Fortress creates super-secure triple As in $1.77 billion mid-market CLO reset
Fortress Credit Partners has reset a $1.77 billion middle market CLO in the second-largest CLO transaction of the year. The CLO features an unusual triple A debt stack

Fortress prints its fifth and largest CLO of the year to date
Fortress Investment Group has priced its fifth and largest CLO of 2021 to date, bringing its issuance volumes for the year to $2.4 billion

CLO pipeline: Carlyle unstoppable as PGIM looks to tighten double As
The CLO machine is refusing to slowdown, churning out deals as the US market is set to welcome a flurry of deals in the coming weeks – with 18 new issues, 14 resets and 10 refinancings in the marketing stage.

Pretium swoops for three managing director hires to residential credit business
Pretium has made three managing director hires to its residential credit business in New York 

Fortress prints its fourth new CLO of 2021
Fortress Investment Group priced its fourth new CLO of the year on Thursday, teaming with Natixis on the $402.8 million deal named Fortress Credit BSL IX

CLO pipeline: Man GLG resurfaces from six-year absence as deals exiting call-lock fill pipeline
CLO spreads have leaked out in recent weeks but deal economics are still favourable, encouraging managers to come back to the primary market for the first time this year

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

US CLO triple As hit 132bp as Fortress teams with two arrangers
Fortress Investment Group priced a new broadly syndicated loan-backed CLO on Friday via two arrangers

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

CLOs wheel and deal as overlap increases
2020 CLOs are a different breed to any other vintage. But this cohort features an overlap of almost 40% as CLO issuers have been forced to focus almost entirely on secondary market loans

Mid market CLO spreads reach tightest point since 2018 as Fortress prices new issue
Four-year triple A spreads on middle market CLOs reached new post-covid tights on Friday as Fortress Investment Group issued a deal with first-pays at just 155 basis points over Libor

At least 2020 wasn’t dreadful for CLOs
Last year’s downturn was another in which CLOs survived and in many cases thrived as active management and Libor floors helped managers deliver 13%-plus returns to equity

LP round up: Dutch pensions put €1.3 billion into infra debt
Institutional investors allocated over $2 billion to credit funds in January. Opportunistic credit funds were a favourite but the biggest moves came in infrastructure debt

Fortress refis two tranches and amends another from 2018 bond-flex CLO
Fortress Investment Group has teamed up with GreensLedge and Natixis to cut the funding costs of three tranches of its 2018-vintage bond-flex CLO named FDF IV,

Fortress partially refinances bond-flex CLO
Fortress Investment Group has partnered with GreensLedge and Natixis to partially refinance its 2017 vintage bond-flex CLO named FDF III

Elements work against CLO managers in Q3
CLO equity distributions fell in Q3 largely due to factors, such as Libor mismatches, that CLO managers can’t control. But these headwinds could turn in favour of managers in the near future

Fortress prices first BSL CLO in over a year
Fortress Investment Group has priced its first CLO backed by broadly syndicated loans in over 12 months

CLO pipeline: three behemoths prepare for quick-turnaround new issues
CLO managers have printed at a frenetic pace since the start of the quarter with $3.36 billion of issuance across all CLO markets and pricing types

Ex-Fortress official launches $1.5 billion litigation finance firm with Tetragon backing
The new business is backed by Tetragon’s TFG Asset Management, which will receive a minority equity interest, while Fortress has entered into co-investment agreements with the newly launched firm 

LP round up: $5 billion flows to credit as private market allocations increase
Global institutional investors allocated nearly $5 billion to credit funds this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux

Fortress prints third fixed rate CLO refi of the year
Fortress Investment Group placed its third fixed-rate CLO refi post-covid yesterday, teaming with MUFG to rework the double A-rated notes of its 2017 transaction named Fortress Credit BSL V

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub retakes new issue lead
Golub further cemented its lead over Owl Rock in Creditflux's overall rankings, as well as reclaiming the crown for new issuance, by pricing the only new mid-market deal in August

LP round up: Connecticut eyes Fortress for private credit partnership
Investors placed $3.3 billion across 26 credit mandates over the past fortnight, according to documents seen by Creditflux 

Fortress and Octagon add to 2018 fixed-rate CLO refi trend
Another two CLOs refinanced their fixed rate debt tranches on Thursday, bringing the total refi activity in the last two months to 15 transactions

Fortress and Natixis strengthen mid-market CLO refi run
Fortress Investment Group has partially refinanced its third middle market CLO in as many months, say sources, with Natixis arranging the market's fourth deal in a row