PennantPark prints this week's second new middle market CLO
Issuance for middle market CLOs by deal count for the week overtook figures for broadly syndicated CLOs on Thursday after PennantPark Investment Advisers priced a new $297.8 million transaction

LP round up: securitised credit mandate terminated amid $5 billion allocations and expanding relationships
Institutional investors revealed nearly $5 billion of allocations to 31 credit managers across January and February board meetings, according to materials seen by Creditflux. However, there were also two fixed income manager terminations, and one multi-strategy account placed on a watchlist

Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs),  Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. 

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub gains ground on Blackstone with rare euro-tranche deal
Four managers - Blue Owl, Golub, Monroe and PennantPark - priced new issue mid market CLOs in September

PennantPark grows mid market CLO volume to $1.5 billion with fifth deal
PennantPark has priced its fifth middle market CLO, growing its total CLO issuance volume to $1.5 billion since making its 2019 debut

PennantPark prints mid market CLO with triple As at 170bp
PennantPark Investment Advisers on Friday priced its first middle market CLO of 2022

Mid market CLO league tables: the only record left to break in 2021
New issuance is still shy of the $16 billion set in 2018, but stands not far off at $15.62 billion

Credit Suisse plans mid market CLO push as it prices PennantPark deal
Credit Suisse arranged its first CLO backed by middle market loans in almost four years on Friday, pairing with PennantPark to print the manager's latest new issue deal

PennantPark closes levered sleeve of private credit fund at $460 million
PennantPark Investment Advisers has closed the levered sleeve of its fifth comingled fund, PennantPark Senior Credit Fund Levered. Its unlevered sleeve, PennantPark Senior Credit Fund, is due to hold a final close in December

PennantPark keeps up fundraising pace with new credit opps strategy
PennantPark Investment Advisers has held a final close for its US middle market opportunistic credit strategy, PennantPark Credit Opportunities Fund III

PennantPark wraps up 2020 with second mid market CLO via GreensLedge and Capital One
New York-based direct lender PennantPark Investment Advisers priced its second CLO in late December, teaming up once more with GreensLedge and Capital One to issue the $300.7 million deal

PennantPark and Pantheon launch private credit joint venture
PennantPark Investment Corporation, a business development company managed by Pennant Park, has paired with Pantheon to form a private credit joint venture

Two roads diverged in the CLO wood

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub and Natixis increase their leads
August saw over $2 billion of issuance in the mid market space with managers that have been active this year, returning managers and debut managers all pricing last month. 

CLOs at a glance

A round-up of CLO performance

PennantPark makes CLO market debut amid fundraising spree
PennantPark Investment Advisers, a New York-headquartered direct lending firm, yesterday priced its first ever CLO, becoming the US market’s eighth debut manager of 2019

Direct lenders brace themselves for distressed opportunities
Credit managers are launching distressed vehicles with a twist by narrowing their focus down to the direct lending market.

PennantPark raises $750 million for direct lending and opportunistic credit
PennantPark Investment Advisers has raised $750 million across four vehicles, according to an announcement

PennantPark wins $80 million for third credit opportunities fund
The new vehicle is the latest in the PennantPark Credit Opportunities series 

Investors block bid by BDC to raise new shares
Tensions grow in the BDC sector between managers seeking growth and shareholders fearing dilution

Mid-market manager launches new credit opportunities fund
New York-based manager has attracted around $40 million for follow-up credit fund, filings show