CLO pipeline: Birch Grove and Fort Washington dish out first 2021 deals as Carlyle goes for sevenths
CLO investors can feast on a range of deals in the new issue market over the next month. 

Ares tightens 2019 CLO by 19bp with reset
Ares Management reset its 2019 CLO, Ares LI, via Barclays on Monday, tightening the deal's capital structure by 18.94 basis points in the process

US CLO pricing lab: expensive legacy deals take priority as two-three year point on term curve tightens
The US CLO market may have gapped out in recent weeks, but expensive 2019 and covid-era CLO refis and resets are still in the money

Ares and Black Diamond become latest CLO managers to refinance
US CLO refi supply climbed to $3.2 billion for the month of July on Thursday after Ares Management and Black Diamond Capital Management became the latest firms to refinance

No summer slowdown for US CLO refis as July volume passes $2.7 billion
Two CLO managers refinanced legacy transactions on Tuesday, bringing total refinancing volume for July to above $2.7 billion

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

Credit fundraising: managers take care of infrastructure with new partnerships
Credit managers were busy launching new partnerships to support growth in infrastructure and CLOs. There were 13 announcements in the month paving the way for upcoming funds, platforms, and joint ventures

Ares scores rare refi of 2018 CLO
Ares has teamed up with Goldman Sachs to print a lesser-seen refinancing of a 2018 CLO: Ares L

CLO equity fluctuates as resets trigger upsizes and downsizes
A once-rare move of CLO issuers upsizing or downsizing their equity tranches in resets is entering the mainstream

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 

Two managers reset huge 2017 CLOs, boosting supply by $2.25 billion
Ares Management and CBAM have each priced resets of CLOs issued in 2017, adding $2.25 billion of supply to the market

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

Not all resets created equal as some managers opt to keep triple C exposure high
A split is emerging in the CLO market, with some managers choosing to keep triple C concentrations elevated following a refinancing or reset transaction. As part of the trend, which began this month, some deals even refinanced while being in breach of portfolio concentration limits, typically set at 7.5% by rating agencies

Canadian pension Imco allocates $500 million to Ares
Investment Management Corporation of Ontario has revealed a $500 million allocation to a large credit manager that includes $400 million to a fund-of-one

New issue CLO dry spell ends as Ares produces tight US deal
Ares Management has broken a six-day new issue CLO drought, teaming up with Goldman Sachs on its second deal of 2021 named Ares LX

CLOs come up smelling of roses
The coronavirus crisis could have cut back 10 years of CLO market progress, but investors’ foresight, trading chops and flexibility meant many saw their strategies blossom during 2020  

LP round up: $3.2 billion flows to 21 managers as private credit illiquidity premium holds firm
Investors allocated at least $3.2 billion to credit managers in April - and direct lending funds were in favour with Churchill and Ares being awarded two mandates

Credit fundraising: three massive European direct lending funds notch up €17.6 bn
Fundraising figures continued upwards in April as just over $24 billion was raised for credit funds, alongside $3.2 worth of allocations to credit managers. Nine funds held final closes including the largest European direct lending fund raised to date

Ares flush with cash after raising €15 billion for European direct lending
Ares Management has raised one of the largest European direct lending funds on record and, with leverage, the fund expects to have a whopping €15 billion to deploy

CLO pipeline: go long! new issues and resets push refis aside
The CLO market is ready to go beyond refinancings - after this year's opening blitz of those deals - into the longer tenored territory of resets and new issues

Credit funds at a glance (April 2021)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves

Ares brings CLO's leverage down to less than five turns in $1 billion-plus reset
Ares Management has upsized its second largest CLO in a reset, bringing the deal to a par value of $1.19 billion - the seventh biggest CLO backed by broadly syndicated loans in the market

Four managers win lucrative $700 million credit mandate
A $39 billion pension has selected four managers for an opportunistic credit mandate and identified a further four ‘bench’ managers 

Ares shaves 20bp off triple As with European CLO partial refi
Ares Management has refinanced the triple A notes on its 2014 vintage European CLO, Ares European CLO VII

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