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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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Danish credit asset management boutique Capital Four is expanding in the US and has hired former MidOcean CLO portfolio manager Jim Wiant to establish and lead the US business. Wiant has been appointed CEO of US Capital Four and portfolio manager. He will be based in the New York office. -
Recent CLO resets have broken through the 80bp spread barrier for triple-A paper in recent weeks, bringing the market to its tightest point since coronavirus lockdowns began a year ago.
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MUFG has introduced a new CLO asset class, bundling $500m of project finance and infrastructure loans together for Starwood Property Trust, in a deal that clearly demonstrated investor appetite for the product. Other issuers could follow, raising capital for the forthcoming US infrastructure building plan potentially worth $2tr, writes Paola Aurisicchio.
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Chicago-based middle market CLO manager Monroe Capital has sold a minority equity stake to Bonaccord Capital Partners, a subsidiary of the UK asset manager Aberdeen Asset Management. The minority interest is classified as 'passive', in which the buyer will not exercise control by votes and will not have impact on the day-to-day management, operations and decision-making processes of Monroe. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
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Antares Capital has priced a jumbo reset, giving a new lease of life to its $2.1bn middle-market CLO originally issued in 2017.
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Spread tightening on double-Bs tranches has created a domino effect, increasing the investor demand for the riskier tranches rated single-B.
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The synthetic risk transfer market helped some of Europe’s biggest banks dodge loan losses last year, with Barclays saving more than £300m and Deutsche at least €150m. But the backdrop last year led to investors taking a tougher line on writing new credit protection, steering clear of pools with limited disclosure and hoping to dodge the most damaged sectors.
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The complexity of CLO documentation, and the need for easy access to deal info is encouraging tech providers to step into the breach and offer solutions to simplify the time-consuming processes of CLO investing. As managers adapt their deals to handle the fallout of the pandemic, good tools to handle documentary complexity have become all the more important.
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Investors in search of extra yield are pushing CLO managers to once again add single-B tranches to deal structures, now that the volatile market conditions of 2020 have subsided.
