ArrowMark prints eighth Goldman-arranged CLO
ArrowMark Partners has teamed up with Goldman Sachs to issue its second new CLO of 2021

LP round up: big name managers win direct lending mandates amid $1.5 billion allocations
Apollo, Ares, Barings and CVC were among the beneficiaries of the direct lending rush in May 

CLO pipeline: queue gets longer as Blackstone goes again and Sancus makes first move
The queue to price for US CLO managers is only getting larger with 18 new issue CLOs in the pipeline, according to market sources, along with 18 repricings and two new issue European CLOs and two mid market CLO resets

ArrowMark features unusual tranche split in first reinvesting CLO for 12 months
ArrowMark Partners has priced its first reinvesting CLO transaction post-covid. The manager teamed up with Citi to print the $412.2 million deal named Elevation CLO 2021-12

LP round up: Dutch pensions put €1.3 billion into infra debt
Institutional investors allocated over $2 billion to credit funds in January. Opportunistic credit funds were a favourite but the biggest moves came in infrastructure debt

LP round-up: investors gift private debt and leveraged loan RFPs over holiday season
2020 ended on a strong note with four institutional investors increasing asset allocation to private debt or initiating private debt and leveraged loan searches. ArrowMark, Banner Ridge, BBAM, HIG Whitehorse, Monroe and Rialto were also awarded mandates

OC health check: 41 CLOs heal their breaches
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

Long awaited comeback as ArrowMark brings first CLO reset since Q1
ArrowMark Colorado Holdings has reopened the market for CLO resets after pricing the first in more than eight months

Voya and ArrowMark refinance fixed triple A CLOs
Voya Investment Management and ArrowMark Colorado Holdings have each refinanced triple A-rated fixed CLO tranches. The two transactions both priced yesterday and total $29.5 million

CLO reset market set to reopen after eight months as ArrowMark plans deal
ArrowMark Partners is marketing the US CLO market's first reset since February, as the industry takes another step on the path back to normality

Three CLO managers join rush to refi or reprice fixed rate CLO tranches
Three CLO managers - American Money Management Corporation, Teachers Advisors, and ArrowMark Colorado Holdings - have jumped on the fixed rate CLO refinancing or repricing trend

Hildene to take over management of ground-breaking trups-style CLO
Hildene Capital Management is in line to take over the collateral management contract for the first trups-style securitisation since the financial crisis

Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO lower mezz spreads tighten back after volatile two weeks
Secondary CLO spreads in the US and European markets have recovered after moving wider over the last two weeks

Double B CLOs on downgrade watch up for grabs as market eyes tightening
CLO double B spread averages tightened 24.44 basis points on Wednesday, ending a 22-day widening streak. On Thursday, a b-wic of seven CLO double Bs goes live at 11am New York time and should clarify if spreads will tighten further

OC health check: CLOs heal up with no new breaches among US BSL deals
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

OC health check: some CLOs cure failures, but quarter of US deals still in breach
117 deals failed over-collateralisation tests in the last week, although only 46 of these were deals reporting breaches for the first time, according to the latest reports available on CLO-i

Fund managers gear up for talf 2.0 investment potential
Institutional investors have been pouring money into the talf-focused (term ABS loan facility) funds, with ArrowMark, Loomis Sayles and Nuveen among the managers to benefit

MJX portfolio manager joins US CLO issuer
A member of MJX's investment committee has landed at another CLO manager 

Points up front: Liquidating CLO can’t escape Standard & Poor’s
With over 1,000 CLO tranches on watch across the big three rating agencies, it’s good to see rigorous standards are being maintained and little things like CLO liquidation are not excusing deals from detailed scrutiny

OC health check: first senior breach in middle market pushes CLO tally to 13
41 CLOs have breached an overcollateralisation test in the last week, according to the latest trustee reports on CLO-i, taking the overall total to 182

ArrowMark prices static US CLO as spreads drift wider
ArrowMark Partners has priced a static US CLO with triple As at 250 basis points, matching the print from GSO's Stratus Funding 2020-1 (another static deal) at the start of April

ArrowMark markets static US CLO
ArrowMark Partners is working with Goldman Sachs on a static US CLO, according to market sources

US pension gains 6.5% in three days after putting $350 million into credit
Marathon, Waterfall, ArrowMark and Columbia were allocated $350 million from a US pension for structured credit, Talf and high yield mandates

New CLO affected as Fitch puts eight US single A tranches on negative watch
Fitch Ratings today added another 19 CLO tranches to its negative watch list, including eight that an original rating of single A, according to a statement from the rating agency

ArrowMark liquidates 2014 CLO after selling assets in February
ArrowMark Colorado Holdings has liquidated its CLO named Elevation CLO 2014-3