Credit funds at a glance (October 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
 

   

ArrowMark fills vacancy in London with SRT hire from sell side
ArrowMark Partners has filled a void in its London office after hiring an SRT specialist from Citi 

ArrowMark targets $300 million for commercial real estate
ArrowMark Partners is targeting $300 million for a structured finance real estate fund

LP round up: Oak Hill wins $300 million for strategic credit and Arcmont eyes fund four
US investors allocated nearly $1.5 billion to credit funds in May, with managers to win mandates including: 400, Accel-KKR, Advent, Arcmont, ArrowMark, Comvest, Edelweiss, Francsico, Oak Hill, Sixth Street and Sprott

US CLO new issuance nears $50 billion in 2022 as Allstate, ArrowMark and Palmer Square price
Allstate, ArrowMark and Palmer Square took to the US CLO new issue market on Thursday following a quiet week of issuance, adding $1.3 billion to the market and bringing CLO issuance year-to-date just shy of $50 billion

Chorus reaches crescendo with big SRT hire
Chorus Capital says it has hired an experienced significant risk transfer official to its investment team and executive committee in London

Re-issues show their worth after mid market deal morphs into BSL CLO
Re-issues are scarce in the CLO market, but a transaction late last year highlights how managers can use these effectively to make radical CLO transformations

Correction: ArrowMark, Octagon and Trimaran print five-year CLOs
ArrowMark Partners, Octagon Credit Investors and Trimaran Advisors each priced a five-year CLO on Monday

ArrowMark refinances 2017 CLO triple A notes
ArrowMark Partners teamed up with Bank of America on Friday to refinance the triple A tranche of its legacy CLO named Elevation 2017-8

Credit funds at a glance (October 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Credit Fundraising: September breaks 2021 record and poses question - is it sustainable?
The third quarter ended with $36.5 billion being raised in credit last month, doubling July and August figures. Several of the new funds have embedded Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation or ESG criteria at the heart of their investment thesis   

Talk about Elevation: US CLO volume soars, with 2018 record bested, as ArrowMark finds its notch
New issue CLO volume in the US surpassed $2 billion for the third business day in a row on Tuesday, and overall yearly issuance hit a new record, as ArrowMark Partners became the latest manager to join the fray

2020 CLOs find redemption is sweet
The believers have been vindicated with 2020 CLOs among the best-performing of all time by IRR. Even those that have been reset have been a success with par flushes making for huge equity distributions.

CLO portfolio manager parts ways with ArrowMark
A US CLO portfolio manager is said to have parted ways with the Denver based firm 

Credit Fundraising: Blue Owl and WhiteHorse gain from improving animal spirits
Fundraising perked up in July as managers raised $14.9 billion for credit funds - the third highest monthly amount this year

Credit funds at a glance (August 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

CLO manager shoots for success with CLO captive fund
A Colorado-based firm has joined a plethora of US CLO managers this year to fundraise for a CLO captive fund

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