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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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DFG Investment Advisers, a $7.3bn alternative credit investment management firm, has changed its name to Vibrant Capital Partners. -
MJX Asset Management has opened up the US CLO market for the new year, with an actively managed deal with five year reinvestment period, the norm for the pre-Covid period. This paves the way for a flurry of CLOs that are expected to pop up in the coming four weeks, sources said.
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Reset and refinancing activity is returning to the European CLO market, after a year of virtual absence, as spreads tightened further in the first week of 2021, especially at the bottom of the capital structure. Partners Group is in the market with a reset of Penta 5, aiming for a sub-100bp print at the top of the capital structure.
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It’s been almost a year since a Dutch tax ruling sent CLO managers scurrying to Ireland to avoid a VAT charge. But with the changes coming into action in 2021, some CLO managers are leaving their vehicles in the Netherlands and taking their chances on a ruling from the supreme court.
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Moody’s has started the process of upgrading CLO tranches, following an update to its methodology late last year. On Friday, the agency upgraded ratings on $311m of CLO notes across four deals.
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Onex Credit Partners has appointed Conor Daly to head its European CLO franchise, building out its capacity to tap into the European securitization market in 2021.
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Juan-Carlos Martorell, who jointly ran the risk transfer and structured solutions group at Mizuho, and before that, Lazard, has joined Munich Re Markets to work on origination, structuring and risk distribution, according to LinkedIn.
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When the year began, the European securitization market forecast a busy year for itself. Issuance levels in markets from synthetic risk transfer to CLOs had broken issuance records in 2019, with the year ahead expected to match if not outpace the previous year's volumes. Instead, the market found itself grappling with an outbreak which would close up issuance for months and set a new course for ABS. Linked below is a collection of GlobalCapital’s best securitization articles of 2020.
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The percentage of triple-C rated loans held in US CLOs has declined in the last quarter, a trend that CLO players believe will continue into next year.
