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ESG factors show up in leveraged loan pricing in US
2 years ago
Environmental, social, and corporate governance factors are filtering through to the US CLO market and influencing loan prices -
Credit fundraising: three massive European direct lending funds notch up €17.6 bn
2 years ago
Fundraising figures continued upwards in April as just over $24 billion was raised for credit funds, alongside $3.2 worth of allocations to credit managers. Nine funds held final closes including the largest European direct lending fund raised to date -
LP round-up: $2.6 billion flows into 26 credit managers
3 years ago
A stuck ship in the Suez Canal may have prevented others from getting through one of the world's busiest waterways in March, but allocations to credit funds were much more free flowing as investors poured over $2.6 billion into the hands of credit managers -
Aegon and BlackRock join group of single B CLO issuers with resets
3 years ago
Aegon USA Investment Management and BlackRock each priced a CLO reset on Tuesday that included a single B-rated tranche -
BlackRock drags CLO spreads tighter with latest reset
3 years ago
BlackRock teamed up with Citi on Thursday to print a $499 million reset of its 2019 vintage CLO named Magnetite XXI - and dragged the CLO market tighter in the process -
BlackRock scores biggest mid market CLO since 2018
3 years ago
BlackRock has teamed up with Barclays to print a second CLO backed by loans to middle market companies following its buyout of Tennenbaum Capital Partners in 2018 -
BlackRock brings three-year US CLO triple As inside 100bp
3 years ago
BlackRock has priced a three-year reinvestment CLO via Morgan Stanley with the triple As yielding just 99 basis points over Libor -
Europe leads corporate credit rally, but US outperforms in CLOs
3 years ago
iTraxx Crossover has been the CDS market's outperformer this week, tightening over 30 basis points, or 11.4%, to trade at 235bp today. But in the CLO market, US deals have come out on top thanks to a BlackRock CLO that priced its double Bs at some of the tightest levels this year -
Double B spreads shrink to just 635bp as BlackRock prints tightest CLO yet
3 years ago
BlackRock has once again priced the tightest three-year reinvestment CLO post-covid, repeating a feat it last acheived back in September -
CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
3 years ago
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 -
WTW to tackle lack of diversity across investment industry
3 years ago
Progress on diversity across the investment industry is “disappointingly slow”, according to research from Willis Towers Watson -
Points up front: (Direct) lending a helping hand in an emergency
3 years ago
Global lockdowns this year may have forced us to confine ourselves to our homes, but for BlackRock’s co-head of US direct lending they opened a window of opportunity -
BlackRock prices first middle market CLO following Tennenbaum buyout
3 years ago
BlackRock has priced its first CLO backed by loans to middle market companies since acquiring private credit manager Tennenbaum Capital Partners in 2018 -
BlackRock co-head of direct lending set to depart
3 years ago
The co-head of direct lending at BlackRock and Tennenbaum Capital Partner’s special situations unit is set to leave the firm by the end of the year -
CLO pipeline: fixed income giants plan debut 2.0s with Morgan Stanley
3 years ago
Two large fixed income managers are pre-marketing debut 2.0 CLOs -
BlackRock cuts CLO double A coupon with fixed-rate refi
3 years ago
BlackRock has priced a fixed-rate CLO tranche refinancing, teaming up with Mizuho to cut the coupon on the double A notes of Magnetite XII -
LP round up: $5 billion flows to credit as private market allocations increase
3 years ago
Global institutional investors allocated nearly $5 billion to credit funds this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
BlackRock prices tightest post-covid CLO by far
3 years ago
BlackRock has priced a new issue CLO named Magnetite XXVIII via Barclays, scoring by far the tightest post-covid debt execution -
CLO pipeline: managers large, small and new ready to price in post-Labour Day surge
3 years ago
US managers are preparing a wave of new issue CLOs in the coming days, as the usual post-Labour Day pricing surge comes to fruition even in this most unusual of years -
Fund performance: Almost a third of credit funds reach positive YTD returns
3 years ago
July has been a successful month for many credit funds, despite the recovery peaking in May and June -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO triple As finally rally while European investors go ‘all in’
3 years ago
A huge supply of $731 million of US CLO triple A bonds pushed US CLO secondary volumes to just shy of $1.5 billion last week -
Spreads tighten as GoldenTree and BlackRock print tightest CLO triple As since March
3 years ago
The CLO market moved tighter on Friday as GoldenTree Loan Management and BlackRock each priced new issues with triple As at 155 basis points over Libor, scoring a new record print following the coronavirus sell off in March -
Loan slump brings managers closer
3 years ago
A 19% slide in new US loan volumes last year has left CLO managers with fewer options in the primary market, and portfolio overlap between US managers has increased to 35.3% on average -
Primary equity investor shortage fuels issuance fear
3 years ago
A lack of demand for primary equity could lead to a drought of new CLO issuance in the second part of this year -
Loan slump brings managers closer
A 19% slide in new US loan volumes last year has left CLO managers with fewer options in the primary market, and portfolio overlap between US managers has increased to 35.3% on average
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