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Changing issuance patterns, tight mezzanine spreads and investor demand deliver bumper crop of deals
Deal follows Macquarie's acquisition of Spire, which issued previous Aurium CLOs
Pim van Schie, a portfolio manager at Neuberger, discusses rising investor appetite for CLO mezzanine tranches
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Diameter Capital Partners has priced its debut CLO after $250m seed funding from alternative asset managers Apollo Global Management and Corbin Capital, and the pension fund of renewable energy company Babcock & Wilcox. Despite being active in the bond-loan deals, this is the first traditional CLO priced by Diameter, making the firm a new entrance in the regular broadly syndicated loan CLO market. -
After one of the busiest quarters for ABS since the financial crisis, many market participants are eyeing a short break in August in anticipation of a slower market. The combination of working-from-home culture, lack of travel opportunities and physical meetings has prevented many in the market from taking a break.
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Third-party equity investors have come back to the US CLO market supporting the heavy issuance that sources believe will continue over the summer.
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Jefferies appointed Crescent Capital's former CLO head Melissa Weiler and Ellis Kirk Group's CEO Matrice Ellis Kirk to its board of directors, starting from July 1.
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Palmer Square Capital Management priced a $1bn CLO on Friday, the largest deal of the year arranged by Citi and with no reinvestment period.
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ABS lawyers are asking issuers to resist taking advantage of a legal loophole left via a regulatory quirk, where a number of CLO and CMBS deals are technically exempt from switching data over to the securitization repositories approved by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on Friday.
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Trimaran Advisors has refinanced a CLO originally issued in 2014 via an applicable margin reset (AMR) auction, joining a handful of managers to the innovative way of refinancing. More online repricings are expected to follow, as the issuers scramble to lower their funding costs.
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The spreads on triple-A rated CLO tranches in euros are levelling off once more, after a spell of widening. The senior parts of the capital stack have become more accessible to investors, leading to a stabilisation of spreads which syndicates warn may be temporary.
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Too much supply in the US CLO market has caused the spreads on triple-A tranches to widen to 110bp-120bp, according to market sources. Issuance is expected to reach record levels this year.
