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CLO managers went to CCC, to see what they could CCC…
4 years ago
CLO portfolios are drifting towards low single B and triple C names. But triple C buckets are not in danger of overflowing, so managers can be even more aggressive -
US CLOs thrive as managers embrace secondary loan market
4 years ago
Leveraged loan issuance is supposed to feed and keep CLOs healthy, but a 62% slowdown in US loan volumes this year was accompanied by average CLO equity distributions ticking 19% higher. -
Rival manager’s warehouse contributes to new CIFC US CLO
4 years ago
CIFC Asset Management has had a productive year after pricing four new issue US CLOs but sources say that the manager’s latest deal, CIFC Funding 2019-IV, owes a lot to another CLO manager. -
US loan trading: CLO managers on cloud nine after Ultimate Software allocations
4 years ago
CLO managers took down about 27% of Ultimate Software's loans in April, when the cloud operator issued its $2.3 billion first lien term loan due 2026, according to CLO-i -
Cayman Island hopping: EU laws provoke switch in CLO listings
5 years ago
The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) is set to become the listing place of choice in 2019 for CLOs put together by US managers — at least, according to a bold prediction by law firm Harneys. -
Being fully invested can have a greater impact on IRRs than avoiding 2% defaults annually
5 years ago
The IRR differential can be as much as 3.3% for a fully invested CLO versus one that maintains a 5% cash balance -
Doing CLOs is hard work as recovery lags
5 years ago
There’s scrutiny on staffing, structures and, of course, ‘the challenging arb’. But Q4 volatility created opportunity, which led speakers at the Creditflux CLO Symposium to ask for more -
Baird targets CLO arranging business
5 years ago
A New York brokerage with a CLO trading business is making a pitch to be the first debut arranger of the year. According to market sources, RW Baird has hired CLO origination specialist Mario Verna with a view to building out a CLO primary business. In March, Verna left Guggenheim Securities, where he served on the CLO desk as a managing director. -
Gateway sees an opening for CDOs with flexible mandates
5 years ago
Gateway Credit Partners is taking an unconventional route towards building a corporate credit management platform by creating its business around CDOs -
Loan trading round-up: CLO managers fall out of love with First Data
5 years ago
An analysis of loan trading among CLO managers in February shows that First Data is falling down the pecking order with managers selling $182 million of the company's loans -
Large, liquid loans aren’t always perfect
5 years ago
CLOs could be forgiven for rushing to buy Refinitiv loans — after all it was the biggest LBO since the crisis. But some large managers have abstained, while others have bought opportunistically -
Moving on from the late 2018 hangover
5 years ago
It might be too early to call a full recovery, but it’s fair to say that the US loan market is back on track with $48 billion of institutional issuance in 2019 — 88% of which is made up of new issues -
Loan sell-off leaves some CLO warehouses out of the money
5 years ago
The December sell-off in the loan market may have been good for CLO equity but it left many warehouses out of the money, according to several sources -
Podcast: Secondary loans rebound, CLOs widen and covenants deteriorate
5 years ago
Creditflux, Debtwire and Xtract discuss the current state of the market -
Q4 2018, which had loan price volatility without defaults, was close to nirvana for CLO investors
5 years ago
The current vintage of CLOs could be the best ever if the volatility in Q4, when retail funds dumped loans, repeats itself, says our columnist Thomas Majewski -
CLO issuance will temper as market remains in 'exploratory mode', notes BAML research
5 years ago
Following a bout of volatility in the loan market, CLO issuance will be tempered as debt and equity investors rediscover correct pricing levels, according to a new research paper published this week by Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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