Hedge funds lever up CLO equity as yields slip

David Bell

May 04, 2017 08:30 PM

worried traders — Stock traders checks out a graph showing activity of US interest rates over one year in a business bank, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. Enthusiasm for riskier assets such as stocks and the euro faded Monday as investors worried that Europe's new pact aimed at fixing the continent's debt crisis would be insufficient. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) | Michel Euler/AP/Press Association Images

Investor thirst for leverage has been intensifying in the US CLO market over the last six months. But while demand is hottest for levered bets on rated debt tranches, GlobalCapital understands that two banks have offered hedge funds leverage on equity tranches, one of the riskiest things an investor can do in structured finance. David Bell reports.

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