US CLO pricing lab: expensive legacy deals take priority as two-three year point on term curve tightens
The US CLO market may have gapped out in recent weeks, but expensive 2019 and covid-era CLO refis and resets are still in the money

AGL and Partners upsize legacy CLO deals with resets
AGL Credit Management and Partners Group each priced a CLO reset on Monday, with both firms opting to upsize their legacy deals in the process

Partners prints its largest CLO in over two years
Partners Group has priced its largest new US CLO in over two years, teaming up with Credit Suisse to print the deal

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

Partners prints five-year European CLO with ESG-scored deal
Partners becomes second European CLO manager to breakthrough the five year reinvestment period

CLO pipeline: queue gets longer as Blackstone goes again and Sancus makes first move
The queue to price for US CLO managers is only getting larger with 18 new issue CLOs in the pipeline, according to market sources, along with 18 repricings and two new issue European CLOs and two mid market CLO resets

Partners joins ESG-scoring CLO managers but standardisation doubts persist
Partners will implement its scoring system across its European CLOs, US CLOs and non-CLO funds

Global CLO pricing lab: investors get over fatigue and embrace reset roll over
The demand for CLOs is showing no signs of slowing down after the market had experienced some fatigue at the end of the first quarter and into the second. In the last two weeks, there have been 47 CLO transactions across all forms of pricing in the three markets; led by 18 US CLO new issues

Partners saves 55bp with reset of post-covid CLO
Partners Group has reset a post-covid CLO priced in May 2020, pulling the vehicle's funding costs 55 basis points tighter in the process

Credit fundraising: ESG centre stage as capital pours into new strategies
Sustainability was the watchword for fundraising in February, amid a flurry of fund launches as well as first closes for impact funds and sustainable bond funds

AMMC, Marble Point and Partners Group each price US CLO refis
Three CLO managers have priced CLO refinancing transactions, with the three deals combining to a total of $1.03 billion. It brings the total volume of US refi paper in 2021 to $4.94 billion since the new year - just $180.9 million short of total post-covid refis in 2020

European reset wave begins as Partners reworks 2018 CLO
Partners Group’s Penta CLO 5 has become the first European CLO to reset in 2021

Partners teams up with Barclays for first time on new five-year CLO
Partners Group priced its seventh US CLO on Tuesday, and its first one globally to be arranged by Barclays

Partners lines up first European CLO reset in 11 months
Partners Group is laying the groundwork to print one of the first CLO primary transactions in Europe of 2021, having teamed up with BNP Paribas to issue a reset of a 2018 vintage deal

Partners triggers frequency switch event on European CLO
Partners Group has made the rare decision to flip the frequency switch on one of its European CLOs

DFG appoints CEO and makes several promotions including new co-CIO
A Partners Group official has been appointed chief executive officer of DFG Investment Advisers in New York as the firm makes several leadership promotions

Credit Suisse registers €1 billion euro CLO issuance in October as Partners prices
October European CLO issuance stands at just over €2.7 billion, the largest monthly volume since the March sell-off

OC health check: CLOs wake up when September ends
September showed a slight but clear improvement in CLOs’ over-collateralisation test results as 182 CLOs breached an OC test during the reporting period, compared to 198 in August.

CLO pipeline: fixed income giants plan debut 2.0s with Morgan Stanley
Two large fixed income managers are pre-marketing debut 2.0 CLOs

Global CLO b-wic round-up: dealers get involved amid rally, but dispersion persists
The CLO secondary markets returned to form last week with $716.2 million of US CLO bonds and a further €306.5 million of European CLO paper listed. Although for both markets over half of the total volume listed came from Thursday’s scheduled b-wics

Secondary European CLO market kicks into gear with 38 bonds on sale today
The European secondary CLO market is revving up with 38 debt tranches up for grabs across five b-wics today. The auctions take place this morning New York time and feature about €75 million of CLOs from triple As down to single Bs

Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO lower mezz spreads tighten back after volatile two weeks
Secondary CLO spreads in the US and European markets have recovered after moving wider over the last two weeks

Double B CLOs on downgrade watch up for grabs as market eyes tightening
CLO double B spread averages tightened 24.44 basis points on Wednesday, ending a 22-day widening streak. On Thursday, a b-wic of seven CLO double Bs goes live at 11am New York time and should clarify if spreads will tighten further

Credit Suisse prices one-year reinvestment CLO for Partners
Credit Suisse has priced its fist CLO since 27 February with a $301.3 million new issue for Partners Group named Pikes Peak 6, according to market sources

New slate of US CLOs shows evolving term curve
Three new CLOs are forthcoming from Partners Group, Gulf Stream Asset Management and Onex Credit Partners with each manager opting for a different reinvestment strategy