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Borrowers take advantage of robust CLO demand to tighten leveraged loan pricing
New realm for ex-Natixis banker, as HSBC Innovation Bank hires
Manager reset the deal for the second time as the end of its reinvestment period approached
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CIFC Asset Management has priced the tightest post-Covid CLO with five-year reinvestment period, a deal which also includes the new more flexible language to allow managers to preserve value in distressed situations. -
Moody’s has put 188 CLO tranches issued by 114 US CLOs on review for possible upgrade, following a change in how its CLO methodology treats leveraged loans on negative watch. But the shift will make it harder to analyse CLO quality, as weighted average ratings will be dispersed more widely and documentation differences will become more important.
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CLO managers are seeking more influence on the outcome of restructurings, baking additional flexibility into deal documents to avoid being blindsided by more flexible distressed debt funds better equipped to extract value from corporate restructuring negotiations. New CLOs are adding extra space for loss mitigation loans while older deals are seeking investor consent amend their docs.
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Hayfin Capital Management returned to the US CLO market with a new issue after its first American transaction in June 2019. CLO supply is expected to be strong into year-end, with another 13 deals at least to be priced before Christmas.
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The Fire and Police Pension Association of Colorado (FPPA) had never made a proper allocation to the CLO market before this year. In November, the board of directors of the pension fund approved a $70m commitment to a CLO debt strategy, despite the turmoil which had engulfed the asset class through the Covid-19 crisis earlier this year. Ben Bronson, director of liquid strategies at the fund, talked to GlobalCapital, about the new allocation.
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BlackRock priced the tightest three year reinvestment period CLO since the pandemic hit, selling senior notes at 120bp over three month Libor and tightening the double-B spread from recent prints.
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Euro securitization secondary markets leapt into action as traders see a window of spread tightening in December, crossing their fingers and hoping macro worries have abated for the remainder of the year.
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Changes to the Volcker rule allowing US CLOs to hold bonds as well as loans ought to survive the shift to a new administration, but market participants will be counting the days and hoping the changes, enacted at the beginning of October, aren’t caught up in a Congressional review.
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If 2020 was a year when sectors and broad virus news drove the market, 2021 will be the year of the credit picker, according to panellists at IMN's ABS East Virtual 2020 event, with individual loan selection more crucial than ever.
