Ares emerges as favourite to take over troubled direct lending fund
Following Oaktree’s wind-down request, the board of the Ranger Direct Lending Fund has chosen Ares as replacement manager - moves which could see the fund change its focus from peer-to-peer loan investments to asset-backed loans

Commerzbank unit prices first 'market standard' CLO via BNP Paribas
A European CLO manager, known for issuing short-dated CLOs, has priced its first four-year reinvestment deal

B-wic round-up: secondary CLO market is looking more and more like new issue
2017 and 2018 CLOs flooded the secondary market last week, with bonds referencing Ares Management, LCM Asset Management and Napier Park Global Capital going on sale

PGIM sacrifices non-call time for additional reinvestment in latest CLO
PGIM has priced its first new European CLO of the year via Citi, which has the shortest call lock and longest reinvestment this year

Debut manager prices first ever CLO featuring ESG criteria
The CLO market has welcomed a new manager, which priced its debut 2.0 transaction via BAML yesterday

Euro CLO round-up: Managers race to the bottom as spreads dip below 70bp
With the recent ruling in the US causing uncertainty, managers including Blackrock and Bain have been ensuring they’re risk retention compliant on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, European CLO spreads continue on a monumental rally

BlackRock prices reset of debut Euro CLO
BlackRock Investment Management has reset its debut European CLO from 2016, according to market sources

Europe's CLO reset spreads tighten by 2bp as KKR prices deal
European CLO reset spreads tightened again on Friday as KKR Credit Advisors priced the second largest reset transaction on record

Manager prices first new issue CLO in Europe since September 2016
The New York-headquartered manager has launched its first new issue CLO in Europe since 2016, pricing a €411 million deal via Morgan Stanley yesterday

European CLO round-up: who's going to be first to break 70bp?
European CLO spreads continue to rally and the question on everyone’s lips right now is: “when [not if] will triple As dip below 70 basis points?” Most likely the next question posed will be “are US CLO market participants fretting upon similar quandaries?”

Axa IM holds €1.1 billion final close on European infrastructure debt fund
Axa Investment Managers – Real Assets (AXA IM) held a final close on its co-mingled pan-European infrastructure debt fund at over €1.1 billion, a spokesperson has confirmed

European CLO spreads tighten dramatically as Cairn prices new issue deal
Double A and single A rated notes tighten well inside 2017 tights as Cairn prices a new issue European CLO

Euro league tables: Citi tops rankings in a year of growth for the CLO market
50 new issue CLOs, 39 active managers and four debutants: Creditflux analyses the revival of the European CLO market last year

European direct lending up 34% in recent quarter: Deloitte report
Direct lending in Europe continues to boom, according to the latest Deloitte deal tracker, which found a 34% growth of direct lending deals in third quarter 2017 alone compared to third quarter 2016

Private debt performance shines in institutional investing study
A quarter of institutional investors say private debt outperformed their expectations over 12 months to 28 August 2017

Balance of power shifts away from direct lenders
Mid-sized corporations are getting their way at the expense of direct lenders at the negotiation table, recent research suggests.

Shrinking spread cushions prove hard for CLOs
 Falling loan spreads are placing ever tighter constraints on CLO managers’ choice of investments just as the loan supply itself is declining

Managers pick spots on CLO curve
As refi volumes slowed through 2017, the term curve for CLOs steepened, leading managers to vary their deal tenors as they sought to hit the evolving sweet spot.

Going short IG against the ECB will eventually pay off
Chenavari’s Demian Brasil takes our credit quiz

Deutsche Bank prices UK marketplace lending securitisation
P2P Global Investments has priced its second securitisation of marketplace lending assets from the Zopa platform, Marketplace Originated Consumer Assets 2017-1, according to a source 

Price talk circulates on new Moca marketplace lending securitisation
P2P Global Investments has announced initial price thoughts for its second securitisation of marketplace lending loans from the Zopa platform

Investors prefer direct lending to CLOs
For the first time in the history of Creditflux’s credit allocator survey, investors have voted direct lending the best investment in credit. CLOs came joint second. By Michelle D’souza

Axa IM puts money to work in the US as it closes global real estate debt fund
AXA’s real estate investments arm has closed its 10^th commercial real estate senior debt fund after achieving its capped target of €1.5 billion

CLO round-up: it's a good time to be a debut manager
New managers are taking advantage of welcoming debt investors by speedily raising CLOs. Our analysis shows that 2017 is the perhaps the best time to price a debut CLO since 2013

CLO round-up: US CLO triple As hit 121bp amid late flurry of deals
What had started off as a quiet week in the new issue CLO market has ended with a bang as MJX Asset Management refinanced a deal on Thursday while American Money Management (reset) and CVC Credit Partners (new US CLO) have priced today