CLOs

DFG Investment Advisers, led by former Goldman and HVB Group veterans, will exceed $4.2B in CLO assets under management with the latest deal.

The $502 million Diamond CLO represents the first securitization of small/medium enterprise loans since Blackstone in the second quarter relaunched a direct lending business.

Once refinanced, the $406 million Park Avenue Institutional Advisors CLO 2016-1 will be non-callable for two years and can be actively managed for up to five years.

The $449.2 million Carlyle Direct Lending CLO 2015-1R is the 11th deal the global alternative asset manager has refinanced this year.

Execs at both closed-end funds say expectations for an eventual rise in defaults are driving their strategy to extend reinvestment periods on CLOs in their portfolios.

The distressed-debt manager now manages 26 U.S. CLOs totaling $15.5 billion, the most of any domestic CLO market manager.

The £325 million Dryden 63 CLO, sponsored by PGIM, will issue six classes of sterling-denominated notes; Barclays’ £4.5 billion Sirius Funding is issuing three tranches in three different currencies.

The eligibility criteria for loans that can be acquired are “more liberal” than recent CRE CLOs rated by Kroll; they are also more liberal than those of Hunt’s initial CRE CLO, completed last year.

While Carlyle has been judicious with new issuance, it had a busier second quarter in refinancing older deals; several more will be ripe for refinancing in the third quarter.

Mindful Wealth, an investment firm based in Singapore, is raising money to put to work in some of the riskier tranches of U.S. collateralized loan obligations, those rated BBB and B.