AGL and PGIM reset and upsize 2020 CLOs
AGL Credit Management and PGIM are the latest managers to reset post-covid CLOs issued in 2020, with both managers opting to upsize their deals

Lighten up, these are due an upgrade
CLO triple C buckets were overflowing last year, but the average exposure is now 7.3%. That is still close to trigger levels, but CLO managers are relaxed, as further loan upgrades are on the horizon

CLO pipeline: queue gets longer as Blackstone goes again and Sancus makes first move
The queue to price for US CLO managers is only getting larger with 18 new issue CLOs in the pipeline, according to market sources, along with 18 repricings and two new issue European CLOs and two mid market CLO resets

AGL focuses on ESG-compliance with $603.7 million CLO via BofA
AGL Credit Management has teamed up with Bank of America to issue a new $603.7 million CLO named AGL CLO 12

CLO pipeline: Five out, five in as market digests new issuance wave
Five new issue US CLOs priced from last week’s pipeline, but five more have replaced them in this week's edition of our pipeline report

CLO pipeline: new issue becomes name of game with 14 managers preparing to price
Only $3.2 billion of CLO paper priced globally across all forms of pricings this past week. But the market looks to set to explode back into life with 14 US CLO new issues in the pipeline

AGL 2021 new issue CLO volume tops $1 billion after second deal
AGL Credit Management priced its second CLO of the year on Tuesday, raising its 2021 new issue volume to $1.01 billion in the process

Global CLO trading lab: secondary volumes inflate and easily get absorbed
Weekly secondary CLO volume has been lower across the capital structure in recent weeks as 2021’s refinancing wave left investors with plenty of choice

AGL cuts debt cost by 123bp in first reset of post-covid CLO
AGL Credit Management has become the first CLO manager to reset a post-covid CLO outside of static-to-static transactions

A brighter year ahead
Panellists on Creditflux’s CLO webinar described how CLO spreads are close to historic tights, ESG is entering the docs and managers have more flexibility with work-outs than ever before

They said it:"I incubated what became AGL inside a family office"
On Creditflux’s CLO webinar last month, AGL founder Peter Gleysteen reveals that the fastest-growing CLO manager in the business started life as part of the family office of private equity pioneer Thomas Lee

AGL nears triple-A benchmark with CLO, but mezz prints wide of guidance
AGL Credit Management has issued US CLO triple A notes paying 113 basis points over Libor in an indication that the firm is pricing closer to benchmark levels. Bbut AGL CLO 10, which priced via JP Morgan on Friday, printed its double As and triple Bs wide of early price guidance.

CLO pipeline: snow business like the CLO business
CLO issuers are putting aside the cold snap and are warming up with a flurry of deals.

AGL hires ex Wells Fargo CLO research head Preston
AGL Credit Management has hired former Wells Fargo CLO research head David Preston

US CLO league tables: AGL and JP Morgan topple leaders in new issuance, but Apollo and Citi maintain overall dominance
Only 13 months after setting up shop, AGL Credit Management vaulted itself to the top of the US CLO new issue league tables in 2020

Global 2020 CLO league tables
Global 2020 CLO league tables 

We were battered in 2020 — but we weren’t beaten
The CLO industry has survived a year blighted by covid-19. We talk to portfolio managers about the strengths of CLOs and preparations for what was expected to be a ‘cataclysmic’ recession

US CLO league tables: new issue rankings go to wire as post-pricing upsizes pop up
The new issue US CLO rankings are tightly contested with JP Morgan leading Citi by just $641 million with one month left of the year. Even in December's typically slower weeks this is a closeable gap 

Global CLO league tables - November 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - November 2020 YTD

AGL prices five-year reinvestment CLO to reach $3.7 billion issuance in 2020
AGL Credit Management has reached $3.73 billion new issue CLO volumes for 2020 by pricing its seventh deal of the year, named AGL CLO 9

CLO pipeline: New issuance pause ends as managers look to gain from rallying spreads
It is two and a half weeks since the last US CLO new issue priced, but that is set to change and Bridgepoint’s debut European transaction on Friday brought an end to Europe’s own two-and-a-half-week primary break

US CLO league tables: JP Morgan nips ahead of Citi as debutants pour in
JP Morgan has surged to the top of new issuance rankings following a busy September and October in which the bank was lead arranger for 10 new CLOs totalling $3.9 billion

Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO mezz tranches widen amid macro concerns
Last week was busy for the primary European CLO market but not for secondary, with €1.35 billion of new issue European CLOs priced across four transactions but just €190 million of European CLO paper listed in b-wics

European CLO leverage battered

CLO rally keeps primary market flowing for most prolific issuers
The rally in CLO liabilities in September has given fresh impetus to the primary CLO market, which has benefitted from almost six months of favourable market dynamics