CSAM scores $732 million with largest CLO refi of 2021
Credit Suisse Asset Management priced the largest CLO refinancing transaction of the year on Monday, teaming up with Barclays to refi $732 million notes from its 2018 vintage CLO named Madison Park Funding XXXII

CSAM and NYL hit market with $1.2 billion of CLO refi paper
Credit Suisse Asset Management and New York Life have eached priced a CLO refinancing, with the two transactions totalling $1.17 billion

Global CLO league tables - January 2021
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CSAM prints tightest CLO since 2018 in first-ever deal with RBC
Credit Suisse Asset Management has brought the CLO market to new tights as its latest new issue scored funding costs of just 152.94 basis points over Libor

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US lower mezz trades strong, but European piece softens
CLO investors have had no chance to catch their breath after a historic 2020 as US CLO secondary volume reached $3.3 billion and European secondary listings topped €1 billion in January

CSAM hires head of origination for direct lending team
Credit Suisse Asset Management has hired an experienced official to its direct lending team in New York

CSAM prices benchmark three-year CLO in largest deal for almost two years
Credit Suisse Asset Management has priced the largest US new issue in almost two years, with the Madison Park Funding XLVIII CLO coming on Friday at roughly $850 million

Three transactions take 2021 CLO refi volumes over $3.5 billion
Another three CLO refinancing transactions priced in the US on Friday, bringing the total volume across refis, resets and reissues in 2021 up to $3.58 billion

2020 wrap: CLO funds bloom despite rocky ground
2020 was a busy year for CLO fundraising, with Creditflux recording at least 30 funds that launched over the 12 months to invest across the CLO capital structure

CLO issuers flex their bond muscles
Some panellists at Creditflux’s US CLO Investor Summit pointed to structural difficulties, but the consensus was that flexibility — particularly the ability to buy bonds — could improve performance

Equity investors call time on CSAM bond-flex CLOs
Two of Credit Suisse Asset Management’s three bond-flex CLOs were called by their equity investors in October, according to notices seen by Creditflux, despite both deals being within their reinvestment periods

CSAM refis fixed-rate notes from 2018 CLO
Credit Suisse Asset Management has tapped the CLO primary market to refinance the fixed-rate notes of its 2018 vintage deal, Madison Park Funding XXXI

CSAM refis fixed-rate notes from 2018 US CLO
Credit Suisse Asset Management has refinanced the fixed-rate triple As from its 2018 CLO, Madison Park Funding XLIV

Relative value has shifted towards CLO double Bs, conference hears
CLO double B tranches are on course for significant spread tightening, according to participants on day one of Creditflux's CLO Investor Summit on Thursday

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

Six European CLO managers switch to Ireland after Dutch tax hike
European CLO managers have been rapidly shifting their Netherlands-domiciled SPVs to Irish DAC vehicles, according to sources, including PGIM, Barings and Cairn

US CLO round-up: 23 managers wait in the wings after avoiding pre-election rush
CLO managers rushed to the primary market last week as they sought to lock in financing before the US presidential elections. This resulted in one of the busiest weeks in the primary market with 10 new issues

CSAM returns to five-year CLO structures with new issue deal
Credit Suisse Asset Management priced its third new issue US CLO post-covid on Thursday, and its first with a full five years of reinvestment

CSAM closes its first-ever commingled CLO equity focused fund
Credit Suisse Asset Management has completed the final close of its inauguarl commingled fund geared towards CLOs

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

CSAM strikes private credit partnership with Qatar Investment Authority
Credit Suisse Asset Management has signalled a big push into private credit, striking a direct lending partnership with its Quatari-based stakeholder Qatar Investment Authority

Global CLO b-wic round-up: dealers get involved amid rally, but dispersion persists
The CLO secondary markets returned to form last week with $716.2 million of US CLO bonds and a further €306.5 million of European CLO paper listed. Although for both markets over half of the total volume listed came from Thursday’s scheduled b-wics

CLO pipeline: managers large, small and new ready to price in post-Labour Day surge
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

CLO pipeline: a marathon for some, a sprint for others
Following a week in which there were three US CLO refinancings, one new issue CLO and one upsizing, three more US CLO managers are marketing latest new issue CLOs after varying times away

CSAM jumps in on fixed CLO refi craze
Credit Suisse Asset Management has become the latest manager to refinance a fixed-rate CLO tranche, bringing the total refi volumes since April to over $600 million