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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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. 

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

Credit fundraising: managers take care of infrastructure with new partnerships
Credit managers were busy launching new partnerships to support growth in infrastructure and CLOs. There were 13 announcements in the month paving the way for upcoming funds, platforms, and joint ventures

LP round up: big name managers win direct lending mandates amid $1.5 billion allocations
Apollo, Ares, Barings and CVC were among the beneficiaries of the direct lending rush in May 

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

Canadian pension Imco allocates $500 million to Ares
Investment Management Corporation of Ontario has revealed a $500 million allocation to a large credit manager that includes $400 million to a fund-of-one

LP round up: $3.2 billion flows to 21 managers as private credit illiquidity premium holds firm
Investors allocated at least $3.2 billion to credit managers in April - and direct lending funds were in favour with Churchill and Ares being awarded two mandates

Credit fundraising: three massive European direct lending funds notch up €17.6 bn
Fundraising figures continued upwards in April as just over $24 billion was raised for credit funds, alongside $3.2 worth of allocations to credit managers. Nine funds held final closes including the largest European direct lending fund raised to date

Ares flush with cash after raising €15 billion for European direct lending
Ares Management has raised one of the largest European direct lending funds on record and, with leverage, the fund expects to have a whopping €15 billion to deploy

CLO pipeline: go long! new issues and resets push refis aside
The CLO market is ready to go beyond refinancings - after this year's opening blitz of those deals - into the longer tenored territory of resets and new issues

Credit funds at a glance (April 2021)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves

Ares shaves 20bp off triple As with European CLO partial refi
Ares Management has refinanced the triple A notes on its 2014 vintage European CLO, Ares European CLO VII

CLO pipeline: busy year, so let's take time to reset
The US CLO market this year has been dominated by new issues and refinancings, but now is the time of the reset judging by this week’s pipeline