Woah, we’re halfway there
Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform

Carlyle and Aflac officials lead new ACC committee with ESG template outlined as priority
The Alternative Credit Council has launched an ‘investor manager committee’, chaired by Carlyle Group’s Erica Frontiero and Elena Boeva from Aflac Global Investments, that has ESG in private credit as one of its first orders of business

Credit and stocks regain composure on rates as oil hits new heights
Credit and equity markets have improved again on Wednesday morning, after US treasury secretary Janet Yellen's comments about possible rate rises spooked markets on Tuesday afternoon

M&A drives movers in high yield and investment grade
Acquisition talks are having the biggest impact on European credit spreads on Tuesday following the UK bank holiday, with several names moving against an otherwise flat market

Sound Point resets inaugural European CLO with tight triple As
Sound Point Capital Management has reset its inaugural European CLO via Citi

NIBC takes ESG-scored European CLO tally to two with strong execution
NIBC has priced its latest ESG-branded European CLO, North Westerly VII

Capital Four hires in private debt team
Capital Four has hired a director in the private debt structuring and origination team

Investec names assistant PM on new direct lending fund
Investec has named an assistant portfolio manager for the bank’s new direct lending fund Investec's Private Debt Fund I

Record-breaking Apollo and Blackstone European CLOs make first distributions
Two 2020 CLOs managed by Blackstone Credit and Redding Ridge (Apollo) that set equity cover records in the secondary CLO market earlier this year have made their first payments

Banks set to offer client clearing of credit index options
Bank members of LCH, the London Stock Exchange's clearing arm, will soon start offering client clearing of CDS index options, as the industry prepares for its next ramp up of margining requirements

Mezz narrows as CVC prices tightest Euro CLO since February
CVC Credit Partners has priced its latest European CLO with the tightest funding costs since mid-February

Capza closes €1.6 billion private debt fund 75% deployed
The European Investment Fund is among the investors in the fund, according to Debtwire Funds Data

Investcorp partially refis European CLO with four months reinvestment left
Investcorp has partially refinanced its 2014 European CLO, Harvest IX, which ends its reinvestment in August

CSOs and index tranches reach sticking point as correlation gets rich
Credit correlation trading looks to have reached a point of inflexion, as the previous bull run at the lower end of index capital stacks has given way to caution over how much further spread compression can go. At the same time, bespoke tranche business is gaining interest but equity remains stickier to sell at the market's ultra-low spread and volatility levels

CLO pipeline: and breathe... issuance splurge clears the backlog
Over 20 deals remain in the CLO pipeline, despite a glut of issuance last week in which 38 transactions priced, totalling $18.1 billion

Spread tightening picks up with single names making good ground
The credit market rally picked up its pace on Thursday, after several days of more incremental movement. A notable feature is that single names are picking up the shift and in numerous cases outperforming rather than lagging indices

Ares flush with cash after raising €15 billion for European direct lending
Ares Management has raised one of the largest European direct lending funds on record and, with leverage, the fund expects to have a whopping €15 billion to deploy

Carlyle refinances 2014 European CLO
Carlyle Group has partially refinanced the senior most tranches of a 2014 European CLO, cutting the cost of debt by 17.41 basis points

Saipem moves sharply on Mozambique moans
Saipem, the Italian energy engineering group, was a big underperformer in a flattish credit market on Wednesday, as uncertainty over a project in Mozambique weighed on first quarter results and its outlook for the year

Blackstone Euro CLO seniors come at wide end of guidance but mezz beats expectations
GreensLedge and Natwest Markets have made their comeback to European CLO arranging

Standard Life Aberdeen 2 rbrnd 2 Abrdn
Standard Life Aberdeen has announced that it is changing its name to Abrdn (pronounced Aberdeen) 

CLO triple As leak wider but mezz comes in as Carlyle, PGIM and KKR price Euro new issues
CLO heavyweights Carlyle, KKR and PGIM all took to the primary market on Friday pricing a total of €1.22 billion issuance

Loan triple-A buyer adds option to convert, but keeps faith in CLOs
A CLO triple A investor has developed its CLO investment strategy by embedding an option that allows the bank to convert its CLO exposure from loan to note format

Picard and Cleveland-Cliffs underscore high yield single name sensitivity
Picard entered a relief rally on Friday after postponing a triple-tranche bond deal backing a refinancing and shareholder dividend