Euro CLO league tables: Permira and Barclays Providus with sole new issue
Just one manager priced a European CLO priced in June, when Permira Credit and Barclays brought Providus VII to market

Morgan Stanley Eaton Vance produces Thursday's tightest CLO execution
Morgan Stanley Eaton Vance priced a new CLO on Thurday, scoring the day's tightest triple A print in the process

Manager selection stakes are heightening as CLO pain points intensify: Barclays
CLOs’ slump in market value and piling of distressed assets have made differentiation between managers much more acute on key metrics, regionally and by vintage, according to Barclays credit strategists

Barings scores tight debt execution on latest new CLO
Barings priced a new CLO on Tuesday, achieving the third tightest liability pricing for a five-year reinvestment US CLO this month

CLO investors show more signs of optimism than other ABS: Barclays
CLO investors attending the Global ABS conference in Barcelona were more upbeat than those that work in residential mortgage-backed securities and other ABS, say Barclays securitised credit strategists. But the overall mood was sombre

Bank's head of European CLO trading leaves after crypto gains
Benjamin Cowley, head of European CLO trading at Barclays, is set to leave his role at the British bank

Carlyle prints new US CLO with triple As at 195bp
Carlyle Group priced its latest new CLO on Friday, placing the deal's triple A notes at 195 basis points over Sofr

European CLO triple As widen to 140bp with long-awaited Permira deal
European CLO triple As have widened out to 140 basis points over Euribor, as Permira Credit breaks the two-week CLO market silence by pricing its long-awaited new issue deal, Providus CLO VII

CLO top stack offers best value versus corp debt after junior tranche rally: Barclays
Having lagged in the recent market recovery, CLO triple A paper looks attractive versus corporate investment grade and the CDX IG credit derivatives index

Flurry of US CLOs print as Barclays boosts CLO issuance with Brigade and Bain deals
Barclays has brought over $906 million of issuance to the market, printing deals for Bain Capital Credit and Creditflux’s newly crowned US CLO manager of the year Brigade Capital Management

Quadruple winner Redding Ridge celebrates with new European CLO
Redding Ridge picked up four trophies in awards season (in contrast to one Premier League football team which is labouring in a similar pursuit) and it has struck while the iron is hot to print a new European CLO

US CLO triple As end week at 154bp as Napier Park and Rockford Tower print deals
Napier Park Global and Rockford Tower Capital Management priced new CLOs on Friday, with each manager printing their triple A notes at 154 basis points over Sofr

Macro woes have dented CLO and loan outlook: Barclays
Rising interest rates and elevated macro volatility have negatively impacted the performance outlook for both loans and CLOs, according to Barclays credit strategists

US CLO league tables: Blackstone gets back to business as it rises to the top
Blackstone is no longer the largest CLO manager globally (it lost that title in March). But it is the most prolific issuer in 2022 

US CLO refis return with Angelo Gordon pricing first since February
Angelo Gordon refinanced its Northwoods Captital 22 CLO on Tuesday, completing the first successful CLO refi in two and a half months

High yield / loan slowdown affects year-end projections and pricing: Barclays
A sharp decline in primary market activity means expectations for high yield bond and even leveraged loan issuance need to be lowered, say Barclays credit strategists. And that in turn has implications for relative value

Oak Hill gets off mark in 2022 with first CLO since acquisition
Oak Hill on Thursday priced its first new US CLO of 2022

US loans recover but CLOs lag and issuance stutters
The US leveraged loan market spent the latter half of March recovering losses from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with prices now above where they were when the war started

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

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