CLOs

The $500.25 million Magnetite XXI has a three-year reinvestment period and can be called after just one year; it also priced inside most other deals that came to market in February.

Tobacco-industry loans are rare assets for CLOs, but Sound Point is ensuring none will go into its CLO XII portfolio for the remaining 20-month reinvestment period.

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Concerns about risks in the leveraged loan market, as well as the potential impact of new capital rules for Japanese banks, continue to weigh on collateralized loan obligations.

Not every tranche of notes originally issued by ALM XIX has been upsized by the same amount; in fact, some of the lower-rated tranches have been cut in size.

Expect even more actively managed CRE CLOs to be issued this year as investors get more comfortable with the idea of managers using proceeds from the repayment of collateral to acquire new bridge loan.

The €400 million RRE 1 Loan Management DAC has a 4.5-year reinvestment period and two-year non-callable period, according to presale reports.

The selloff in the CLO market in the fourth quarter of last year may have caused Eagle Point Credit Co. some short-term pain, but the closed-end investment firm expects to profit from it in the long term.

The partnership with Hallows HalseyPoint to step up the pace of recruitment of analysts and traders and open a warehouse line for loan accumulation by the end of May.

OHA Credit Funding 2 offers nine classes of fixed- and floating-rate notes backed by corporate senior loans, including a rare tranche of single-B rated notes.

Octagon Investor Partners 40 limits “covenant-lite” loans to 60% of its portfolio, below the 65% cap on it's previous new-issue deal completed in November.

Although mostly active as a middle-market CLO manager, asset manager Golub Capital is printing a new open-market CLO sourced by its large-corporate loan investments.

The global insurance firm, which operates a three-year-old CLO management affiliate, has now launched private credit unit that will pursue controlling interests in deals managed by others.

Howard Goldwasser and Skanthan Vivekananda will be based in New York and Los Angeles, respectively.

Golub Capital BDC has also obtained shareholder approval to boost leverage, but David Golub said this was designed to give the middle-market lender more flexibility.

The firm founded by mortgage veteran Michael Vranos looks for leveraged loans it considers "misrated" with strong covenants; many of these loans also amortize relatively quickly.

The 131 basis-point spread for Buckhorn Park CLO is 14 basis points wider than Blackstone's previous deal in November, but in line with peer deals from recent weeks.

The New York and Israel-based investment management startup selected the initial collateral using machine-learning decisions; AI will also be used in determining when to sell consumer loans in the portfolio or buy additional assets.

About half of collateralized loan obligations purchased loans at prices below face value in order to boost the par value of assets, improving overcollateralization.

That's one notch lower than the sponsor's prior deal; the only substantial change is the valuation of securities that are deferring dividend payments.