US CLO pipeline: new faces appear amid tightening price guidance
After many months, the US CLO pipeline is bursting with new life as two debutants market their inaugural deals – Empower’s Empower 2022-1 and Muzinich’s 1988 CLO 1 

Fidelity Investments prepares inaugural BDC
Fidelity Investments is preparing to launch its inaugural private credit business development company, Fidelity Private Credit Fund

Euro CLO league tables: Goldman Sachs, Fidelity and Tikehau enter fray as Jefferies extends lead
Four European CLO managers braved the market in August to price a new issues, the same number as August 2021

CLOs at a glance (August 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Fidelity places triple A notes at 133bp in latest new CLO
Fidelity Investments priced its first new CLO of the year this week, placing the deal's triple A notes at 1.82 basis points tight of the 10-day average

LP round up: Fidelity wins big, Pacific retains loan mandate, pensions eye distressed
The month also included one CLO fund commitment, one high yield manager search, one finalised US loans mandate and one $400 million multi-sector fixed income managed account mandate

I’ll see your 2020 and raise you 2021
Discounted loans, Libor floors and bond flexibility helped make 2021 an even better year for CLO returns than 2020, as US CLOs distributed 15.54% and European CLOs paid 13.93% annualised

Fidelity appoints former CVC official as global head of private assets solutions
Fidelity has hired from CVC to a newly created role of global head of private assets solutions, following the expansion of its private credit businesses earlier this year

Fidelity breaks through with Article 8-aligned European CLO
Fidelity International has paired with Barclays on its first new issue European CLO since lifting out and onboarding MeDirect’s leveraged loan and CLO team

Credit Fundraising: Private credit and CLO captive equity feature strongly as closes mount up
Credit funds have made a fair start to the fourth quarter, although the $21 billion raised during October is down substantially on September’s impressive record for 2021

Fidelity to add ESG portfolio test in Article 8-aligned CLO
Fidelity International has taken ESG scoring in the CLO market a step further by including a new ESG portfolio profile test on an upcoming European CLO

Fidelity produces rare 2020 CLO refi as Benefit Street reworks 2017 deal
Benefit Street Partners and Fidelity Investments each priced a CLO refinancing on Monday, with the two deals worth a combined $896 million

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 

Fidelity prices tight with third CLO of year
Fidelity Investments has priced its third CLO of the year (a record for the firm) and cemented its new-found status among elite CLO managers.

Fidelity adds senior hire from Madison Capital to new direct lending team
Fidelity Investments has hired a former managing director at Madison Capital to its new direct lending team

US CLO triple As and mezz move out of sync as Fidelity and Voya refi
Triple A and mezzanine CLO tranches told different stories yesterday as two US CLOs, with very different profiles, refinanced

US CLO managers with eye on Europe opt for risk retention
The US CLO market celebrated as domestic risk retention requirements were overturned in February 2018, but issuers are increasingly taking down 5% of their CLOs voluntarily with a view to satisfying European risk retention rules

Fidelity issues loan-format triple As in new US CLO via Bank of America
Fidelity Investments has priced its second new CLO of 2021, naming the deal Ballyrock CLO 16

CLO pipeline: new issue becomes name of game with 14 managers preparing to price
Only $3.2 billion of CLO paper priced globally across all forms of pricings this past week. But the market looks to set to explode back into life with 14 US CLO new issues in the pipeline

Fidelity launches US direct lending business and hires team head from PNC
Fidelity Investments is launching a direct lending platform and has hired a senior PNC official to lead the new business from Chicago

Fidelity completes first new CLO of 2021
Fidelity Investments has priced its first new CLO of 2021, teaming up with JP Morgan on the $409.3 million deal named Ballyrock CLO 15

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

JP Morgan prices CLO refis for Fidelity and Sound Point
JP Morgan has priced CLO refinancing deals for Fidelity Investments and Sound Point Capital Management. The two deals total $872 million in volume

Asset management giant emerges as bidder for European CLO businesses
A large asset manager came close to adding European CLOs and direct lending to its product range with the firm emerging as a bidder on two asset management businesses

Fidelity steps into European CLOs with MeDirect deal
Fidelity International is breaking into European CLOs after striking a deal to acquire the CLO management team from MeDirect