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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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CLO markets have snapped back to pre-Covid levels and structures, but with two major differences — easier rating rules from Moody’s and the rush to allow managers flexibility to own workout loans. While the Moody's changes have been accepted by the market, workout loans remain more controversial, but are gaining traction as the flood of resets permits managers to update their docs. -
Sound Point has set a new standard for the European CLO market by bringing a deal to market with a five year reinvestment period, a structure common in the US but largely absent in euros, even pre-pandemic. The deal also saw a healthy spread of equity demand, GlobalCapital understands, underlining the potential for strong supply even from those managers without captive vehicles to hold their subordinated notes.
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CLO markets on both sides of the Atlantic are suffering from a surfeit of supply, according to traders, managers and investors, with the softer tone showing up in mezzanine tranches following near-record volumes of new issue and refi supply in the past months.
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Palmer Square Capital Management has joined a handful of CLO managers that are adding single-B tranches to their US deals, a layer of the capital structure more frequently issued when the market is 'hot', to satisfy investor demand from hedge funds.
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Traders say the CLO market is suffering from new issuance fatigue, while worries over inflation and rising Treasury yields have also begun feeding into the European secondary market. But any softness is unlikely to last long, given a strong longer term technical backdrop.
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The strong CLO volumes, both new issue and repricings of existing deals, has started to weigh on spreads, softening pricing across mezzanine tranches over the last 10 days, signaling that demand is started to be overwhelmed by the heavy supply.
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Danish credit asset management boutique Capital Four is expanding in the US and has hired former MidOcean CLO portfolio manager Jim Wiant to establish and lead the US business. Wiant has been appointed CEO of US Capital Four and portfolio manager. He will be based in the New York office.
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Recent CLO resets have broken through the 80bp spread barrier for triple-A paper in recent weeks, bringing the market to its tightest point since coronavirus lockdowns began a year ago.
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MUFG has introduced a new CLO asset class, bundling $500m of project finance and infrastructure loans together for Starwood Property Trust, in a deal that clearly demonstrated investor appetite for the product. Other issuers could follow, raising capital for the forthcoming US infrastructure building plan potentially worth $2tr, writes Paola Aurisicchio.
