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Pricing on junior mezzanine notes is diverging as managers have to cope with difficult conditions
Manager extends non-call by a year, tapping into market for shorter-dated deals
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As CLO spreads have rallied towards pre-Covid levels, some CLO managers have come to market with their second new issues since the pandemic first hit, taking advantage of loan prices still largely under par to ramp new issues quickly. But the new landscape is missing some of the market’s most well-known managers, and there’s a stubborn tail of pre-Covid warehouses still to shift. -
The European Investment Bank has taken down a €2.2bn synthetic balance sheet CLO originated by Santander CIB, executing a significant risk transfer to free up exposure to a Spanish SME portfolio.
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A CLO managed by Seix Investment Advisors that was to be repriced through an online auction this week did not hit the desired levels to reset the spreads on the bonds.
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Leveraged loan liquidity in the European market has improved this year, with two-way flows resuming rapidly after the spring nadir of the Covid-19 crisis, and sufficient market depth to shift large portfolios. CLO managers are taking advantage, speeding up their time to market and time to ramp deals.
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Spreads on triple-A CLO bonds have tightened to a new Covid-era low, with Oak Hill Advisors pricing a $458m deal at 125bp over three month Libor.
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A gap in tranche performance has opened up between the secondary and primary market for triple-A rated CLO notes in euros, after rapid selling of double-B and triple-B rated notes forced spread compression off the back of worsening macro conditions and end-of-quarter capital requirements.
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Market stress and a jump in loan defaults as a result of the pandemic is causing a resurgence of a deal feature meant to protect CLO vehicles from shouldering an additional tax burden during the workout process of a soured loan.
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BNP Paribas has announced Harvest CLO XXV for Investcorp Credit Management, the second post-Covid CLO issue for the manager. Though its 45% ramping is lower than usual for a new CLO, this allowed the manager to build the portfolio from August, in full knowledge of second quarter figures for the underlying companies.
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The CLO market is expected to enter a frenzied period of deal activity heading into the fourth quarter, as managers look to get deals done in the narrow window before the US presidential election on November 3.
