First Eagle taps AlbaCore alum for alternative credit product sales
Edward Berry joins as a managing director in London and will help distribute the firm’s alternative credit products, including those under the Napier Park brand

CLO managers push for index-linked discount obligation thresholds
European and US CLO managers are changing their discount obligation language, according to a new report by Dealscribe 

Latest European Napier Park CLO breaches 130bp level as Investcorp also prices new issue
The European CLO market kicked off the week with two new issues pricing through Bank of America, totalling just over EUR 900m

CLO community turns out in force for 18th annual Creditflux Symposium and Awards
EXCLUSIVE: Award winners celebrated, while the stars of the CLO industry came out in force to share predictions, tips and deal making opportunities

US managers to gear up European private credit CLO market
EXCLUSIVE: A slew of European private credit CLOs are set to come to market this year, with US-based managers leading the charge

Napier Park prices third new Euro issue of the year
The triple As for last week's EUR 405m transaction cleared at Euribor plus 133bps

GoldenTree snaps up global award... again
Last year, GoldenTree was named Creditflux Global Manager of the Year. This year it repeated that achievement — but it also swooped for our US manager of the year and closed-end fund awards

CLO market turns to print-and-sprint deals as volatility spikes
EXCLUSIVE: Napier Park, TP Birch Grove, and BlackRock attempt print-and-sprint deals as the maths gets tougher; AGL and Blackstone pull off deals

Napier Park loses CLO portfolio manager to established European rival
EXCLUSIVE: The CLO market has seen a number of portfolio managers changing seats in Europe

Napier Park’s European CLO portfolio manager leaves firm
EXCLUSIVE: London-based director Diarmuid Curran has resigned from the alternative credit manager  

Napier Park launches and successfully fundraises for captive CLO equity fund
Napier Park has launched its first global CLO captive equity fund and has already raised a sizeable amount

Napier Park prints tightest Euro refi of the year
Last week saw Napier Park refinance a European CLO from the first half of 2022, recording the tightest print for such a deal in 2024

Napier Park prices first European new issue CLO of the year
Priced this afternoon, Napier Park’s third deal of 2024 marked its first European offering this year – a new-issue CLO valued at EUR 456.9m, arranged by Natixis.

Napier Park resets 2017 vintage
Napier Park Global reset its Regatta IX Funding yesterday according to market sources, adding four tranches and a fixed-rate coupon

Euro CLO league tables: Final whistle beckons in close manager race as Jefferies looks to park the bus
Last month, just shy of €3 billion of European CLO paper was priced in the primary market, the most since March and Russia’s war with Ukraine

Napier Park prints static European CLO
Napier Park has opted to print a static CLO. The €282 million deal has a one-year non-call period.

Fund performance: August provides much-needed relief for CLO funds
.August fund performance 

15 CLO managers aim to print European deals as 'aspirational pipeline' forms
European CLO market participants are doubtful the pace of issuance will return to full swing in September, despite a reasonably healthy forward-looking pipeline.

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

You seem familiar
The overlap between European CLOs has risen to 51.6%, but the largest issuers are only slightly more aligned to their peers at 55.19% — so bonds are proving to be an important differentiator

Hopes of full recovery quashed as credit funds struggle
Optimism about a prolonged recovery after credit hedge funds bounced back in March was dashed as 60% of funds in our database recorded negative returns in April.

Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
There was more upheaval for credit funds in April, reversing the mini-recovery in March as 40% of funds made positive returns, a decrease on the 47% in March

Fund performance: Credit bounces back from February blues
March performance figures were a slight improvement from the market turn in February; 47% of funds made positive returns, an increase on 17% the previous month

Appetite for CLO warehouse investing increases in Europe
The investor base for European CLO warehouse risk has grown in the past few months, and is supporting the increasing number of CLOs where the equity tranche has come from widely syndicated sources

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