Landmark new CLOs from Barings and Oak Hill pull triple A spreads to 175bp
Barings and Oak Hill Advisors priced new CLOs on Wednesday, securing the tightest triple A debt spreads since June last year in the process

US CLO pipeline: busy January sets the tone for the year
US CLO new issuance in January has exceeded 2022’s volumes with $6.4 billion priced last month compared to $4.6 billion last year, and the market is showing no signs of slowing down

Barings markets European CLO with fixed and floating rate triple As
Barings is marketing its long-awaited European CLO, Barings Euro CLO 2023-1 via Goldman Sachs

Euro CLO league tables: Jefferies wins at a canter as fellow newcomer Palmer Square wins in new issues
A year of turmoil in the CLO market inevitably led to European CLO issuance dropping in 2022 from its record 2021

Beneath the triple C: Stormy October hits CLOs with rising tide of downgrades
After a slight respite in the pace of downgrades over the summer for CLOs, October brought renewed momentum as macro-economic pressures - primarily high interest rate burdens for corporate borrowers and supply side inflation - became the recurring rationale

Euro CLO league tables: Barings €20 million behind PGIM in overall issuance as Jefferies extends lead
The European CLO manager base reaches 41 as six new issues priced for a total of €1.9 billion

CLOs at a glance (November 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Barings gets short-dated Euro CLO over line with fixed triple A and delayed single B tranches
Goldman Sachs arranged the €301.5 million deal, which as a one-year reinvestment and one-year non-call

CLOs can weather a short recession, but maybe not a long one, conference hears
The US economy is likely to enter a recession in the first half of 2023, attendees at IMN's ABS East conference heard on Tuesday. While the severity of the downturn is unknown despite the Federal Reserve aiming for a 'soft landing', CLOs are well positioned to weather the storm - as long as the recession is contained in a relatively short period

Triple As come at 199bp for Barings CLO
Barings priced a new CLO on Tuesday with a triple A spread of 199 basis points over Sofr

15 CLO managers aim to print European deals as 'aspirational pipeline' forms
European CLO market participants are doubtful the pace of issuance will return to full swing in September, despite a reasonably healthy forward-looking pipeline.

New Barings CLO scores first sub-200bp triple A print since July
Barings broke the US CLO market's issuance drought on Thursday, pricing the first primary transaction of the week and scoring the tightest debt execution since July in the process

US CLO pipeline: Dispersion comes to fore, while Capital Four goes static
The CLO market is heating up once again after the summer lull and pricing has tightened, with at least three US CLO managers looking to match or even best Palmer Square Capital Management’s triple A print of 200 basis points

US CLO pipeline: What takes your fancy? Three years, four years or the full five, we’ve got it all
If you’re looking to invest in a reinvesting CLO, then you have your choice of length as the US CLO pipeline begins to fill with five more forthcomings join four holdovers

CLOs at a glance (August 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Barings explains decision to drop 'fat triple B' from new CLO
Barings has responded to market talk the firm dropped an initial plan to structure a US CLO with a ‘fat triple B tranche’ by saying it "achieved the most economically advantageous and efficiently marketable structure"

Barings prints 1.5-year non-call CLO with mezz and junior notes not offered
Barings priced a new CLO on Friday while an affiliate held the bottom half of the capital stack from single A down

Global CLO league tables - June 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - June YTD

CLOs at a glance (July 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
 
 

   

Barings closes European private credit fund at €7 billion
Barings says it has raised €7 billion for European Private Loan Fund and related vehicles, having deployed €6 billion into 80 transactions of the last 18 months

Barings scores tight debt execution on latest new CLO
Barings priced a new CLO on Tuesday, achieving the third tightest liability pricing for a five-year reinvestment US CLO this month

Global CLO league tables - May 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May YTD

CSAM does the CLO awards double
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it

You seem familiar
The overlap between European CLOs has risen to 51.6%, but the largest issuers are only slightly more aligned to their peers at 55.19% — so bonds are proving to be an important differentiator

Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit