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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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Chicago-based middle market CLO manager Monroe Capital has sold a minority equity stake to Bonaccord Capital Partners, a subsidiary of the UK asset manager Aberdeen Asset Management. The minority interest is classified as 'passive', in which the buyer will not exercise control by votes and will not have impact on the day-to-day management, operations and decision-making processes of Monroe. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. -
Antares Capital has priced a jumbo reset, giving a new lease of life to its $2.1bn middle-market CLO originally issued in 2017.
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Spread tightening on double-Bs tranches has created a domino effect, increasing the investor demand for the riskier tranches rated single-B.
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The synthetic risk transfer market helped some of Europe’s biggest banks dodge loan losses last year, with Barclays saving more than £300m and Deutsche at least €150m. But the backdrop last year led to investors taking a tougher line on writing new credit protection, steering clear of pools with limited disclosure and hoping to dodge the most damaged sectors.
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The complexity of CLO documentation, and the need for easy access to deal info is encouraging tech providers to step into the breach and offer solutions to simplify the time-consuming processes of CLO investing. As managers adapt their deals to handle the fallout of the pandemic, good tools to handle documentary complexity have become all the more important.
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Investors in search of extra yield are pushing CLO managers to once again add single-B tranches to deal structures, now that the volatile market conditions of 2020 have subsided.
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PGIM has pushed the market to a new tight by resetting a deal with senior notes at 104bp over three month Libor.
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CLO liability spreads are tightening faster than leveraged loans can reprice, boosting the arbitrage available for managers hitting this window and encouraging others to rush into the market where possible.
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Tikehau Capital has appointed Christoph Zens from Commerzbank as head of the firm’s CLO business, replacing Debra Anderson who is set to retire in the second quarter of 2021.
