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Major sectors in leveraged loans are trading down, making shrewd credit selection vital
Deal is one of the tightest prints this year and is the second European CLO solely arranged by Mizuho
Debut manager is launching a CLO platform building on leveraged loan market experience
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Despite a string of credit issues at troubled US retailers, the sector has provided leveraged loan investors with the strongest gains in the year so far, said JP Morgan on Tuesday, while the CMBX index targeted by mall bears as the next Big Short has barely budged. -
Claire’s Stores was the latest retailer to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, joining a handful of other private equity owned companies that became credit casualties last week. While CLO managers have generally traded out of the names, some older deals might be stuck with the loans, wrote Wells Fargo analysts on Monday.
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UK CLO manager Spire is planning to launch a new open ended fund of around €200m-€300m that will invest in European CLO equity, debt and warehouse first loss positions.
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Uber’s self-syndicated leveraged loan is not just another example of big tech’s ambitious approach to the capital markets but a tribute to the hot credit markets that make these efforts fruitful.
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More than $26bn of new issue CLOs have been priced in the year so far in the US, on top of $22.1bn of refinancing and reset deals as managers look to wring more returns from existing deals. The combined volumes in the first two months of the year are the highest in the CLO market’s 20-year history, said JP Morgan on Tuesday.
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US Steel was in the US high yield bond market on Tuesday, one week after announcing it would restart a steelmaking facility in Illinois in anticipation of a boost in demand as a result of US president Donald Trump slapping a 25% tariff on imported steel.
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Toys ‘R’ Us is discussing with investors the outlook for the company on Monday — with a restructuring proving elusive, there is talk of liquidating the company, which would be a blow to unsecured lenders.
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Tennenbaum Capital Partners last week sold $147.9m of publically rated debt backed by a potential direct lending portfolio to a handful of insurance companies, before any of the assets had been originated. In a hot CLO market, talk of more exotic financing structures and riskier collateral is growing.
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Bankers and issuers said at the SFIG Vegas conference this week to expect commercial real estate CLOs to get more complex as what was once a small corner of the CMBS market grows rapidly.
