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

CLOs at a glance (June 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
 
   

Octagon prices its largest CLO with high-rated mezz
Octagon Credit Investors on Friday priced its largest ever CLO, and the largest broadly syndicated loan-backed CLO in the market this year

CLOs at a glance (May 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
   

Past returns: ‘Stabilisation’ provides back-up
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported that Wells Fargo had offered to buy tranches in an Octagon Credit Investors’ CLO to support execution.

Octagon prints largest CLO in over two and a half years
Octagon Credit Investors priced a $610.2 million CLO on Thursday, its largest new issue deal since October 2018

Sofr, so complicated
At Creditflux’s US CLO Summit debate centred on Libor and Sofr. Hot topics included tenors, Libor floors being out-of-the money and investors changing their views on spread adjustments

Morgan Stanley prints new CLOs for Oaktree, Octagon and Voya
Morgan Stanley priced three new issue CLOs on Friday worth a combined $1.36 billion

LP round up: Fidelity wins big, Pacific retains loan mandate, pensions eye distressed
The month also included one CLO fund commitment, one high yield manager search, one finalised US loans mandate and one $400 million multi-sector fixed income managed account mandate

US CLO fund wins $16 million from San Jose pension
The $5 billion pension awarded the allocation to a manager's fourth US CLO fund, having previously allocated to its second and third fund 

Global CLO trading lab: Payments season prompts equity to surge but short-dated bonds trade low
Over the last two weeks, $2.8 billion of US CLOs and €640 million of European CLO paper have appeared on b-wics, with equity making up 33% and 40% of the respective markets

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

CLOs at a glance (February 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Ares and Octagon bring weekly CLO reset volume over $2 billion in just two days
Ares Management and Octagon Credit Investors each reset a CLO on Tuesday, bringing weekly US CLO reset volume up to over $2 billion

Credit Rendezvous: the upside of inflation
It is clear, inflation is not transitory and central banks are acting with several interest rate hikes likely in store for the US this year. That makes loans and CLO debt tranches attractive, but there could be opportunities beyond these floating rate assets

Two CLO funds launch following at least 20 in 2021
Two US credit managers have kicked off the year by launching funds geared towards investing in CLO tranches

Octagon to switch 2019 CLO to Sofr and upsize by $137 million
Octagon Credit Investors is set to upsize a 2019 CLO by $137 million as it plans to reset the deal next week, transitioning the structure to pay its liabilities off Sofr in the process

Octagon and Pimco tap CLO refi market
Octagon Credit Investors and Pacific Investment Management Company each turned to the CLO refi market on Thursday resulting in just short of $800 million pricing

Correction: ArrowMark, Octagon and Trimaran print five-year CLOs
ArrowMark Partners, Octagon Credit Investors and Trimaran Advisors each priced a five-year CLO on Monday

Two degrees of separation as Octagon solidifies Barclays partnership with 2020 CLO reset
Octagon Credit Investors has been quick to reset a CLO that it priced just over a year ago, giving Octagon Investment Partners 50 a three-year extension. 

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

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

Octagon scores new $500m CLO via Barclays
Octagon Credit Investors priced its seventh new CLO of 2021 on Wednesday, partnering with Barclays on the $509.3 million deal named Octagon Investment Partners 57

CSAM regains best manager throne
Upstart CLO managers overtook more experienced rivals at last year’s Creditflux Manager Awards, but CSAM and other large firms, such as PGIM, emerged victorious in London this time around

US CLO pipeline: 1.0 manager returning, Carlyle going for CLO 10 as market goes to 100
Never in 1,000 years would the critics have expected this