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LP round up: Arcmont, Ares and Sixth Street win European direct lending mandates
3 years ago
Investors have allocated around $2 billion to credit funds in recent weeks, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux. Among those to recieve allocations include ADM, Arcmont, Ares, Audax, Bain, Centerbridge, Clearlake, Goldman Sachs merchant banking, Invesco, Monarch, Oaktree, Raven, Sixth Street and Sound Mark -
OC health check: 41 CLOs heal their breaches
3 years ago
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 -
Ares rides vaccine rally to price tightest three-year US CLO
3 years ago
CLO primary spreads have tightened dramatically after Ares Management priced its first US new issue post-election, with weighted funding costs of just 167.38 basis points over Libor -
CLO pipeline: New issuance pause ends as managers look to gain from rallying spreads
3 years ago
It is two and a half weeks since the last US CLO new issue priced, but that is set to change and Bridgepoint’s debut European transaction on Friday brought an end to Europe’s own two-and-a-half-week primary break -
Ares targets $4 billion for junior private credit fund
3 years ago
Ares Management is targeting $4 billion for its latest junior private credit fund, Ares Private Credit Solutions II -
Trimark loan deal splits lenders and sparks complaint in NY Supreme Court: Debtwire
3 years ago
A new super-priority loan issued by Trimark has caused a rift between the company’s lenders and led to a complaint being filed in the New York Supreme Court. -
Six European CLO managers switch to Ireland after Dutch tax hike
3 years ago
European CLO managers have been rapidly shifting their Netherlands-domiciled SPVs to Irish DAC vehicles, according to sources, including PGIM, Barings and Cairn -
Ares holds €6.97 billion first close on European direct lending fund
3 years ago
Ares Management Group has collected $12 billion in gross credit commitments over the third quarter of the year, according to the firm’s earnings presentation, including $8.2 billion for the first closing of its fifth European direct lending fund -
LP round up: EIF backs four debt funds while Carlyle wins $1 billion
3 years ago
Institutional investors have allocated just over $4 billion to 27 credit managers in October board meetings -
Ares prices third new US CLO since April
3 years ago
Ares Management printed its third US CLO post-covid yesterday, bringing its new issue volume amid the pandemic to $1.39 billion -
Former Ares partners put ESG and tech at centre of new CLO business
3 years ago
Three former Ares Management partners have established a CLO business with plans to launch a first US CLO early next year -
Euro CLO round-up: fluctuating spreads give mixed signals
3 years ago
Last week was one of the European CLO market’s busiest since the coronavirus crisis began, as four managers brought new deals to market – adding €1.35 billion -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO mezz tranches widen amid macro concerns
3 years ago
Last week was busy for the primary European CLO market but not for secondary, with €1.35 billion of new issue European CLOs priced across four transactions but just €190 million of European CLO paper listed in b-wics -
CLO pipeline: three behemoths prepare for quick-turnaround new issues
3 years ago
CLO managers have printed at a frenetic pace since the start of the quarter with $3.36 billion of issuance across all CLO markets and pricing types -
Credit fundraising: managers build homes for real estate credit funds
3 years ago
The “largest ever real estate credit fund” was one of the fundraising highlights last month as Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies IV fund reached $8 billion on its final close -
Hayfin partner lands at Ares in London
3 years ago
Ares Management has appointed a former Hayfin official as managing director in the firm’s credit group, focused on alternative credit investments -
Price talk emerges for Ares European CLO
3 years ago
Price talk for Ares' latest Eurpopean CLO has emerged with triple As guided around Euribor plus 110 basis points, in line with deals priced by Barings, CVC and Redding Ridge -
Four US CLO refis highlight diverging manager strategies
3 years ago
Four US CLO managers - Ares Management, GSO Capital Partners, Marathon Asset Management and Voya Alternative Asset Management - have each refinanced fixed-rate CLO tranches, with the four deals totalling $69 million in paper. But new strategies are beginning to emerge -
Ares markets first European CLO of 2020
3 years ago
Ares Management is set to price its first European CLO of 2020 later this month, after an 11-month hiatus from the market -
CLOs hold €250 million of defaulted French events organiser Comexposium
3 years ago
CLOs hold €246.1 million of French events organiser Comexposium, which entered safeguard protection in the Commercial Court of Nanterre on Wednesday -
LP round up: $5 billion flows to credit as private market allocations increase
3 years ago
Global institutional investors allocated nearly $5 billion to credit funds this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
Fracking servicer FTS files for chapter 11 protection
3 years ago
Fracking servicer FTS International filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston yesterday. The credit is not widely featured in CLOs with only nine managers holding $47.9 million of FTI’s term loans -
Ares prices second tightest CLO post-covid with 180.5bp funding costs
3 years ago
Ares Management has priced its second US CLO amid the coronavirus pandemic, securing the second tightest funding costs for a three-year reinvestment deal since the March sell off -
Ares pulls in at least €6 billion for European direct lending
3 years ago
Ares Management is well on track for raising its largest European direct lending fund -
Creditflux awards supplement shows how 2018 CLOs have outperformed
3 years ago
Creditflux is unveiling its CLO Manager Awards supplement today, shedding light on how CLO statistics are varying across vintages. The report finds that 2018 CLOs have been among the best performing of the last decade, capitalising on low financing costs to produce the highest equity distributions
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