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

AGL cements post-covid US CLO lead with fifth new issue
AGL Credit Management has consolidated its position as the most prolific CLO manager post-covid after becoming the first firm to print five new issues in the US

US CLO league tables: AGL grabs new issue lead
AGL Credit Management has added to an impressive run of CLO deal-making, pricing its fifth US new issue of 2020

AGL again becomes largest US CLO issuer by volume since pandemic sell-off
AGL Credit Management has cemented its position at the top of the 2020 US CLO new issue league tables for the second time in as many weeks, overtaking Redding Ridge Asset Management after pricing AGL CLO 7 on Monday

CLO pipeline: AGL aims high as it prepares fifth new issue of 2020
US CLO managers are sensing opportunities in the CLO market either via new issue CLOs or by refinancing the fixed-rate tranches in their legacy deals

US CLO league tables: refis return as Apollo and Citi maintain leads
US CLO monthly issuance rose above $8 billion in July for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc across the globe

CLO pipeline: Redding Ridge plans fourth US CLO since March
Last week proved to be one of the busiest weeks of the primary CLO market since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with $5.21 billion worth of new paper issuance coming through: eight US CLOs, one middle market deal and three euro CLOs

AGL passes Palmer Square as most prolific US CLO issuer since sell-off
AGL Credit Management has become only the third manager to issue three new CLOs and the most prolific issuer of US deals since the coronavirus-led March sell-off

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