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Fair Oaks Capital is planning to launch its debut European CLO this quarter, with deal documentation structured to comply with ‘environmental, social and governance’ (ESG) principles. -
A CLO reset caught in the crossfire while fourth quarter rates volatility ushered havoc into fixed income markets has at last been refinanced via arranger Natixis, which priced the deal earlier in the week.
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CLO anchor investor Norinchukin Bank is said to be looking at a full calendar of deals in the next two months, leaving some managers not on the Japanese bank’s list planning to revive structures not seen since before the last crisis in a bid to drum up interest and improve the arbitrage function of their CLOs.
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In an analysis of CLO managers’ holdings of distressed loans since the financial crisis, a team of analysts at JP Morgan found that Voya and KKR were the top managers for selling loans that later became distressed at the highest spread versus their eventual recovery price.
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S&P Global Ratings has announced that it intends to recalibrate its CLO ratings tools to better account for years of performance data that show the firm’s models predicted more defaults than have occurred across CLO and CDO asset classes.
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A study released by Fitch Ratings on Thursday showed that first-lien leverage ratios rose by a half-multiple between 2017 and 2018, a factor which the ratings agency said would reduce recovery rates in the event of a distress scenario.
