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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
Spread on triple-A rated notes 4bp wide of recent tights
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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. -
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.
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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.
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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.
