Mid market CLO league tables: Antares and Wells Fargo press reset to lead market
Following March's $5.87 billion, the busiest month of mid market CLO issuance since at least 2016, April felt like a quiet month for mid market CLOs with $2.26 billion pricing across three new issues, two resets and one partial refinancing

Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD

Structurers tempted by buy-side perks amid CLO bonanza
Do you have experience structuring CLOs? If the answer is yes, then your skills are in demand, with asset managers keen to add CLO capital markets specialists amid the onslaught of CLO transactions that have taken place this year

Market absorbs three CLO refinancings worth $1 billion
Apex Credit Partners, Barings and Voya Investment Management have each refinanced a CLO, with the three deals totalling $1.02 billion

AB and NXT reset middle market CLOs
AB Private Credit Investors and NXT Capital both reset middle market CLOs on Thursday with the two deals adding a further $740.8 million to primary market supply

CLO pipeline: and breathe... issuance splurge clears the backlog
Over 20 deals remain in the CLO pipeline, despite a glut of issuance last week in which 38 transactions priced, totalling $18.1 billion

CLO risk retention financier hires Natixis structured credit syndication head
Natixis is the latest bank to lose a senior member of its CLO team 

LCM enters 2021 market with largest new CLO in over three years
LCM Asset Management issued its first new CLO of the year on Friday, teaming up with Natixis on the deal named LCM 32

Natixis poaches New York-based CLO sales specialist from Deutsche Bank
Natixis has hired a CLO sales specialist in New York in a move which reunites two former Credit Suisse officials 

CLO pipeline: European new issues set to resume but managers seek pricing stability
The CLO pipeline is heavy with reworked deals - and anticipation - as 14 US CLO and one European CLO refinancings feature, along with nine US CLO and six European CLO resets

Natixis IM hires CEO with incumbent Raby set to depart
Natixis Investment Managers has hired Generali's chief investment officer to lead the firm from 12 April

Benefit Street prints its largest CLO since 2017
Benefit Street Partners priced its largest CLO in over three-and-a-half years on Tuesday, teaming up with Natixis on the $609 million deal named Benefit Street Partners XXII

Weekly refi volume passes $5 billion as five CLOs price
Another $2.06 billion of CLO refinancings priced in the US on Friday, bringing the weekly total to over $5 billion

CLO pipeline: Carlyle eyes fourth new issue in two months but refis and resets dominate
Manager focus has shifted to reworking vintage CLOs to lower funding costs in a much tighter market, with the new issue US market having slowed

Ares affiliate re-emerges in mid market with first primary CLO for three years
Ivy Hill Asset Management, the direct lending affiliate of Ares Management, has priced its first CLO primary market transaction in almost three years, completing a $499.3 million new issue backed by loans to middle market companies

Five Arrows and Natixis refinance 2015 CLO for second time
Five Arrows Managers and Natixis teamed up to refinance Ocean Trails VI for the second time on Friday

CLO double Bs hit 2021 wides as Bain injects equity into 2014 European reset
CLO double B reset levels tightened in February but have since widened to 710bp

Refis price on top of new issues as four managers print US CLOs
Four US CLO refinancings priced yesterday, giving the impression that CLO pricing is fitful and the term curve flat

Golub goes from fixed to mixed in mid market CLO refi
Golub Capital Partners has refinanced the fixed-rate tranches of its 2017 vintage middle market CLO named Golub Capital Partners CLO 34(M), converting the bonds into a mix of fixed and floating-rate liabilities in the process

Ares joins group of tight US issuers with sixth tightest 2021 CLO
Ares Management became the eighth CLO manager of the year to issue a five-year deal with funding costs below 150bp on Tuesday by teaming up with Natixis on its latest issue named Ares LIX

Mid market CLO league tables: Billion dollar reset and tech CLO kick-start issuance
Mid-Market springs to life as winter winds down

Mid market CLO spreads reach tightest point since 2018 as Fortress prices new issue
Four-year triple A spreads on middle market CLOs reached new post-covid tights on Friday as Fortress Investment Group issued a deal with first-pays at just 155 basis points over Libor

Four managers print $1.5 billion CLO refis
Four CLO managers - CVC Credit Partners, CarVal Investors, Ellington Management Group and Neuberger Berman - each priced a CLO refinancing transaction on Friday

Pacific returns to CLO primary with tightest three-year reset
Pacific Asset Management priced its first CLO primary market transaction in over 12 months on Friday, teaming up with Natixis to reset its debut deal, Trestles CLO 2017-1

KKR pushes for nearly five-year reinvestment as Redding Ridge resets €554 million CLO
The European CLO reset wave is proceeding apace with KKR and Redding Ridge pricing deals on Tuesday