US CLO pipeline: Dispersion comes to fore, while Capital Four goes static
The CLO market is heating up once again after the summer lull and pricing has tightened, with at least three US CLO managers looking to match or even best Palmer Square Capital Management’s triple A print of 200 basis points

The Last Tranche with Octagon's Nechamkin: Investors were selling the larger loans that were easier to sell
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Mike Nechamkin, chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager at Octagon Credit Investors, discusses the reasons behind the recovery in loan prices in recent weeks

Quick! Avaya has ignited and $1 billion of CLO assets are at risk
Sparks are flying in the leveraged loan and high yield market after communications company Avaya Holdings slashed its forecasted earnings mere weeks after syndicating new debt. The rapid decline of Avaya's debt has left CLO managers little time to avoid the blaze

US CLO league tables: Heavyweights knock deals out as familiar faces stay top
In June 25 managers braved the US CLO market, among which only Columbia Management priced its first deal of the year

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
   

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

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

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

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

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

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 

Nochu again: Japanese bank makes tentative return to CLO primary investing
Norinchukin, the world’s largest holder of CLO notes, made a tentative return to primary investing last month

CLO resets flood in with $2 billion printing across five deals
Five US CLO resets priced between Friday and Monday for a total volume of over $2 billion, covering a wide array of managers and different CLO vintages

Octagon joins six-times-in-2021 US CLO issuer club
Octagon Credit Investors has joined the exclusive group of managers to print six new issue US CLOs in 2021

JP Morgan CLO trader joins large asset manager in New York
A US manager has added two sell-side CLO specialists to its team in a matter of weeks