Octagon becomes first US manager to complete three 2021 CLO refis
Octagon Credit Investors paired with Citi for another CLO refinancing

Credit Rendezvous: heading for homes
Fund managers in structured credit, real assets and distressed are bullish on the prospects for residential housing in 2021. Elsewhere, niche royalty-based strategies are in favour and although a CLO repricing wave is expected, it may not be easy to execute resets. For more, read our 13-page quarterly report on credit. 

CIFC upsizes US CLO by $100 million before pricing
CIFC Asset Management teamed up with Royal Bank of Canada to print its first new CLO of 2021 on Friday. The deal, named CIFC Funding 2021-1, was upsized by $100 million before pricing

US CLO spreads take big stride tighter as GoldenTree prints triple As at 107bp
CLO spreads tightened substantially on Friday after GoldenTree Loan Management priced its first new issue deal of 2021 with triple As paying just 107 basis points over Libor

Golub upsizes 2019 CLO with five-year reset
Golub Capital Partners has teamed up with Bank of America to reset its 2019 vintage CLO named Golub 41(B)-R for an extra five years of reinvestment

January US CLO refi volume overtakes 2020 post-covid volume
Two CLO managers - Voya Financial and Sound Point Capital Management - priced CLO refinancings on Friday worth a total of $621.9 million, bringing total refi volume for January up to $5.56 billion

Eaton Vance resets debut 2.0 CLO for a second time
Eaton Vance has reset its debut 2.0 CLO from 2013 for a second time, renewing the deal named Eaton Vance CLO 2013-1

Sculptor prints first regular-way US CLO in 1.5 years
Sculptor Capital Management made a grand return to the CLO primary market on Thursday with its first regular-way new issue deal for 1.5 years

KKR prices three-year reinvestment CLO via BNP Paribas
KKR Credit teamed up with BNP Paribas on Thursday to print a $402.3 million three-year reinvestment CLO named KKR 29

AMMC, Marble Point and Partners Group each price US CLO refis
Three CLO managers have priced CLO refinancing transactions, with the three deals combining to a total of $1.03 billion. It brings the total volume of US refi paper in 2021 to $4.94 billion since the new year - just $180.9 million short of total post-covid refis in 2020

Benefit Street resets 2014 US CLO on its reinvestment date
Benefit Street Partners has reset its 2014 vintage CLO named Benefit Street Partners CLO IV for a second time, and on the day it was scheduled to leave its reinvestment period

Partners teams up with Barclays for first time on new five-year CLO
Partners Group priced its seventh US CLO on Tuesday, and its first one globally to be arranged by Barclays

Sculptor readies first new US CLO since 2019
Sculptor Capital Management is preparing a comeback US CLO via Bank of America

PGIM prints first fixed-rate CLO refi of 2021
PGIM has priced the first single-tranche fixed-note CLO refinancing of 2021, a type of CLO primary transaction popularised in 2020 following the coronavirus outbreak

CSAM prices benchmark three-year CLO in largest deal for almost two years
Credit Suisse Asset Management has priced the largest US new issue in almost two years, with the Madison Park Funding XLVIII CLO coming on Friday at roughly $850 million

Five-year CLO triple As rally to 124bp with Sixth Street US deal
Five-year US CLO triple A spreads have reached 124 basis points after Goldman Sachs priced a $430 million long-reinvestment CLO for Sixth Street Partners on Friday.

Three transactions take 2021 CLO refi volumes over $3.5 billion
Another three CLO refinancing transactions priced in the US on Friday, bringing the total volume across refis, resets and reissues in 2021 up to $3.58 billion

Seix CLO passes AMR refi test at second auction
Seix Advisors successfully executed a digital refinancing of its 2019 vintage CLO named Mountain View XIV on Thursday via the applicable margin reset (AMR) process

US CLO spreads grind tighter with Gulf Stream five-year deal
Gulf Stream Asset Management has priced its third CLO since refashioning itself for the 2.0 era, bringing its total CLOs under management up to $1.4 billion

Bain completes fourth post-reinvestment CLO refi of 2021
Bain Capital has joined the growing trend of managers to refinance CLOs at the end of their reinvestment periods

Refis, resets and reissues back in vogue as four US CLO managers print deals
Various shades of CLO refinancings dominate the US CLO primary market with four deals - two refis, a reset and a reissue - printing on Wednesday for a total volume of $1.1 billion. This surpassed all US CLO refinancings in the six months from March to September last year

MJX prices second CLO transaction of 2021
MJX Asset Management has become the first manager to price a second CLO primary market transaction in 2021

MJX prints first reinvesting CLO of the year
MJX Asset Management has become the first CLO manager to print a reinvesting new issue transaction in 2021, teaming up with Jefferies as lead arranger and Bank of America as co-arranger on the $507.3 million deal, named Venture 41

Trinitas teams up with Natixis to refinance amortising CLO tranches
Trinitas Capital Management, the CLO management vehicle linked to Dallas-based Whitestar Asset Management, has priced its first transaction in the CLO primary market of 2021

Blackstone refinances mezz tranches of 2018 bond-heavy CLO
Blackstone Credit has teamed up with GreensLedge to refinance the mezzanine debt notes of a 2018-vintage inaugural bond-heavy CLO named Cirrus Funding 2018-1