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CLO Benchmarking Brief

What can you see when the whole CLO market is in view?

The CLO market rewards whoever sees it clearly first.

Octus pairs real-time reporting from a dedicated CLO team with liabilities and fundamental data on roughly 3,300 public and private issuers, so you hand-select the peer set that fits your portfolio instead of accepting a generic list of comps.

Download a working comparison of five notable 2025-vintage deals (Carlyle US CLO 2025-1, Rockford Tower CLO 2025-1, Palmer Square CLO 2025-1, Balboa Bay Loan Funding 2025-1 and OCP CLO 2025-40), weighted against the market average on spreads, leverage, coverage and portfolio quality, with manager and sector rankings you can rebuild around your own peer set.

What's in the brief

Financials

  • Swap trustee-reported spread and cost of debt for Octus-calculated figures, deal by deal
  • Weigh leverage and interest coverage against the 2025-vintage benchmark
  • Track LTM revenue growth from 2023 to now

Sector and manager benchmarking

  • Rank the top 15 US and European managers on leverage, coverage and revenue growth
  • Isolate B3-or-lower exposure to see which managers hold up under stress
  • Break down fundamentals across all 11 GICS sectors in the USD and EUR BSL universe

Market trends

  • Chart primary spreads and secondary BWIC flows through the year
  • Watch coverage cushion shrink as leverage climbs, a trend running since 2021
  • Size up USD BSL, EUR BSL and global CLO issuance

Octus CLO data, intel and analysis

Structured Finance Insights

Gain clarity on CLOs and manager performance with comprehensive CLO market news, data and portfolio analytics.

  • Develop unique insights with proprietary CLO intel
  • Track sub-investment grade fundamental performance
  • Access precise benchmarking for CLOs and portfolio distributions
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Octus is easy to use; quick platform, concise data. – Credit Analyst, Barings

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Structured Finance Insights: Octus CLO data and market insights platform