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Technicals keep triple-A spreads attractive
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Busy pipeline but tight spreads prompt caution among some investors
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Non-bank lenders are taking advantage of cash-squeezed properties scrambling for finance with CarVal Investors and Gryphon Real Estate Capital Partners forming a $1bn joint venture to originate multifamily senior bridge loans. -
CLO issuers are flooding the market with repricings of old deals to lower their cost of financing. Sound Point Capital is the latest manager to have partially refinanced a 2019 CLO, slashing the spread on the senior notes by 29bp.
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Investors in triple-A rated European CLOs are using their pricing power to discern between trades, causing some deals to be priced more tightly than the recent trend of spreads widening towards 100bp, while other paper has had to offer spreads even cheaper than this.
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Apollo subsidiary Redding Ridge has hired Tom Frangione from Alcentra as it grows its assets under management and the number of CLOs it runs.
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A flood of capital into certain corporate borrowers and a greater number of investors hunting for yield is fuelling a rise in middle-market CLO issuance, with the sector set to expand this year and take up a bigger portion of overall US CLO volume. Investors and managers more used to broadly syndicated loan deals are turning to the sector but a lack of transparency and the private nature of the underlying borrowers remain hurdles to its growth.
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Danish credit investor Capital Four has made three additions to its CLO and high yield business in the US.
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Japanese bank Mizuho has hired CLO specialist Nate Weber from Bank of Montreal Capital Markets as a managing director in its asset backed trading department.
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Pacific Asset Management has returned to the CLO market, pricing its first new issue of 2021 after 18 months away.
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So far, despite the constant market chatter, consolidation among CLO managers has yet to occur. Instead, new firms are popping up as buyer demand rises in the hunt for yield. That has included Sancus Capital Management, which arranged its first deal recently having spent eight years as an investor in CLO equity and mezzanine paper.
