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Beneath the triple C: Life could be better, but it’s just a letter, under the CCC
1 year ago
Many market participants were eagerly looking forward to a break in December after a gruelling year, but the rating agencies were in no mood to oblige. -
Trinitas prints US market's third static CLO in row
1 year ago
Trinitas Capital Management priced a new static CLO on Thursday, the third consecutive new issue backed by broadly syndicated loans in the US to not have reinvestment capability -
Mid market CLO league tables: Natixis extends lead with two new issues but SocGen stays close
1 year ago
Of the three mid market CLO new issues that priced in August, market leader Natixis arranged two of them to put some breathing room between it and its nearest rivals -
CLO sellers bide their time amid widening Ukraine crisis
2 years ago
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent shockwaves across the world, and CLOs, despite limited exposure to either country, have felt its impact. Those signs are most visible in the secondary market -
Picard and Cleveland-Cliffs underscore high yield single name sensitivity
3 years ago
Picard entered a relief rally on Friday after postponing a triple-tranche bond deal backing a refinancing and shareholder dividend -
KKR matches PGIM CLO triple A print despite extra year of reinvestment
3 years ago
PGIM and KKR have turned to the primary market to refinance legacy CLO transactions, each placing their triple A notes at Libor plus 95 basis points -
Redding Ridge goes big with $318 million upsize of 2017 CLO via reset
3 years ago
Redding Ridge Asset Management has reset its 2017 vintage CLO named RR 2, upsizing the deal by $317.7 million in the process -
Par-Four reaches beyond strategic partners with new CLO via JP Morgan
3 years ago
Par-Four Investment Management has teamed up with JP Morgan to print its latest CLO named Tralee VII -
It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
3 years ago
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter -
Four managers print $1.5 billion CLO refis
3 years ago
Four CLO managers - CVC Credit Partners, CarVal Investors, Ellington Management Group and Neuberger Berman - each priced a CLO refinancing transaction on Friday -
Curve steepeners gain ground with inflation in focus
3 years ago
Credit performance this week has done little for market-directional trading strategies, but one area gaining traction beneath headline numbers is the steepening of curves -
It's all relative: CLOs are lagging no more, as Carlyle deal drags market tighter
3 years ago
“CLOs are lagging” has been a much repeated refrain over the last nine months. But Carlyle Group has this week produced a US CLO that has dragged spreads to their tightest point in three years so that, rather than comparing CLOs to pre-covid levels, they should be assessed against early 2018 -
It's all relative: senior CLO tranches tighten 18% in Europe as CDS indices sit out rally
The corporate credit rally in January is notable because some assets tightened to levels not seen in over a decade (loans), others rallied albeit with a lag (CLOs) and the most liquid stream of credit (CDS indices) defied moves in other asset classes to widen
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Credit touches November levels as nerves fray on France and Fed
3 years ago
Fears of a third national lockdown in France and the risk of disappointment from Wednesday's US Federal Reserve meeting have pushed credit wider along with a sell off in stocks -
Fallen angels and financials feel heat as CDS indices roll
3 years ago
CDS indices are rolling into new contracts today, with outgoing series of iTraxx Europe and Crossover widening sharply from the market’s open on technical as well as fundamental factors -
CLO refi volumes reach $320 million this week as Fortress prices second deal
3 years ago
Fortress Credit Investors has priced a second CLO refinancing in the space of as many days, bringing the weekly refi volumes up to $318.72 million - the largest week for CLO refis by volume since February -
Beneath the triple C: downgrades hold steady as Travelport loses its luggage
3 years ago
For the second month in a row downgrades to triple C steadied, with just under $9 billion of CLO loans falling to this rating across 34 corporate borrowers -
JC Penney bankruptcy weighs on CLO and CDX HY baskets
3 years ago
CLO managers hold nearly $250 million of the debt of JC Penney, which filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on Friday -
Jump-to-default risk collapses after Senate backs biggest ever US relief package
4 years ago
The US Senate's agreement of a record $2 trillion stimulus package is shaking jump-to-default risk from high yield corporate credit today, with some iTraxx Crossover constituents shedding over 1,000bp from the front end of their CDS curves -
Refi wave gets bigger as Apollo and Neuberger reprice CLOs
4 years ago
The US CLO refi wave continues unabated with Apollo Global Management and Neuberger Berman pricing the 27th and 28th refis to hit the market in 2020, according to market sources, pushing volumes to $12.5 billion in the process -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: that's another fine mezz you've gotten me into
4 years ago
European CLO investors are tripping over themselves to buy mezzanine paper in the secondary CLO market -
US loan trading: CLO managers flee Acosta but gorge on Buckeye
4 years ago
Loan holdings in October gave CLO managers a taste of the good, the bad and the ugly: they feasted on Buckeye, fled Acosta, and could not get rid of Deluxe -
Norinchukin's CLO portfolio decreases for first time in years
4 years ago
Japanese CLO heavyweight Norinchukin posted its financial statements yesterday, where it reported a 1.42% drop from its statements at the end of the second quarter -
Credit traders' kickstand: ECB rocket boosts Europe's outperformance of US
4 years ago
Investment grade credit index iTraxx Europe has reopened a 5bp differential with US counterpart CDX IG, boosted by the European Central Bank’s stimulus plan -
BlueMountain and JP Morgan ready their fifth CLO deal together in 2018
5 years ago
BlueMountain Capital Management and JP Morgan are preparing to issue their fifth CLO transaction in partnership this year
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