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Refis, resets and new issues all on offer as Five Arrows, Apollo, Neuberger Berman, Ares and Oaktree price deals
European CLO ETFs' total holdings near €2bn
International Finance Corp’s drive to introduce development finance to the CLO market is advancing. Its second deal of $509m had more investors, more tranches and better pricing, supporting its rapid growth
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The CLO market is putting the pandemic behind it, with equity distributions at almost pre-Covid time and structures back to the standard of early 2020. -
BlueBay Asset Management has hired a portfolio manager to its structured credit and CLO management team, bringing in Tom Mowl from his previous position as senior portfolio manager at Challenger Investment Partners.
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Shenkman Capital has returned to the CLO market after skipping issuance during 2020, pricing a deal named Romark CLO IV through its affiliate Romark Credit Advisors.
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The credit quality of CLOs has strongly improved since April 2020, with default rates and watchlist exposure falling rapidly, Fitch said this week.
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A flurry of deals is expected to hit the CLO market with managers, such as Sculptor, MJX, First Eagle and Carlyle, among others, set to issue new deals or reprice legacy deals.
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CLO managers once happily sold huge volumes of triple-A securities to NorinChukin, sucking up the Japanese bank’s terms in return for a reliable anchor order which locked in their senior notes ahead of public syndication. The bank has been slowly running down its portfolio since it was forced to stop buying by its regulator, but if it comes back, it might find managers keen to preserve their flexibility and place their bonds elsewhere.
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Alongside the rush of refi and reset activity, a third form of CLO refinancing is once again emerging, with Canyon Capital choosing to reissue a 2015 CLO as a new $420m deal called Canyon CLO 2021-2.
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Head of US CLO new issue syndication David Ryan has left Deutsche Bank after 17 years working at the bank.
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A growing number of pension funds are turning their attention to the riskier part of the CLO capital stack in search of extra yields, attracted by the risk-adjusted returns offered by CLO equity and mezz, compared with other fixed income asset classes.
