Nuveen closes first CLO equity fund at $375 million
Nuveen has closed its inaugural CLO equity fund with over $375 million in capital committed

US managers eye growth potential in European CLOs
The legion of European CLO managers is set to grow this year, with US issuers harbouring ambitions to become global players in the CLO business.

Credit Suisse braves market turmoil to print CLOs for Nuveen and Onex
Credit Suisse has maintained its CLO issuance amid market turmoil by printing transactions for Onex Credit Management and Nuveen Asset Management

Large US CLO issuer plans expansion into Europe
An experienced US CLO manager is hiring with a view to building out a European CLO team

CLO pipeline: deals come in two by two hurrah! hurrah!
It is raining CLOs in February and some issuers are preparing for the deluge by printing deals at the double

Nuveen prints one of February's tightest new CLOs
Nuveen priced one of the year's tightest US CLOs on Friday, pairing with Bank of America on the new $506.5 million deal named Symphony XXXI

Panagram takes on 'structure advisor' role for mid market CLO as two deals price
Panagram Structured Asset Management has taken an advisor role for a BlackRock mid market CLO - one of two mid market deals Natixis arranged this week, with another for Nuveen Asset Management

Symphony opts for short-dated structure with its fourth new CLO of the year
Nuveen Asset Management priced its fourth new US CLO of the year on Wednesday, opting to structure the deal with a short reinvestment period of just three years

Nuveen cuts 2020 CLO funding costs by 40bp with refi
Nuveen Asset Management cut the funding costs of one of its 2020 CLOs by almost 40 basis points by refinancing the deal on Wednesday

Nuveen and Sixth Street turn CLO reset attention to older deals
Nuveen and Sixth Street both reset an older vintage CLO on Friday, with the two managers reworking $850 million worth of legacy transactions

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 

Sculptor and Nuveen add $883 million CLO refi supply
Sculptor Capital Management and Nuveen have each refinanced a legacy CLO, with the two deals adding $882.6 million to refi supply

Nuveen lowers CLO triple As by 22 basis points after refinancing 2012 deal
Nuveen has refinanced four senior debt tranches of its 2012 CLO named California Street IX

Nuveen and SocGen pair for first time on new CLO with tight triple As
Nuveen priced its second new issue CLO of the year on Tuesday, via SocGen

Nuveen lowers 2019 CLO's funding costs by 31 basis points
Nuveen refinanced its 2019 CLO named Symphony XXI on Wednesday, lowering the deal's funding costs by 31 basis points in the process

Nuveen opts for three-year reinvestment period on latest CLO
Nuveen has opted for a short one-year non-call, three-year reinvestment structure on its new CLO named Symphony CLO XVIII, which priced on Thursday

Triple As hit new tights with Nuveen CLO
Credit Suisse arranged the $510.6 million transaction, named Symphony XXV

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

MUFG cuts CLO funding costs with first primary deal of 2021
MUFG priced its first CLO primary market transaction of 2021 on Monday, arranging a $492 million refinancing of three tranches of Symphony CLO XV

Nuveen renames CLO and upsizes by $170 million following reset
Nuveen Asset Management has reset one of its 2017-vintage CLOs via Wells Fargo, upsizing the deal by $170 million in the process

Refis, resets and reissues back in vogue as four US CLO managers print deals
Various shades of CLO refinancings dominate the US CLO primary market with four deals - two refis, a reset and a reissue - printing on Wednesday for a total volume of $1.1 billion. This surpassed all US CLO refinancings in the six months from March to September last year

Vaccine boosts credit as PE firms open up to bridge loans
The leveraged loan and CLO markets ended 2020 on a long-awaited high after multiple vaccines for covid-19 were rubber-stamped by regulators

Nuveen hits US market tights with CLO and takes 2020 volume to $1.2 billion
Nuveen has priced the third US CLO on its Symphony platform of 2020, bringing its volume for the year to $1.22 billion

CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
Over $3.5 billion of global CLO issuance priced last week and managers in all three CLO markets are taking advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure after three major covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs and increased confidence since the US presidential election

Symphony splits CLO tranche to fixed and floating following refi
Symphony Asset Management has split the fixed-rate double A tranche of its 2015 vintage CLO named Symphony XVI as part of a refinancing