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Beneath the triple C: downgrade rate slows as $8 billion of CLO loans tumble
3 years ago
May offered some respite to CLO portfolios as corporate downgrades to triple C were reduced heavily - affecting just $6.67 billion of US CLO paper and €1.09 billion of European CLO portfolios -
Anchorage explores possibility of first five-year CLO structure post-coronavirus
3 years ago
Anchorage Capital is testing the waters for the first five-year reinvesting CLO structure since the pandemic-led downturn -
Onex hires Jaber as it launches CLO investment business
3 years ago
Onex Credit Partners has hired Ronnie Jaber to start a CLO investment business in New Jersey, according to an announcement today -
Bond flex CLOs makes rapid MVOC recovery to underline evolution from CBOs
3 years ago
Bond flex CLOs, much like regular CLOs, are feeling the pain from March's sell off, but they have made a swift recovery -
It's confirmed: loans are not bonds in " victory for the flow of capital to American businesses"
3 years ago
You're a loan. No, nothing to do with lockdown and social distancing. It's actually a victory for the $1.2 trillion US loan market as a court ruling finds that loans are not securities in the long-running Kirschner v. JP Morgan Chase case -
Credit markets adjust to stay-at-home rules
4 years ago
Lockdown orders across the world have forced the loan and CLO markets to modernise certain industry practices at speed, leading to speculation that some of the emergency measures adopted could become permanent, according to market participants -
If history repeats itself, the best CLO play could be to hold equities
4 years ago
After a futile scramble for liquidity, LyondellBasel filed for bankruptcy in the early morning hours of 6 January 2009. Bad luck for CLO managers that were holding the loan? Not at all -
Beneath the triple C: $31.6 billion of CLO credits feel downgrade pain
4 years ago
March madness took a toll on CLOs as Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s downgraded 4.25% of the portfolios in the US and 1.84% in Europe to triple C or below in just one month (some of these were already triple C rated, only to fall further). -
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
The last few weeks have affected the way everyone goes about their daily routine. To make things slightly easier for our readership, subcribers can receive the April Creditflux newsletter at their home addresses -
Managers seeking bond buckets will need high yield track record
4 years ago
US CLOs could soon be permitted to buy corporate bonds amid an overhaul of the Volcker rule, but market sources say that in the short term bond flexibility is a luxury that will only be afforded to a select group of CLO managers. -
European CLO managers with big bond buckets do best, finds Bank of America
4 years ago
European CLO managers that trade in the secondary market and hold a higher percentage of fixed rate assets are likely to outperform their peers, Bank of America finds in latest research -
Anchorage lands first bond-flex CLO after Volcker u-turn
4 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group has priced its first new issue bond-flex CLO of 2020 -
Volcker amendments will be good for CLO equity and bad for CLO debt, says Wells Fargo
4 years ago
Proposed changes to the Volcker rule announced last week by the Federal Reserve, which would allow CLO managers to hold 5% bond buckets, are positive for CLO equity and ‘marginally negative’ for CLO debtholders, according to a research paper from Wells Fargo -
High yield pioneer Shenkman joins roster of bond-flex CLO issuers
4 years ago
Romark Credit Advisors, the CLO manager linked with Shenkman Capital, has joined the exclusive but growing group of bond-flex CLO managers -
Fed gives green light to CLO bond buckets
4 years ago
The Federal Reserve has published a reproposal to the covered funds definition in the Volcker rule that should give a green light to the return of 5% bond buckets in US CLOs -
Anchorage prices second-ever reset in bond securitisation market
4 years ago
Anchorage Capital Group priced a reset of 2015-vintage bond-flex CLO Anchorage Credit Funding 2 on Friday, completing just the second CBO reset in this market’s history -
MUFG adds to US leveraged finance unit with senior hire from Deutsche Bank
4 years ago
A senior credit specialist has left Deutsche bank in New York after 10 years in order to join MUFG -
We need to talk about high triple C/bond-heavy CLOs
4 years ago
It’s tranched, has exposure to corporate credit and looks and behaves a lot like a CLO – only it’s slightly different. There is so much variety in the CLO market that the industry is faced with a dicey problem: how do we differentiate between the different flavours of CLOs? -
Fortress prices its first CBO of the year
4 years ago
Fortress Investment Group priced its first new issue CBO of the year on Friday via GreensLedge, the lead arranger on the deal, and Natixis -
Former DFG CLO head resurfaces at Silver Rock
4 years ago
CLO specialist Tim Milton has landed at Silver Rock Financial, it has emerged -
CBOs aren’t fixated on interest rate moves
4 years ago
The loan sell off at the start of this year highlighted that CBOs are not a play on interest rates or bond prices — they’re taking advantage of the flexibility to rotate between loans and bonds -
US insurer to allocate $1 billion across CLO tranches, corporate loans and bonds
4 years ago
Managers have until Tuesday to submit proposals to New York State Insurance Fund, which is seeking CLO, bank loan and high yield corporate bond managers to invest $1 billion in separately managed accounts -
Diameter circles back to CBO market with its second transaction
4 years ago
Diameter Capital Partners yesterday priced its second CBO, just five months after issuing its first, according to market sources -
Capital structure emerges for forthcoming debut CBO from Sculptor
4 years ago
Sculptor Capital Management is set to join the ranks of the world’s CBO managers, according to market sources
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