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Pricing on triple-A rated notes tightens by 15bp as manager avoids refinancing some mezzanine tranches
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
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Sankaty Advisors and Citigroup have priced Rye Harbour CLO, a €350m European CLO 2.0 with a few structural tweaks from the standard deal. Like most new-style collateralised loan obligations, the deal will be 90% senior secured, with strict limits on unhedged non-euro assets.
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At IMN's European CLOs and Leveraged Loans Conference in London on March 9, GlobalCapital will be presenting 2014's European CLO of the Year Award to the winning manager and arranger, as voted by the market. Read on for more details.
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Investors may demand wider pricing than is currently being talked about for York Capital Management’s debut collateralised loan obligation, as incoming risk retention rules lead to increased price tiering between established managers and newer entrants, according to market participants.
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Credit Suisse has been handed arranger duties on a new collateralised loan obligation from debut New York issuer York Capital Management, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Fitch Ratings has grown its structured credit ratings team in the US significantly over the past 18 months or so and is continuing to do so, with several more positions to fill as the market grows, especially in collateralised loan obligations.
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Loosening language around what types of assets collateralised loan obligations can hold could lead to more middle market loans making their way into broadly syndicated loan CLOs, market participants told GlobalCapital this week. -
Invesco has agreed to Volckerise one of its 2013 collateralised loan obligations, as well as modifying it to include changes to Standard & Poor’s recovery ratings that could benefit equity investors. The S&P changes could provide a crucial window for Volckerisations as refinancing activity winds down, say market participants.
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Leverage levels of the single-B rated issuers that dominate European CLO portfolios are back to 2007 levels, according to Moody’s. But despite Europe’s continued deterioration of loan covenant quality and weak economic growth, the ratings agency still expects the asset class to perform strongly in 2015.
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CLO managers could escape burdensome risk retention requirements following a law suit to block the rule on grounds it was an arbitrary and capricious overstep by financial regulators. That argument has proved successful in the past, but CLO managers are not yet changing course as a result of the news.
