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  • CLOs at a glance
    New CLOs this month

    8 months ago
  • We made the most of a tricky situation
    The contrast between 2021 and the following 12 months could not have been starker. But although some heavy hitters remained on the sidelines, 94 US CLO managers priced new deals in 2022

     

    1 year ago
  • Can someone call the triple A? We’ve stalled
    CLO issuers are in need of AAA roadside assistance. Despite the emergence of new buyers, a lack of senior CLO investors — particularly US banks — has brought the primary market to a halt  

    1 year ago
  • We’re drifting apart
    Everyone’s issuing US CLOs these days and it is tempting to believe the crowd of managers is blending into one. However, overall portfolio overlap has dropped to 37.7% across 2021 CLOs  

    1 year ago
  • Arb work pays off
    With day-one arbitrage alone delivering projected CLO cash-on-cash returns of 20-25%, 2021 may have been the best year ever for equity investors — at least until CLO spreads began to widen  

    1 year ago
  • CLO managers show respect to their elders
    Alongside lucrative new issues, managers also make time for refinancing and resetting old deals. Our data shows that, in 2021, mid-sized firms were the most effective at this balancing act

    2 years ago
  • CLO wormhole opens as deal pricing blurs
    The CLO prints you see today might have happened a month ago. No, we’re not travelling back in time. Instead, a trend toward locking in senior notes a month early is skewing market pricing

    2 years ago
  • Coronavirus tiers up old ranking script
    Forget everything you thought you knew about CLO manager tiers. Apollo and Blackstone are mainstays, but smaller, more nimble issuers are finding new ways to stand out from the crowd

    2 years ago
  • Lighten up, these are due an upgrade
    CLO triple C buckets were overflowing last year, but the average exposure is now 7.3%. That is still close to trigger levels, but CLO managers are relaxed, as further loan upgrades are on the horizon

    2 years ago
  • Woah, we’re halfway there
    Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform

    2 years ago
  • CLOs come up smelling of roses
    The coronavirus crisis could have cut back 10 years of CLO market progress, but investors’ foresight, trading chops and flexibility meant many saw their strategies blossom during 2020  

    2 years ago
  • CLOs wheel and deal as overlap increases
    2020 CLOs are a different breed to any other vintage. But this cohort features an overlap of almost 40% as CLO issuers have been forced to focus almost entirely on secondary market loans

    2 years ago
  • Waiting for afters
    Day one arb remains important, but last year there were opportunities aplenty in the secondary market, which put the onus on printing CLOs and waiting for the day after non-call periods expired

    3 years ago
  • We were battered in 2020 — but we weren’t beaten
    The CLO industry has survived a year blighted by covid-19. We talk to portfolio managers about the strengths of CLOs and preparations for what was expected to be a ‘cataclysmic’ recession

    3 years ago
  • It’s been a while — how’s tricks?

    The primary CLO market has been open since April, but 41 managers have not managed to price a US CLO in over a year and a lack of access to equity capital means they may struggle to return

    3 years ago
  • Managers weigh up matters of principal
    CLO managers that were able to avoid OC traps made double-digit equity distributions in Q2, despite the headwinds. But these firms tended not to be among those that built the most par

    3 years ago
  • Loan slump brings managers closer
    A 19% slide in new US loan volumes last year has left CLO managers with fewer options in the primary market, and portfolio overlap between US managers has increased to 35.3% on average

    3 years ago
  • Europe’s newcomers find ways to stand out
    Last year’s new European CLO managers needed to provide something different for investors. In general, they’ve succeeded, with Capital Four having one of the smallest overlap figures in our data

    3 years ago
  • A different kind of crisis
    Panellists on Creditflux’s US CLO webinar were positive about the robustness of CLO structures and the role of cure contributions. But they warned about zombie defaults and gaming tests

    3 years ago
  • CLOs at a glance
    A round-up of CLO primary and secondary

    3 years ago
  • We’ve survived before, we can do so again

    $7.8 billion of CLO collateral, split evenly between the US and Europe, is in the loans that have fallen fastest in the past month. But short term CLO pain will bring opportunities for building par

    3 years ago
  • Making arb work of it

    In 2019, some CLO managers hoped that good timing would enable them to lock in favourable arbitrage levels, but others opted for aggressive or conservative tactics when building portfolios

    4 years ago
  • Repricing spike points to sharp spread compression

    US loan repricing came to the fore in Q4, with higher quality credits hitting the market. The biggest was Refinitv, repricing at 325bp in December. Overall loan volumes fell 37% in 2019

    4 years ago
  • Issuers fashion new outfits for junior mezz

    Junior CLO tranches have lost around five points in the past quarter. In response, new issue desks are dressing up junior debt in two piece suits and designing a range of protective styles

    4 years ago
  • The machines are here to help

    A new generation of AI tools is helping CLO managers optimise their portfolio selection and trading strategies. Sky Road has made great strides in this area by creating a tool which helps identify trades

    4 years ago

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