PitchBook, a financial data and software company, has announced a significant expansion of its Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) data, now encompassing the complete historical records of more than 7,000 active and inactive CLO funds across the United States and Europe.
This enhanced dataset offers a comprehensive view into CLO Fund Holdings, Trade History, and Lender Participation, capturing activity from initial issuance through trading. By linking CLO fund activity with detailed insights on underlying debt, borrowers, and issuers, PitchBook aims to provide deeper analytical capabilities and market context for its users. The expansion is designed to enable CLO fund managers and leveraged finance professionals to better analyze performance, strategy, and structure over time, supporting informed decisions related to portfolio allocations, industry exposure, risk appetite, and benchmarking.
CLOs currently account for 60% to 70% of the demand for newly issued leveraged loans in the United States, highlighting their increasing importance in the leveraged finance markets. As CLOs play a crucial role in maintaining liquidity and distributing risk, their influence on market behavior continues to grow. This data expansion reinforces PitchBook’s commitment to delivering timely and accurate insights to its user base.
PitchBook’s broader credit data foundation includes over 65,000 private credit deals, with more than 20,000 transactions added in the last six months, establishing it as a comprehensive private credit deal database. Stephen Burger, Director of Product Management for Credit at PitchBook, commented on the expansion, stating, “The CLO market continues to experience rapid growth, with 2025 issuance projected to surpass $200 billion. As this market expands in scale and complexity, our clients increasingly require a comprehensive, connected view of the entire ecosystem. This latest expansion of our data is designed to meet that need, delivering unmatched historical data that supports informed decision-making at every stage of the credit investment lifecycle from issuance to trading and portfolio management.”
The expanded dataset provides professionals with access to analyze fund structures, holdings, and trading activity across all 7,000-plus CLOs. Key areas of this data include:
* CLO Holdings: Enables precise analysis by grouping holdings by industry, asset type, and investment type for targeted portfolio insights.
* CLO Trade Data: Allows tracking of buying and selling activity over time with advanced filtering options, including trade reason, date, instrument type, trade type, and asset type, to identify market trends.
* Lender Positioning Over Time: Offers historical visibility into lender activity, including duration of position, relative market share, and changes in principal balances.
* Comprehensive CLO Fund History: Provides a robust database of over 7,000 CLO funds, covering active and inactive vehicles, newly issued, refinanced, and reset structures, for a complete view of fund evolution and market dynamics.
PitchBook is a financial data and software company that provides transparency into capital markets for professionals. The company collects and analyzes detailed data across private and public markets, including venture capital, private equity, leveraged loans, private credit, real estate, and CLOs. Its data and analysis are available through the PitchBook Platform, industry news, and reports. Founded in 2007, PitchBook operates globally with over 3,000 team members and serves more than 100,000 professionals worldwide. Morningstar acquired PitchBook in 2016, and it operates as an independent subsidiary.
