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"With tools and data available, why do fake sellers need to abuse the b-wic process for price discovery?"
1 year ago
Penalties for CLO b-wic sellers who routinely do not trade would improve the secondary CLO market -
"Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘mini budget’ will be remembered like a forklift truck disaster video"
1 year ago
Welshcake sees the funny side as bunga bunga returns -
"The CLO that started the wave of prints and sprints paid near 20bp more than the market average"
2 years ago
It is possible to hit a home run with a print and sprint CLO, but execution is difficult -
"If anything is to be salvaged from the rest of 2022, the economy needs a hero — and quickly"
2 years ago
Something has gotta give as a recession looms in the US. Might it be energy? -
They said it: "We are proud to be moving our industry in a direction that will bring greater liquidity..."
2 years ago
Brian Carosielli, co-head of global credit trading at Bank of America, on a new CLO trading platform -
Points up front: BofA takes both sides
2 years ago
As dealers joined forces for the Octaura electronic trading platform, KopenTech announced a rival... -
"The shutdown of economies in the pandemic showed it’s better to suffer up front"
2 years ago
Rather than prolong the agony, central banks would be better off bunching their planned rate hikes into one -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
2 years ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
"Derivative longs versus cash corporate shorts looks attractive, especially if we see a market sell-off"
2 years ago
Technicals are keeping cash credit spreads tight, but as central banks reduce purchases there will be relative value opportunities -
"Faltering oil supply is lamentable at a time of strategic and moral shortfall"
2 years ago
We need to accept the pain and cut dependence on Russian oil today -
"Having tighter CLO debt costs will not be enough for brand names to outperform more agile competitors"
2 years ago
The drop in loan and CLO prices today is unlike any previous downturn — but again it will pay to be agile -
"No-one talks about the part oil price surges played in the 2008/9 global financial crisis"
2 years ago
Investors eyeing inflation shocks and supply chain disruption should instead be paying attention to the brewing energy crisis -
The Creditflux CLO Symposium was back as an in-person event for the first time in two years and participants were delighted to socialise and bask in an amazing year for the credit industry2 years ago
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"In some ways, CLOs resemble a quirky, cottage industry more than a trillion-dollar market"
3 years ago
CLO volumes outstanding have passed $1 trillion, but index omission and private placements are holding us back -
Past returns: Having a whale of a time in tranches
3 years ago
In Creditflux 10 years ago we reported on JP Morgan’s “little known prop book” making waves in index tranches -
Past returns: Barclays gambles and wins on Zohar
3 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported how Barclays had made gains from its investment in the debt of Zohar CLO I, a deal which was filed into bankruptcy by manager Patriarch Partners a few months earlier -
The cost — a few basis points — is modest compared to the potency of bond buckets
3 years ago
If CLOs had bond buckets when Delta Air Lines issued debt, a manager could have bought the bond then rotated into the loan -
Questions will need answering about where a manager's fiduciary responsibility lies
3 years ago
A university lecturer gives Welshcake a shock with a CLO presentation that points to shady trading games -
Around 20% of the US CLO market has traded this year — not bad for an asset class that is seen as illiquid
4 years ago
CLOs can trade cheaply and directly, which helps keep volumes steady even in a crisis -
Investors take comfort from an active secondary market, but liquidity can be a mixed blessing
4 years ago
One of the most interesting characteristics of credit behaviour during the coronavirus era has been the momentum of junk bonds, with sharp changes in issuer and investor confidence around the asset class driven by technical factors: near-zero interest rates, the Fed’s support of fallen angels and skewed-to-worse ratings for leveraged loans -
The opportunities to build par and spread within a CLO haven’t been this plentiful since 2009
4 years ago
Last year’s CLOs could become the benchmark for manager performance -
Past returns: Bond king’s exit ends CLO refis
4 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported on a market absorbing the consequences of ‘bond king’ Bill Gross leaving Pimco, the firm he co-founded. -
The synthetic bespoke market could definitely do with the company of the rating agencies
5 years ago
It’s about time CSOs opened the door to the rating agencies — it would be good for investors and the agencies -
Just because there have always been loan fees doesn’t mean they are the right way of doing things
5 years ago
Scrapping loan transfer costs of up to €3,500 per transaction is a bridge Europe should cross for the sake of liquidity -
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
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