Sound Point becomes 5th largest CLO manager as Assured deal completes
Sound Point announced the completion of its partnership with Assured Guaranty yesterday jumping Sound Point into position as 5th largest CLO manager in the world.

Former Symphony chairman Stein returns to lead CLO business at large asset manager
Well-known CLO business builder Gunther Stein is set to join a large CLO issuer after four years away from the market 

Sound Point to take on Assured's asset management business in new partnership
Assured Guaranty and Sound Point Capital Management have struck up a partnership, according to an announcement, which will make Sound Point the fifth largest CLO manager globally.

CLO M&A hits new heights with anticipated Assured deal
Last year saw a record M&A volume centred on credit asset managers, with a study by Gapstow revealing the total assets under management of acquired firms was $326 billion, compared to $140 billion in 2021.

Sound Point holding CLO M&A talks which could catapult it to fifth-largest manager
Sound Point Capital Management is locked in talks with a large, global CLO manager over a deal that could take its CLO AUM north of $36 billion

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

Triple As widen to 155bp with latest Assured new US CLO
CLO triple A spreads moved wider again on Tuesday as Assured Investment Management priced the senior notes of its latest deal at 155 basis points over Sofr

Manager tiering crystalises as Assured IM prints five-year reinvestment CLO
Assured Investment Management priced a new CLO named BlueMountain XXXIV on Wednesday,

Three new deals bring weekly US CLO reset volume to $3.9 billion
Three US CLO resets priced on Thursday, bringing weekly reset volume for the week to $3.9 billion across eight transactions

AMMC and Assured refinance CLOs to the tune of $715 million
American Money Management Corporation and Assured Investment Management together refinanced $714.8 million worth of CLO liabilities on Friday

Assured confirms Bain Euro CLO wrap trade
Assured Guaranty has confirmed it guaranteed the triple A tranche of the European CLO

Investors behind CLO guarantees emerge as Assured wraps third deal
A bank and an insurer have emerged as the two investors behind Assured Guaranty’s financial guarantees of recent CLO trades. And Assured Guaranty has provided a guarantee to an investor on a third European CLO

Global CLO trading lab: Seasoned equity prices lag as debt spreads level out
The CLO secondary market took a back seat to the surging primary market in August and September with secondary US CLO volume accounting for just 3.7% and 4.2% of the total US CLO market (primary and secondary volumes). But opportunities are there in CLO equity tranches

US CLO pipeline: 33 new issues enter market with historic CLO records on the verge of shattering
The US CLO market is running as hot as it has all year with a whopping 33 managers marketing new issues CLOs, according to market sources

Financial guarantees make comeback in European CLOs
European CLO tranche insurance has made a comeback, with sources indicating Assured Guaranty has guaranteed tranches in two Euro CLOs for two separate European investors (a bank and an insurance company) in the past month

TriMark court ruling encourages peace between lenders
Many CLO managers breathed a sigh of relief in August, with one source indicating a recent court case decision sent a “clear signal that the spate of lender-on-lender violence in the leveraged loan market will not remain unchecked”

Assured cuts funding costs of 2016 CLO by 21bp with refi
Assured Investment Management has cut the funding costs of its 2016 CLO named BlueMountain 2016-2 by 21.1 basis points in refinancing the deal via Citi

Assured dons classic CLO attire as it prints US deal
Assured Investment Management has gone for the classic look, pricing a deal that bears many of the hallmarks of the archetypal CLO structure

Assured splits triple Bs in reset of 2019 CLO
Assured Investment Management has teamed up with Barclays to reset its 2019 deal BlueMountain CLO XXV

Global CLO trading lab: quality and optionality shine as 2020 and 2019 mezz trades up
The primary and secondary CLO markets are moving in tandem with both markets drifting wider amid a wealth of supply

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

Woah, we’re halfway there
Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform

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

CLO pipeline: busy year, so let's take time to reset
The US CLO market this year has been dominated by new issues and refinancings, but now is the time of the reset judging by this week’s pipeline

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.