HIG WhiteHorse adds Dach head to European direct lending team
HIG WhiteHorse has hired a former Barings official as principal and head of the Germany, Austria and Switzerland region 

LP round up: big name managers win direct lending mandates amid $1.5 billion allocations
Apollo, Ares, Barings and CVC were among the beneficiaries of the direct lending rush in May 

Credit fundraising: Audax scores big in lighter month
Fundraising markedly dropped in May, but credit funds still amassed $12.8 billion and 10 credit funds reached final closes across a variety of different strategies

Credit funds at a glance (June 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Post-covid CLO reset market heats up as Jocassee, PGIM and Oaktree price
The post-covid CLO reset spree is well underway as three managers - Jocassee Partners, PGIM and Oaktree Capital Capital Management - reworked deals that originally issued in April or May 2020

LP round up: $3.2 billion flows to 21 managers as private credit illiquidity premium holds firm
Investors allocated at least $3.2 billion to credit managers in April - and direct lending funds were in favour with Churchill and Ares being awarded two mandates

Market absorbs three CLO refinancings worth $1 billion
Apex Credit Partners, Barings and Voya Investment Management have each refinanced a CLO, with the three deals totalling $1.02 billion

2012 and 2019 US CLOs get new lease of life as Barings and CVC hit reset
CVC Credit and Barings each tapped the CLO reset market on Friday, bringing total US reset volumes for April up to $4.15 billion

Euro CLO triple Bs widen to 375bp as manager prices second new issue in four months
Euro new issue CLO triple Bs have widened since the start of the year, averaging 344bp in March, up from 320.3bp in February and 306.6bp in January, according to Creditflux data  

Global CLO b-wic round-up: record level of CLO paper stalls rally
Record levels of primary and secondary CLO supply has left investors spoilt for choice and led to the CLO rally stalling

Barings' new US CLO joins group of tight 2021 prints
Barings has produced its first new CLO of 2020, teaming up with JP Morgan on the $359.2 million deal named Barings CLO 2021-I

Past returns: Highland sells European CLOs at second attempt
In Creditflux 10 years ago, we reported that Highland Capital Management was offloading its European CLOs, with Alcentra and Barings among the frontrunner

CLO pipeline: US adds deals at frenetic pace as Europe catches breath after record start
US CLO investors have numerous deals to consider with 13 new issues and 15 repricings being prepared to flood the market in the coming days

At least 2020 wasn’t dreadful for CLOs
Last year’s downturn was another in which CLOs survived and in many cases thrived as active management and Libor floors helped managers deliver 13%-plus returns to equity

Barings' CLO team partners with Citi for first CLO as partnership since 2016
Barings has teamed up with Citi to print a new CLO, marking the manager's first partnership with the largest CLO arranger for the first time in over four years

OC health check: 41 CLOs heal their breaches
147 CLOs breached an over-collateralisation test in October, down from 183 in September. 41 CLOs that breached an OC test in September passed all OC tests in October, most of which had October payment dates

Elements work against CLO managers in Q3
CLO equity distributions fell in Q3 largely due to factors, such as Libor mismatches, that CLO managers can’t control. But these headwinds could turn in favour of managers in the near future

Six European CLO managers switch to Ireland after Dutch tax hike
European CLO managers have been rapidly shifting their Netherlands-domiciled SPVs to Irish DAC vehicles, according to sources, including PGIM, Barings and Cairn

European CLO managers switch legacy deals to originators ahead of Brexit deadline
A few European CLO managers are undertaking house keeping ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period in January, by switching the method by which their legacy CLOs comply with risk retention from sponsor to originator

Credit fundraising: Dubai manager gets in on the act as direct lending takes off
Shuaa launches credit fund in the Gulf as Ares, Contingency, HPS and Perceptive are among those to close billion-plus funds

Credit Rendezvous: sometimes you have to dive deep to find value
Some parts of the credit market are fraught with danger, but that does not mean portfolio managers are avoiding them entirely, according to the Credit Rendezvous, Creditflux's 10-page quarterly report eaturing comments from 15 credit experts

Barings promotes PM to lead European CLO unit
Barings has promoted two members of its European CLO management team, one of which becomes the new head of its European CLO management business

Credit fundraising: managers build homes for real estate credit funds
The “largest ever real estate credit fund” was one of the fundraising highlights last month as Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies IV fund reached $8 billion on its final close

Global CLO round-up: fresh start for five year deals as market reopens
The CLO market is still producing deals at a good pace, with $2.6 billion of global issuance last week. Four new issue deals priced in the US with Intermediate Capital Group and NYL Investors pricing their first transactions of the year while CVC Credit Partners made it two and Barings three in 2020

Barings prices second US CLO in a month
Barings has stepped up the pace of its US CLO issuance, pricing its second 2020 new issue yesterday less than one month after pricing its first