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CLO pricing holds up against omicron as liquid credit takes a hammering
2 years ago
Being illiquid sometimes has its advantages, with the CLO market the picture of serenity as CDS swings imply volatility is afoot -
The Last Tranche with Napier Park's Secmen: tailwinds fuelling CLO market mask manager incompetence
2 years ago
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Serhan Secmen, head of US CLO investments at Napier Park Global Capital, joins to discuss how equity investors choose which managers to allocate to for the best long-term performance -
Treasury desk lists $818 million b-wic as hedge fund looks to offload control CLO equity in bumper day
2 years ago
State Street once again listed over $800 million of US CLO triple A bonds on Tuesday, having sold $834 million of triple A paper last month -
Amherst Pierpont takes total return approach as it builds CLO analytics platform
2 years ago
Amherst Pierpont is making CLO analysis the focal point of a push into the asset class, with the brokerage creating a platform that looks at the alpha and beta generated by a CLO manager, as well as their pricing on CLO liabilities. -
Global CLO trading lab: bank sells $834 million triple As in quarterly reallocation as hedge fund trades CLO equity
2 years ago
Thursday’s secondary CLO market was the busiest of 2021, with over $1 billion of US CLOs on offer. This featured an enormous b-wic worth $834.3 million, where sources have told Creditflux of the bank behind the aucton. While a large credit hedge fund is said to have sold out of control CLO equity -
Three control CLO equity blocks trade, including rare CIFC deal with ultra-low funding costs
2 years ago
Three US CLO anchor equity positions traded Tuesday courtesy of one b-wic at 9.30am New York time -
Zais CLO reset prices wide of market, but strong portfolio boosts junior tranches
2 years ago
Zais Group has followed up its new issue CLO last month by resetting a 2020 CLO, sources say. Just like Zais CLO 17, the reset Zais 16 was arranged by Jefferies, and again priced substantially wide of market averages. However, the junior notes priced in line with, and at times tighter than, Zais 17 – perhaps reflecting the strong positioning of Zais 16’s portfolio. -
CLO Census latest: banks in tight race, 51% optimistic on Sofr and large managers viewed as outperformers
2 years ago
More than 100 CLO market participants have already cast their vote in the most tightly-contested Creditflux CLO Census ever with a single vote separating the top three banks at US and European CLO execution. Meanwhile, most voters are unworried by the Sofr migration and BlackRock, CSAM, CIFC and PGIM are among the CLO managers viewed as having outperformed following the covid crash. Click here to vote: CreditfluxCLOCensus2021 -
US insurers’ CLO investments pose “insignificant risk”, NAIC reports
2 years ago
US insurer’s investments in CLOs remains an “insignificant risk”. That’s according to a report released last week by the National Association of Insurance Companies entitled Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) – Stress Testing U.S. Insurers’ Year-End 2020 Exposure -
CLO issuers sit on Sofr as they brace for short-term hit
2 years ago
Times are about as good as they get in the US CLO market, with new issuance breaking records as daily volumes in September regularly topped $2 billion, but in three months new CLOs will have to adopt Sofr as a benchmark and thoughts are turning to how the CLO industry will manage the accompanying basis risk -
Oxbridge fund tops the class to break CLO run
2 years ago
It has taken a fund that invests in a range of credit funds to stop the dominance of CLO strategies in our credit hedge fund rankings, as Sandalwood’s Oxbridge Partners returned 2.93% in August -
CIFC's Vaccaro highlights importance of company culture [video]
2 years ago
CIFC Asset Management’s Steve Vaccaro gave an insight into his company’s approach to diversity and inclusion at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium earlier this month. He said that these values have been a focus for CIFC for a long time, culminating in the firm producing a CLO linked to a charitable initiative in May -
Over 1,000 Euro CLO tranches under observation with Fitch's new rating methodology
2 years ago
Fitch says it has placed 1,246 tranches rated B- to AA+ from 212 European CLO tranches under criteria observation, following an update to its CLO ratings methodology -
Fitch places 102 US CLO tranches under 'observation' following methodology changes
2 years ago
Fitch Ratings says it has placed 102 tranches issued by 43 US CLOs and 13 tranches by seven Trups CDOs under criteria observation, following the update to its CLO and corporate CDO rating criteria earlier this month -
Variety of US CLO-eligible loans makes ramping up a joy [CLO Symposium video]
2 years ago
A buoyant US CLO market is basking in a golden summer with record issuanc. Speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium earlier this month pointed out a vibrant loan market means CLO issuers are spoiled for choice -
CLO head departs as Morgan Stanley IM integrates with Eaton Vance
2 years ago
Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s CLO management business has a new figurehead, five months after the firm's merger with Eaton Vance. -
The Last Tranche with Tetragon's Michalczuk and Pang: Every missed quarterly payment can reduce CLO equity IRRs by up to 100bp
2 years ago
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Tetragon Credit Partners' Dagmara Michalczuk and Michael Pang tell Creditflux that CLOs that missed an equity payment during the covid-19 crisis in 2020 impacted returns by between 20 and 100 basis points -
Credit investors seek alpha as delta variant creates volatility
2 years ago
The leveraged loan and private debt markets have been on a tear for the first half of the year, but analysts are forecasting a more volatile six months ahead -
CLOs are ‘most bubbly of bubbles’, warns Arena CEO
2 years ago
Arena Investors chief executive officer Dan Zwirn is sounding the alarm that economic policy following the covid-19 outbreak has fuelled a bubble within leveraged finance asset classes -
The Last Tranche with Pretium's Goss: airlines are barometer for reopening trade
In this episode of The Last Tranche, Pretium's Roberta Goss and Creditflux's Hugh Minch discuss how the effects of the vaccine rollout and economic reopening are showing in the loan market. -
CLOs bask in 'golden period' as industry approaches $1 trillion market cap
2 years ago
The economic rebound following the reopening US economy has created a 'golden period' for the CLO market, market participants say -
Control position in strong 2018 Axa CLO on sale today
3 years ago
$29.2 million of Allegro VII, a 2018 CLO managed by Axa Investment Managers, is on sale today in an all US CLO equity b-wic at 10am EST (3pm UK time). The bond is the fifth US CLO majority equity position to be listed on a b-wic this year -
CLOs are here to help with infrastructure expansion
3 years ago
Issuers of CLOs backed by infrastructure debt are looking forward to a boom as investors turn to infrastructure projects as a way out of the pandemic slump -
It’s all relative: the Cornetto trilogy of CLO triple Bs
3 years ago
CLO arrangers have let their imaginations run wild when assembling triple-B rated notes – not because these have been tricky to shift, but because there is appetite for triple B CLOs that don't taste vanilla. The result is fat, split and overlapping triple Bs -
Record-breaking Apollo and Blackstone European CLOs make first distributions
3 years ago
Two 2020 CLOs managed by Blackstone Credit and Redding Ridge (Apollo) that set equity cover records in the secondary CLO market earlier this year have made their first payments
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