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14% of 2016 CLOs left waiting amid refinancing wave
One of the most prominent CLO market trends this year is the relative decline of the refi compared to previous eras, as wider spreads make these often costly transactions less economical. But one vintage has stood out as an exception: CLOs issued in 2016 have driven 65% of refi activity this year

CVC teams up with RBC for reset and upsize of 2012 CLO
CVC Credit Partners came to market yesterday with a short reset of its 2012 vintage deal Apidos XI

HPS and Nomura team up in first-time CLO partnership
HPS Investment Partners has teamed up with Nomura for the two firms' first CLO transaction as a partnership

Bain prices CLO refi as fresh supply of unrefinanced 2016 paper dwindles
Bain Capital Credit has become the latest manager to refinance a 2016 CLO after pricing a $462 million deal via MUFG

Arrowmark prices 4.5-year reset with unusual triple A and double B structure
Arrowmark Colorado Holdings yesterday reset its CLO named Elevation 2013-1, with the first-pay tranche issued in a combo of the triple A and double As in loan format

Sound Point refinances single tranche of 2016 CLO
Sound Point Capital Management yesterday brought its 2019 deal count up to eight transactions after refinancing the triple A piece of its 2016 deal Sound Point CLO XIV

CSAM prices second largest CLO refi of 2019
Credit Suisse Asset Management took 21.98 basis points off the funding costs of its 2016 CLO Madison Park Funding XXIV via refinancing

Arrowmark resets 2017 middle market CLO
Arrowmark Colorado Holdings teamed up with Goldman Sachs on Friday to price a reset of its 2017 middle market CLO known as Peaks CLO 2

Euro CLO spreads could tighten further as Spire targets 105bp triple A print
Spire Partners is looking to bring Europe’s CLO market even tighter as it readies a reset of its inaugural deal named Aurium CLO I

Fresh ideas blow in from the west
As Creditflux hosted its first conference in California, the hub of US innovation, it was no surprise that new ideas such as applicable margin resets and high triple-C buckets were on the agenda

PineBridge refi shows steep term curve in European CLO market
PineBridge Investments has refinanced its 2016 vintage CLO named Euro Galaxy V, according to market sources

Ares refinances single tranche of 2016 CLO
Ares Management returned to the CLO primary market on Friday to price its seventh transaction of 2019

Investcorp refinances 2016 US CLO
Investcorp has joined the list of managers refinancing 2016 vintage CLOs after pricing a $368 million deal with GreensLedge

Eaton Vance refinances its debut 2.0 CLO
Eaton Vance turned to Goldman Sachs on Friday to refinance its first post-crisis CLO from 2013, according to market sources

LCM refinances senior tranches of 2013 CLO
LCM Asset Management has refinanced its 2013 vintage CLO named LCM XIII via Barclays in a deal worth $375.55 million

Sound Point resets 2015 CLO with just days of reinvestment remaining
Sound Point Capital Management has squeezed in a $470 million reset of 2015’s Sound Point CLO IX just days before it left its reinvestment period

Alcentra scores tightest 1.5-year US CLO spread after 2016 deal refinancing
Alcentra has refinanced a single tranche of its 2016 CLO named Shackleton 2016-IX

Benefit Street slashes 32bp from 2016 CLO's funding costs via refi
Benefit Street Partners teamed up with Citi on Friday to refinance Benefit Street Partners CLO X, according to market sources, slashing 31.96 basis points from the deal’s weighted funding costs

Carlyle teams up with Morgan Stanley to reset post-reinvestment CLO
Carlyle Group priced its ninth CLO transaction of the year on Friday, becoming the second manager after PGIM to achieve the feat

Five Arrows and Natixis refinance 2016 vintage CLO
Five Arrows Partners has cut the funding costs in its 2016 deal Ocean Trails CLO VI by over 67 basis points via refinancing

Short-dated CLOs still have life in them

PGIM goes all in as it refis 2016 CLO for second time
Having refinanced the junior debt in a US CLO last year, PGIM has refied the entire capital stack of its 2016-vintage CLO

Global CLO b-wic round-up: secondary volumes make up for slump in primary
June saw the highest volume of US CLO b-wics this year with over $3.8 billion of US CLOs on the auction block, according to CLO-i. 

Axa IM prices first CLO refinancing since 2017
Axa Investment Managers refinanced its 2016 CLO, Allegro CLO IV yesterday via Goldman Sachs. The $440 million transaction knocks 22 basis points off of CLO’s funding cost from 200.1bp to 178.1bp.

PGIM resets January 2019 'print and sprint' CLO for three years
PGIM has teamed up with Jefferies to reset its ‘print and sprint’ CLO from earlier this year, extending the deal’s reinvestment period for three years