Sagard and HalseyPoint partnership prints first CLO
Sagard-HalseyPoint CLO 8 is the first CLO from the manager since alternative asset manager Sagard acquired a 40% stake in HalseyPoint back in March

HalseyPoint resets BSL from early in the COVID era
HalseyPoint has reset HalseyPoint CLO II, a US BSL deal from June 2020, marking the first CLO activity by the manager in 2024

HalseyPoint structures new CLO to comply with EU risk retention rules
HalseyPoint Asset Management's volume of CLOs under management surpassed three billion for the first time on Wednesday after the firm teamed up with Barclays to print its seventh deal

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

Gap between primary and secondary CLO triple As widens in bumper trading week
There was over $1 billion of CLO paper available in the secondary market last week and a central theme has been demand for triple A-rated notes

HalseyPoint pairs with Goldman on sixth CLO
HalseyPoint Asset Management priced a $491.7 million new CLO on Friday, bringing its deals under management to $2.74 billion across six transactions

US CLO pipeline: Blackstone goes for 10 with tightest triple As of August
Blackstone Credit is marketing its latest CLO, Storm King Park, which will be the manager’s tenth US new issue of the year

Digital CLO refis show worth as way of sticking by Libor
When regulators outlined that Libor would not be used on primary market transactions in 2022, they probably did not contemplate CLO refinancings sticking to the benchmark (refis are deemed to be primary market transactions)

HalseyPoint keeps Libor-linked CLO notes after digital refinancing
HalseyPoint Asset Management has cut the funding costs of its 2020 CLO named HalseyPoint CLO II, managing to keep the notes linked to Libor by selecting a digital dutch auction to reprice the notes

HalseyPoint passes $2 billion of CLOs under management with largest deal yet
HalseyPoint Asset Management priced its fifth - and largest - CLO on Friday, bringing its issuance volume since inception to $2.25 billion

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

HalseyPoint brings CLOs under management to $1.75bn with fourth deal
HalseyPoint Asset Management issued its fourth CLO on Friday, bringing its total CLO volume under management to $1.75 billion

CLO pipeline: go long! new issues and resets push refis aside
The CLO market is ready to go beyond refinancings - after this year's opening blitz of those deals - into the longer tenored territory of resets and new issues

Global CLO b-wic round-up: equity trades break new records as investors look to redeploy cash
The CLO secondary market is experiencing heavy churn with €273.5 million of European CLO paper and $1.05 billion of US CLOs listed last week. Within that supply, a record trade for a 2.0 European CLO equty tranche was recorded 

HalseyPoint opts for rare four-year reinvestment structure in CLO
HalseyPoint Asset Management returned to the CLO primary market yesterday, pricing its largest new issue to date

CLO pipeline: primary tightening opens door for CLO managers to print new issues
The CLO primary market is hitting a fast pace as it enters the last quarter of 2020. Last week brought a surge of new issuance as 11 US, two European and one mid market CLO manager priced their latest transactions

Trading places: it can pay to bet on the little guy
It’s assumed investors know how good a CLO manager is by the rate at which they trade their way through a crisis. But this time fi ve small, nimble managers are outperforming the market

HalseyPoint 'plays to its strengths' with $378 million US CLO
HalseyPoint Asset Management has priced its first new CLO following the coronavirus outbreak, and its second since making its debut in CLOs last year

US CLO league tables: CSAM makes it three in a row as Citi completes a clean sweep
The US CLO market suffered a drop in volume last year with $149 billion of issuance, down 43% on 2018’s $262.5 billion. But the heavy slump was not across all forms of CLO pricing, as new issues once again crossed $100 billion and only suffered a 6.5% fall

HalseyPoint debuts in CLOs after two-and-a-half month ramp up
Start-up manager HalseyPoint Asset Management priced its debut CLO yesterday with founders Lynn Hopton and Yvonne Stevens informing Creditflux that their inaugural CLO was ramped up over just two-and-a-half months.

HalseyPoint markets debut deal with single Bs as senior US CLO spreads gap wider
HalseyPoint Asset Management is marketing a debut US CLO, which brings a return to CLO issuance for experienced portfolio managers Lynn Hopton and Yvonne Stevens

CLO pipeline: high triple C bucket opens a Gateway to pricing
In less than ideal market conditions, even experienced CLO managers are learning new tricks to keep the pipeline full. Of the 11 US new CLOs that appear in the pipeline this week, two are high triple C bucket transactions

Credit funds at a glance

New generation of US CLO managers battle to join industry top ranks
The US CLO manager base is growing at its fastest rate for years, with new firms springing up all over the country to issue these transactions

New CLO manager HalseyPoint makes four senior hires to investment team
HalseyPoint Asset Management, a Los Angeles-based startup CLO manager, has announced four senior hires at managing director level to its investment team