Bain completes fourth post-reinvestment CLO refi of 2021
Bain Capital has joined the growing trend of managers to refinance CLOs at the end of their reinvestment periods

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 

Palmer Square sets tight print with first new issue CLO of 2021
Palmer Square Capital Management has priced the first new CLO of 2021, teaming up with Citi to issue the $401.6 million static transaction named Palmer Square Loan Funding 2021-1

Onex prices sixth CLO primary market transaction of 2020
Onex Credit Partners returned to the CLO primary market on Thursday to print its sixth transaction of 2020

PGIM continues drive to bring back pre-covid-style refis with $873.81m deal
PGIM is continuing its crusade to bring back pre-covid-style CLO refis after teaming with Citi on Monday to refinance four floating rate tranches of its 2014 vintage CLO named Dryden 33 Senior Loan Fund

Western makes swift return following June comeback with second new CLO of 2020
Western Asset Management has priced its second CLO of 2020, teaming up with Citi to issue the $355.5 million deal named Crown City CLO II

Barings' CLO team partners with Citi for first CLO as partnership since 2016
Barings has teamed up with Citi to print a new CLO, marking the manager's first partnership with the largest CLO arranger for the first time in over four years

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

CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
Over $3.5 billion of global CLO issuance priced last week and managers in all three CLO markets are taking advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure after three major covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs and increased confidence since the US presidential election

Three managers print middle market CLOs worth $1.3 billion
Three managers - Apollo affilliate MidCap, Cerberus, and Maranon - brought new CLOs to market backed by loans to middle market companies on Friday. Worth a total of $1.32 billion, the three CLOs account for 16% of 2020 mid market CLO issuance and 21% of total issuance post-covid

Sculptor CLO refi ends US primary pause with first deal post-election
Sculptor Capital Management on Wednesday priced the first transaction in the US CLO primary market following the US election, bringing to an end the lengthy 16-day pause in dealflow

Neuberger Berman prints first new issue US CLO of November as mezz spreads tighten
Neuberger Berman has brought to an end the CLO issuance drought surrounding the US election by printing the market's first new issue of November

Correction: JP Morgan shifts bulk of CLO portfolio to held to maturity
JP Morgan has shifted two thirds of its CLO portfolio to the 'held to maturity' part of its balance sheet, posting $31.15 billion worth of CLO holdings on 30 September of which $20.95 billion were held to maturity

IG and crossover indices converge while European CLO double Bs rally
iTraxx Crossover is again outperforming Main today with the investment grade index widening 0.11bp to 52.56bp while the crossover index is 2.42bp tighter to 296.99bp. Meanwhile bank research signals that junior CLO tranches could benefit as investors look at covid industries through a different lense 

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 league tables - October 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - October 2020 YTD

WTW to tackle lack of diversity across investment industry
Progress on diversity across the investment industry is “disappointingly slow”, according to research from Willis Towers Watson

Credit rally rolls on as indices approach one-month tights
CDS indices are approaching their mid-October tights as reality seeps in of a divided US government and, consequently, little chance of dramatic corporate tax increases. Yesterday, iTraxx Main led the way, tightening 5.3%, followed by CDX NA HY and CDX IG (both 4.5%) and iTraxx Crossover (2.8%)

High yield outperformance to bring compression trade back into play: Citi
High yield underperformance versus investment grade is expected to reverse following the US presidential election, according to a strategy note from Citi. The bank’s strategists have been advocating compression trades since July and feel that there is more room for this to run citing election trends, exposure to coronavirus credits, expected default rates and credit ratings

Sound Point grows reinvestment period with second European CLO of 2020
Citi has teamed up with Sound Point Capital Management to price a €340.2 million deal named Sound Point European CLO IV

CLO Census results: Citi comes out top but several banks make big leaps
Citi has been voted top in five out of the eight primary CLO categories as part of the 2020 Creditflux CLO Census, but BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Natixis are among the banks that have made huge strides compared to last year

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

Elmwood officially reopens CLO reset market with five-year extension of debut deal
Elmwood Asset Management has completed the US CLO market's first reset transaction for almost eight months, after teaming up with Citi to reset its debut CLO from 2019 named Elmwood CLO I