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Global CLO trading lab: Octagon CLO comes out top in CLO double B spike
2 years ago
Double B-rated bonds made up 40% of the European and US CLO secondary markets last week. $222 million of US CLO double B bonds were on sale and a further €105 million of European CLO double B items were listed -
CLO pipeline: Five out, five in as market digests new issuance wave
2 years ago
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 -
Refi triple As widen as ICG prices partial European CLO refi
2 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group has refinanced the triple A notes on its 2014 European CLO, St Paul’s CLO X, with spreads wide of 2021 averages -
LP round up: $3.2 billion flows to 21 managers as private credit illiquidity premium holds firm
2 years ago
Investors allocated at least $3.2 billion to credit managers in April - and direct lending funds were in favour with Churchill and Ares being awarded two mandates -
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 -
Beneath the triple C: CLOs benefit as upgrades make for lighter triple C buckets
3 years ago
For the first time since the sell off in March last year, downgrades to triple C have come to a near-standstill -
Credit funds at a glance (April 2021)
3 years ago
A round-up of fundraising and people moves -
European CLO repricing volume passes €14bn as ICG resets 2019 deal
3 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group becomes the latest CLO manager to reset a deal, having reworked its 2019 vintage St Paul’s CLO X -
Euro CLO mezz spreads leak wider but seniors hold firm as ICG resets
3 years ago
European CLO mezzanine reset spreads have widened out slightly this week, highlighted by Intermediate Capital Group’s reset of St Pauls CLO VI via JP Morgan -
At least 2020 wasn’t dreadful for CLOs
3 years ago
Last year’s downturn was another in which CLOs survived and in many cases thrived as active management and Libor floors helped managers deliver 13%-plus returns to equity -
Senior Pimco distressed portfolio manager joins ICG
3 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group says that it has hired a senior Pimco official as managing director and co-head of special situations in London -
ICG hires managing director to direct lending business
3 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group has appointed a managing director within its European senior direct lending team -
OC health check: 41 CLOs heal their breaches
3 years ago
147 CLOs breached an over-collateralisation test in October, down from 183 in September. 41 CLOs that breached an OC test in September passed all OC tests in October, most of which had October payment dates -
ICG collects €4.2 billion for senior debt strategy, plans real estate debt fund launch
3 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group collected a further €1 billion for its latest senior debt strategy over the past six-month reporting period, taking the total amount for ICG Senior Debt Partners IV and separate mandates up to €4.2 billion -
LP round up: $2.8 billion flows to credit as Apollo concedes fundraising may slow
3 years ago
Florida Retirement System Trust Fund made the largest commitments allocating $1.6 billion. Apollo meanwhile acknowledged a potential slowdown in fundraising as investors await results on an independent review into CEO Leon Black's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein -
Elements work against CLO managers in Q3
3 years ago
CLO equity distributions fell in Q3 largely due to factors, such as Libor mismatches, that CLO managers can’t control. But these headwinds could turn in favour of managers in the near future -
Global CLO round-up: fresh start for five year deals as market reopens
3 years ago
The CLO market is still producing deals at a good pace, with $2.6 billion of global issuance last week. Four new issue deals priced in the US with Intermediate Capital Group and NYL Investors pricing their first transactions of the year while CVC Credit Partners made it two and Barings three in 2020 -
OC health check: August reports slow torrent of fresh breaches to a trickle
3 years ago
198 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation (OC) breach in August, only three of which were completely new breaches. This is a slowdown from July, when 230 deals suffered some kind of OC breach, according to the latest reports from CLO-i -
ICG opens Milan office
3 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group has announced the opening of an office in Milan -
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 -
European CLO portfolio overlap increases by 3%: S&P
3 years ago
European CLO portfolio overlap for new issue deals since mid-March has increased to 37.73%, according to a recent report by S&P, around 3% higher than the average of 36% for all European CLOs rated by S&P -
LP round up: Connecticut eyes Fortress for private credit partnership
3 years ago
Investors placed $3.3 billion across 26 credit mandates over the past fortnight, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
ICG plans €1 billion European special situations recovery fund
3 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group is targeting a €1 billion final close on its second multi-strategy special situations fund, which aims to exploit opportunities in the loan market arising from the coronavirus-induced pandemic -
Secondary European CLO market kicks into gear with 38 bonds on sale today
3 years ago
The European secondary CLO market is revving up with 38 debt tranches up for grabs across five b-wics today. The auctions take place this morning New York time and feature about €75 million of CLOs from triple As down to single Bs -
OC health check: CLOs heal up with no new breaches among US BSL deals
3 years ago
53 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation (OC) test breach last week, but only two CLOs breached an OC test for the first time, neither of which were US broadly syndicated loan CLOs
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