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

ArrowMark notches broadly syndicated loan CLO for first time since 2018
ArrowMark Colorado Holdings has brought its first market-standard new CLO since October 2018

ArrowMark completes purchase of StoneCastle's asset manager
ArrowMark Partners has completed the acquisition of financial debt specialist StoneCastle Asset Management

CLO pipeline: make some noise for repricings
CLOs may be a bit late to the spread-tightening party, but a hoard of CLO repricings is aiming to make up for it by sheer volume

Louisiana pension earmarks $30 million for US private credit
This isn’t a first time relationship for the $1.8 billion pension fund, who previously granted  $50 million to the manager's previous fund in October 2018

Clover bankruptcy leaves print marks on CLOs
CLOs hold $256 million of the debt of printing supply company Clover Technologies Group, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday

Global CLO b-wic round-up: secondary market awakens with control equity bonanza
Four anchor positions made available on secondary market as equity accounts for over a third of all volumes.

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub and Natixis increase their leads
August saw over $2 billion of issuance in the mid market space with managers that have been active this year, returning managers and debut managers all pricing last month. 

CLOs at a glance

A round-up of CLO performance

Job opportunity with ArrowMark: research analyst
ArrowMark Partners has released details of a vacancy in its Denver office

Arrowmark prices 4.5-year reset with unusual triple A and double B structure
Arrowmark Colorado Holdings yesterday reset its CLO named Elevation 2013-1, with the first-pay tranche issued in a combo of the triple A and double As in loan format

Arrowmark resets 2017 middle market CLO
Arrowmark Colorado Holdings teamed up with Goldman Sachs on Friday to price a reset of its 2017 middle market CLO known as Peaks CLO 2

THL anchor CLO equity seeks purchase in secondary market
Up for auction later today is the 15th controlling stake in a US CLO this year, with nine of the previous 14 having failed to trade

Clover Tech cov-lite loan blots CLOs after spilling a third of its value
The past week’s biggest declining loan by some way, for printing cartridge maker Clover Technologies (aka 4L Technology), is a worry for CLO portfolios as some 21 managers hold the name, according to CLO-i