Invesco scores tightest three-year triple A print with first US CLO in 12 months
Invesco has returned to the CLO primary market with a first new issue deal since October 2019

CBAM prices first five-year CLO since March sell off
CBAM has priced a second US CLO post-covid and its first with a five-year reinvestment period

AGL prices five-year reinvestment CLO to reach $3.7 billion issuance in 2020
AGL Credit Management has reached $3.73 billion new issue CLO volumes for 2020 by pricing its seventh deal of the year, named AGL CLO 9

Ares rides vaccine rally to price tightest three-year US CLO
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

Blackstone revisits Reese Park with post-pricing CLO upsize
Blackstone Credit has become the fourth CLO manager this year to upsize a CLO post-pricing. Reese Park initially priced on 16 October at $408 million and is set to close on 30 November at $510 million, with the addition of new debt tranches paying lower rates of interest

Assured completes first CLO since BlueMountain name change
Assured Investment Management has priced a first CLO under its own moniker. The manager, formerly known as BlueMountain Capital Management, announced its change of name earlier this year, following its acquisition by insurer Assured Guaranty

Three managers print middle market CLOs worth $1.3 billion
Three managers - Apollo affilliate MidCap, Cerberus, and Maranon - brought new CLOs to market backed by loans to middle market companies on Friday. Worth a total of $1.32 billion, the three CLOs account for 16% of 2020 mid market CLO issuance and 21% of total issuance post-covid

Bain prints first European CLO of 2020 via Goldman
Bain Capital has priced its first European CLO of the year, via Goldman Sachs

Pimco prices first CLO in 13 years
Pacific Investment Management Company has made a long-awaited return to US CLOs after pricing its first since 2007

Sculptor CLO refi ends US primary pause with first deal post-election
Sculptor Capital Management on Wednesday priced the first transaction in the US CLO primary market following the US election, bringing to an end the lengthy 16-day pause in dealflow

Neuberger Berman prints first new issue US CLO of November as mezz spreads tighten
Neuberger Berman has brought to an end the CLO issuance drought surrounding the US election by printing the market's first new issue of November

CLO double Bs rally as Bridgepoint prices debut European CLO
Bridgepoint has become the fifth debut European CLO manager in 2020 with the manager pricing Bridgepoint CLO I today via Barclays

IG and crossover indices converge while European CLO double Bs rally
iTraxx Crossover is again outperforming Main today with the investment grade index widening 0.11bp to 52.56bp while the crossover index is 2.42bp tighter to 296.99bp. Meanwhile bank research signals that junior CLO tranches could benefit as investors look at covid industries through a different lense 

European CLO double Bs jump wider amid October macro worries - but seniors stand firm
The fortunes of investment grade and high yielding European CLO tranches have gone in opposite directions in the last month. In a year where relative value has shifted several times, Creditflux analysis shows that new issue European CLO double Bs have blown out by 16.5% in October versus September, while triple A-rated notes have tightened 6.7% in that time

Fed again warns of CLO risks as senior and junior spreads split
The Federal Reserve's latest financial stability report again warns of risks in CLO structures amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic

York executes post-pricing upsize on CLO's floating rate notes
York Capital Management has upsized a US CLO between its pricing and closing dates, mirroring a route taken by PGIM in August

The cost — a few basis points — is modest compared to the potency of bond buckets
If CLOs had bond buckets when Delta Air Lines issued debt, a manager could have bought the bond then rotated into the loan

CLOs at a glance
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

US CLO round-up: 23 managers wait in the wings after avoiding pre-election rush
CLO managers rushed to the primary market last week as they sought to lock in financing before the US presidential elections. This resulted in one of the busiest weeks in the primary market with 10 new issues

Single B notes return as Palmer Square prints third reinvesting US CLO of 2020
Palmer Square Capital Management priced its ninth new issue CLO of 2020 on Friday, teaming with JP Morgan on the $401.1 million Palmer Square CLO 2020-3

Symphony splits CLO tranche to fixed and floating following refi
Symphony Asset Management has split the fixed-rate double A tranche of its 2015 vintage CLO named Symphony XVI as part of a refinancing

Brigade refis bond-flex CLO and junior notes follow order while seniors stand out
Brigade Capital Management has completed a partial refinanced of a bond-flex US CLO and in the process redressed one imbalance in terms of running coupons, while opening up another.

Five-year reinvestment CLOs now market standard after Kayne prices
Kayne Anderson has priced its second CLO post-covid and continued the market's decisive shift towards five year reinvestment periods

Audax brings mid market CLOs under management to $1.5 billion
Audax Private Debt has brought its CLOs under management up to $1.5 billion after pricing its fourth new issue deal via Bank of America

Onex claims three new US CLO equity investors
Onex Credit Partners has confirmed the pricing of a US CLO earlier this week, which it says resulted in three new equity investors to its platform