as US CLO market absorbs three resets and a refi
CLO primary market activity was briefly diverted away from heavy new issue supply on Thursday and attention turned to resets and refinancings, with four deals printing in total

Ares refis former Crestline Denali CLO debt via Natixis for third time
Ares Management has refinanced the senior-most tranches of a 2016 CLO it bought from Crestline Denali last year