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Ohio pension backs GSO's upcoming European direct lending fund
4 years ago
Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund (OP&F) has approved a $50 million commitment to GSO European Debt Fund II -
GSO prices CLO with tightest prints across senior and junior tranches
4 years ago
CLO spreads fell sharply yesterday as GSO Capital Partners priced a new issue deal named Niagara Park CLO with a weighted average funding cost of 176.65 basis points over Libor -
Budge up, more new managers are coming
Room for 10 more? The average loan overlap among recent European CLOs is 48.7% – so the expected influx of new managers will have to work hard to distinguish themselves from the pack4 years ago -
GSO co-founder takes Iron throne with new manager launch
4 years ago
GSO co-founder Tripp Smith has launched a new firm - Iron Park Capital Partners. He brings hires from credit long/short hedge fund River Birch Capital, Oak Hill and Axar with him -
Global b-wic round-up: US CLO equity continues its surge
4 years ago
Last week marked the third straight week that the US CLO secondary market has seen total listings of under $600 million, but over a quarter of that was equity. -
Spire wins Creditflux Manager of the Year award
4 years ago
Spire Partners was the big winner at Creditflux's Manager Awards last night as the London-based manager scooped the award for the manager of the year. On top of this, the firm picked up awards for Best European CLO Manager and Best European CLO for Aurium CLO II -
Euro CLO league tables: at long last - a reset, a refi and a debut
4 years ago
A chill swept through the European CLO market in April. While managers priced €3.16 billion of CLOs, it was the slowest month since January. -
CLOs at a glance
4 years ago
A round-up of CLO performance -
Two CLO investors leave GSO in London
4 years ago
Two experienced CLO investors have parted ways with GSO Capital Partners in the last few weeks -
Owl Creek turns heads to special situations with new fund
4 years ago
The firm joins several other distressed investors preparing to take advantage of a potential downturn -
Return of the refi: GSO produces Europe's first CLO refinancing for seven months
4 years ago
GSO Capital Partners has priced Europe’s first CLO refi transaction since last September, according to market sources -
Blackstone follows in footsteps of KKR and Ares by converting to corporation
5 years ago
The conversion is anticipated to be effective from 1 July -
CLO pipeline: managers seek to return as others arrive, after testing Q1
5 years ago
With the first quarter of 2019 now in the books, the CLO market looks to be continuing where it left off. -
Large, liquid loans aren’t always perfect
5 years ago
CLOs could be forgiven for rushing to buy Refinitiv loans — after all it was the biggest LBO since the crisis. But some large managers have abstained, while others have bought opportunistically -
GSO makes senior hire to lead distressed trading
5 years ago
GSO Capital Partners has bolstered its distressed trading desk with two hires -
Creditflux reveals finalists for most competitive Manager Awards ever
5 years ago
To compile the shortlist for the annual Creditflux awards, we select the best performers in credit using a combination of detailed, data-driven metrics. The winners will be announced on 8 May -
GSO to add two North American offices in 2019
5 years ago
The credit manager anticipates the offices will help expand the firm’s origination efforts in North America -
Controlling class conditions unshackle CLO managers
5 years ago
CLO managers are looking to the future by incorporating ‘controlling class conditions’ in their CLO documentation, which kicks in if an anchor triple A investor exits their deals -
Ares and GSO carry unitranches over €1 billion mark
5 years ago
Flush with cash, European direct lending managers have finally passed the milestone one billion unitranche mark this quarter -
We can’t hide it any longer, we’re tiering up
5 years ago
With the opening months of 2019 highlighting a clear class system among CLO managers, there has never been a better time to assess tiering. We find that timing, patience and luck all play a role -
Euro CLO league tables: repricings take a back seat while new issues get going
5 years ago
The European CLO market showed signs of kicking back into gear in February with €3.32 billion of issuance -
Isda tables plans to rid CDS market of narrowly tailored credit events
5 years ago
After lengthy deliberation, a working group of major firms is today set to publish proposals aimed at ridding the market of ‘narrowly tailored credit events’, whereby borrowers are persuaded to default on debt payments in order to trigger pay-outs for CDS holders -
Tail wags dog as European CLOs' 108bp benchmark drags loans
5 years ago
European CLOs usually price on the back of where underlying loans are printing, but this year the reverse looks to be true -
GSO plans follow-up European direct lending fund
5 years ago
GSO Capital Partners is putting together a senior debt fund and has the backing of Taiwan Life -
GSO becomes first manager to price two new issue CLOs this year
5 years ago
GSO Capital Partners on Friday became the first manager to issue two new CLOs in 2019, following the $502.05 million deal named Buckhorn Park
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