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CLO 2021 outlook: back to the 'old' normal with volumes, spreads and structures to revert to pre-covid levels
3 years ago
Predictions went out the window this year because, well, who in December 2019 could have foreseen a pandemic devastating lives and wrecking financial markets? But the emergence of vaccines to combat the threat of the coronavirus has spurred a rally in credit over the last month. And CLO researchers expect a resurgence in 2021 with US new issue CLO volumes predicted to hit the $80-110 billion range, according to reports analysed by Creditflux. -
Europe leads corporate credit rally, but US outperforms in CLOs
3 years ago
iTraxx Crossover has been the CDS market's outperformer this week, tightening over 30 basis points, or 11.4%, to trade at 235bp today. But in the CLO market, US deals have come out on top thanks to a BlackRock CLO that priced its double Bs at some of the tightest levels this year -
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 -
CLO rally keeps primary market flowing for most prolific issuers
3 years ago
The rally in CLO liabilities in September has given fresh impetus to the primary CLO market, which has benefitted from almost six months of favourable market dynamics -
Legacy CLO warehouses brought into scope of Fed's talf programme
4 years ago
The US Federal Reserve has published an updated term sheet and FAQ for its term asset-backed securities loan facility programme with amendments to allow a greater scope of CLOs as eligible collateral -
Fund perfomance: Slowdown for some as pandemic takes hold
A round-up of fund performance4 years ago -
Loan market slump feeds into CLO pricing
4 years ago
The loan market opened this week 2-4 percentage points lower than last week, pushing it toward 90—a threshold it has not crossed since February 2016. CLOs have reacted to this rapid drop -
Fund performance: CLO funds pick up where they left off
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
Fund performance: Presents under the tree as CLO funds perform
A round-up of fund performance4 years ago -
Volatility wave brings index-linked CLO funds into play
4 years ago
Defensive positioning from loan managers has led to bifurcation in that market, but CLO fund managers are taking an attack-minded approach with ‘index-linked funds’. -
Fund performance: Long-short funds rule in October as CLO funds struggle
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
Marathon issues CLO with limitation on B3 loans
4 years ago
Marathon Asset Management’s new $405 million US CLO has a 25% cap on loans rated B3 and below, says a source close to the deal -
DFG seeks secondary loans for new series of Pulsar CLOs
4 years ago
DFG Investment Advisers is launching a new line of CLOs with collateral sourced entirely in the secondary market -
The Last Tranche with THL’s Herzig: loan bifurcation and the direct lending safety net
4 years ago
For Creditflux's Last Tranche podcast, THL Credit’s Michael Herzig joins Hugh Minch and Seth Brumby to talk, among other things, about bifurcation in the US loan market, why some borrowers might suffer refinancing woes and how large direct lending funds can step in to provide financing to even large-cap companies -
Fund performance
4 years ago
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Fund performance
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
Fund performance
4 years ago
A round-up of fund performance -
US CLO managers see positives as docs include negative notation language to ease move to new reference rate
4 years ago
Europe might be making progress, but US CLO managers are less than preoccupied with the looming transition away from US dollar-Libor based pricing. -
US loan trading: CLO managers on cloud nine after Ultimate Software allocations
4 years ago
CLO managers took down about 27% of Ultimate Software's loans in April, when the cloud operator issued its $2.3 billion first lien term loan due 2026, according to CLO-i -
A round-up of fund performance4 years ago
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Loan trading round-up: CLO managers fall out of love with First Data
5 years ago
An analysis of loan trading among CLO managers in February shows that First Data is falling down the pecking order with managers selling $182 million of the company's loans -
Podcast: Secondary loans rebound, CLOs widen and covenants deteriorate
5 years ago
Creditflux, Debtwire and Xtract discuss the current state of the market -
Neiman Marcus loan slumps amid debt restructuring talks
5 years ago
The luxury fashion retailer’s $2.95 billion cov-lite term loan B, due October 2020, traded down 1.65%, according to IHS Markit
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