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Lower pricing across CLO capital structure does little to improve equity arbitrage
Manager tightens triple-A pricing by 27bp and avoids refinancing some junior mezzanine notes
Spread on triple-A rated notes 4bp wide of recent tights
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PGIM Fixed Income is in the market this week with a sterling denominated CLO offering, Dryden 63 GBP CLO 2018, arranged by NatWest Markets. -
Citi's Peter Keller, former co-head of EMEA structured credit, has been promoted to EMEA head of spread product sales.
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Barclays has hired a new head of CLO origination and syndication from Citi, as well as hiring two bankers from Natixis to set up a new middle market CLO platform.
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A handful of new US CLOs are expected to be priced this week, including deals from HPS, Voya and Octagon, as traders say that investors are looking to take advantage of tightening spreads in junior CLO debt.
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New terms are emerging in US leveraged finance documentation, as investors try to push back against the loosening of investor protections, but critics claim such provisions are too narrow and too ineffectual to stem the tide of a seller’s market.
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Speakers at a loan industry conference in New York on Wednesday highlighted the continued erosion in the quality of investor protections in leveraged loans, a trend that many expect will make recovery rates worse when the credit cycle turns.
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Credit and real estate investment firm Angelo, Gordon has hired a European leveraged finance portfolio manager from PGIM, as the firm joins a growing list of US debt managers setting up European CLO businesses.
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The riskiest end of the US leveraged loan market has outperformed the wider loan market in the year to date, although investors are starting to push back on pricing in some instances.
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Some global CLO managers are proving to be less actively engaged in managing their European portfolios compared with their US businesses, according to research from JP Morgan, bucking a belief that “a US manager tends to be more active in Europe”.
