Elmwood opts for fat triple Bs in new CLO
Elmwood has added so-called "fat" triple Bs into its latest new CLO named Logan CLO III

CLOs look attractive after corporate rally - but not all tranches: Barclays
Rallying corporate cash credit spreads over the past two weeks have widened the basis with CLOs and made these products look attractive again, according to Barclays strategists

Hidden loan tail risks and mounting single B exposure could pose problem for CLOs: Barclays
A solid rally for leveraged loans this week - against returning weakness in bonds - has put focus back on the market, which seemingly has little tail risk priced in. But short term support factors and a dwindling triple C bucket mask the quality skew, warn Barclays strategists in a note today - which could spell downgrades for single-B minus rated loans

Global CLO league tables - March 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - March YTD

CLO managers price with short, medium and long reinvestments as pricing widens
Ares Management, Golub Capital Partners and Partners Group each priced a new CLO on Friday, with each manager taking a different approach to the various duration structures that have arisen amid the current market volatility

Volatility has teed up decompression trades: Barclays
Recent credit market turbulence has brought relative value trading opportunities between cash bonds and CDS, credit and equity as well as between investment grade and high yield, particularly in Europe

Global CLO league tables - February 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Feb YTD

CLO equity could get hurt by mismatch in credit spread adjustments: Barclays
The possibility that borrowers and sponsors start to use their clout to scrap credit spread adjustments from leveraged loans poses a risk for new CLO equity, while legacy deals also face transition challenges

Blackstone and MS Eaton Vance new CLOs achieve market-beating triple As
Blackstone Credit and Morgan Stanley Eaton Vance each priced a new CLO on Friday with triple A spreads around 132 basis points - among the tightest first-pay prints of recent weeks

A long time ago in a Galaxy CLO far, far away (October 2018 to be precise)...
PineBridge Investments has made a long-awaited return to the US CLO primary market by pricing its first new issue in over three years    

New issue brings Diameter's CLOs under management above CBOs for first time
Diameter Capital's regular-way CLOs under management overtook its issuance numbers for bond-flex CLOs on Friday

BlueBay opens up with first public US CLO
BlueBay Asset Management has made the breakthrough with its first ‘public’ US CLO with Barclays pricing BBAM US CLO I

Acer Tree flowers with debut European CLO
The CLO market welcomed a new manager on Friday as Acer Tree Investment Management priced its inaugural deal via Barclays

Europe outpaces US as investors scramble to cover their shorts
Lifting of short positions has helped take European credit into a second successive day of outperformance against the US, with financial companies and some of the more recently volatile high yield names leading the way

Europe leads relief rally with energy and peripheral bank credits outperforming
Credit spreads are making a broad move tighter on Tuesday, with European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde having tried to rein back rate hike expectations and oil company BP posting strong profits

Euro CLO league tables: Dry January means focus switches to refis and resets
It is healthy to take a break after what was a bumper 2021. And Europe's CLO market has taken that to heart by abstaining from new issues and instead reworking older CLOs

Europe/US relative value comes into play amid growing credit outflows
Big successive moves wider are taking credit spreads to new extremes and bringing compression between Europe and the US amid the highest daily market volatility since 2020

Asset manager to launch debut 'public' CLO with Apollo backing
A large global asset manager is making its long-awaited move into US CLOs with market sources indicating it is launching a deal with support from Apollo, having executed a private CLO in partnership three years ago 

Investment grade hit hardest as tech earnings and rate hike undo market rally
Financial markets have reversed course following two days of improvement, with credit spreads hit by poor tech company earnings and a Bank of England rate hike

Invesco tightens triple As to 130bp with its second largest CLO
Invesco priced a new US CLO on Wednesday with the triple A notes paying 130 basis points over Sofr

Barclays seeks head of SRT risk
Barclays is looking to hire a head of SRT risk for its wholesale credit portfolio, having established a credit risk transfer programme under the Colonnade branding 

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

CIFC prices second-tightest CLO of 2022
CIFC Asset Management priced its first CLO of the year on Thursday, securing the second tightest funding costs on a new issue this year

CLO pipeline: biggest managers come to market as Rockford Tower sets sight on CBO
The Sofr-era of CLOs is well and truly upon us judging by the pipeline, with 14 US CLO managers marketing their first Sofr CLOs. and six European CLO managers are locked in a race to bring the first new issue of 2022

Euro CLO league tables: Upstarts Jefferies and Palmer Square fall just short of market leaders
ABC as easy as 1, 2, 3: Apollo leads new issuance as Barclays and CVC emerge as overall leaders, despite the efforts of newcomers Jefferies and Palmer Square. The European CLO market had a record year in 2021 as overall issuance fell just €3.2 billion short of €100 billion, more than double the previous record set in 2017 of €45.7 billion and a 325% increase on the coronavirus-impacted market in 2020