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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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Telos Asset Management has priced its sixth CLO of the year, and has around $225m in a warehouse for its next, according to pricing sheets. Meanwhile, Covenant Credit Partners is busy ramping its second CLO, having priced on Wednesday.
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Monroe Capital, which recently sold the first US middle market CLO to comply with European risk retention rules, is searching for ways to make its first broadly syndicated CLO compliant not just with European risk retention rules but also the US version of the rules, which was finalised last week. -
Texas-based hedge fund sponsor Crestline Investors has joined forces with loan investor Denali Capital to create a CLO platform and has already set the ball rolling for its first deal. Meanwhile, Citizens Financial Group is also looking at bringing a CLO.
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Recent spread volatility in the US CLO market calmed down this week, with several deals pricing back around the 150bp mark over Libor. Issuance is expected to continue to increase as managers try to lock in assets under management before risk retention rules come into effect in late 2016 — but the rules could force smaller managers out of business and cause serious legal headaches for those that remain.
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A secondary option for risk retention in collateralised loan obligations, proposed by the FDIC in the final version of the Dodd-Frank rules on Tuesday, has been dismissed as “completely unworkable” by a senior executive at the Loan Syndications and Trading Association.
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Continued spread pressure in the US CLO market has forced managers completing deals in the past two weeks or so to swallow higher spreads to get their deals over the line, with many hoping they can take advantage of softness in the underlying leveraged loan market to make up for the wider print.
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American Capital, which earlier this year brought one of the first US collateralised loan obligations to comply with European risk retention rules, is aiming to replicate the success of that deal with a new CLO it announced this week.
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Nomura’s head of leveraged credit sales has left the bank’s New York office.
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The eternal tussle between equity and triple-A investors in collateralised loan obligations intensified this week, as a widening in triple-A CLO spreads drove down equity returns even further and forced some arrangers and managers to make concessions in order to lock senior debt investors into their deals.
