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Tight loan market makes it tricky to ramp CLO portfolios
Triple-As land 8bp back of recent tights as manager keeps the equity
Demand is expected to come from Europe, LATAM and Asia
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When hot new debt products are on the march, someone will always push the boundaries beyond what is tolerable. In the case of recurring revenue loans, that would be a mistake. -
Three recent CLO issues have underlined the size of the US bank buyer base in triple-A rated tranches, structuring loan note tranches of more than €150m — a format favoured in particular by Bank of America and State Street for their investments, but which could further constrain liquidity at the top of the capital stack.
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New issue CLO supply declined slightly in March, though reset and refinancing activity continues to boom, with managers taking advantage of tight spreads.
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Ares Management has increased the size of one of its largest CLOs still further, resetting a $1.1bn transaction originally priced in 2017 and taking the opportunity to crank the deal up to a par value of $1.9bn.
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The Covid crisis has made the CLO market stronger and more attractive to investors, but it has also taught the CLO community to defend itself from distressed debt funds, agreed panellists at the IMN and FIIN conference in the session focused on the CLO market recovery.
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Plenty of CLO managers are still failing their weighted average rating factor (WARF) tests on both sides of the Atlantic, limiting their capacity to buy new lower-rated deals, even as banks bring some of their most challenging offerings to market as the quarter closes.
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Extra large deals continue to flood into the market, with Elmwood Asset Management resetting its $930m 2019 deal Elmwood CLO II.
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Crescent Capital has partially refinanced the first CLO to include an applicable margin reset (AMR) auction option in its documents, making use of the online process. More online repricings are expected to follow, as the market environment makes the refi process attractive and it can cut costs and administrative challenges for CLO managers.
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Japanese regional banks are turning their attention to the CLO market, even as the country’s best-known anchor buyer, Norinchukin, remains on the sidelines. These institutions are struggling with ultralow interest rates and are seeking opportunities abroad, attracted by the asset’s strong performance during the pandemic.
