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OC health check: CLOs end 2020 with fragile recovery
3 years ago
Only 109 CLOs breached an overcollateralisation test in December, falling from 121 in November. This in turn was down from the 147 CLOs that breached an OC test in October, but 33 cured their breaches in November and a further 11 cured all OC test failures in December -
Five-year CLO triple As rally to 124bp with Sixth Street US deal
3 years ago
Five-year US CLO triple A spreads have reached 124 basis points after Goldman Sachs priced a $430 million long-reinvestment CLO for Sixth Street Partners on Friday. -
MJX prints first reinvesting CLO of the year
3 years ago
MJX Asset Management has become the first CLO manager to print a reinvesting new issue transaction in 2021, teaming up with Jefferies as lead arranger and Bank of America as co-arranger on the $507.3 million deal, named Venture 41 -
OC health check: 41 CLOs heal their breaches
3 years ago
147 CLOs breached an over-collateralisation test in October, down from 183 in September. 41 CLOs that breached an OC test in September passed all OC tests in October, most of which had October payment dates -
TCW completes first reset of 2020 CLO and adds double Bs
3 years ago
TCW has become the first manager to rework a 2020 vintage CLO after teaming with Jefferies to reset its April transaction named TCW CLO 2020-1 -
OC health check: CLOs wake up when September ends
3 years ago
September showed a slight but clear improvement in CLOs’ over-collateralisation test results as 182 CLOs breached an OC test during the reporting period, compared to 198 in August. -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO mezz tranches widen amid macro concerns
3 years ago
Last week was busy for the primary European CLO market but not for secondary, with €1.35 billion of new issue European CLOs priced across four transactions but just €190 million of European CLO paper listed in b-wics -
Morgan Stanley IM prices first new CLO following Assurant deal
3 years ago
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has issued its first CLO since buying the contracts to four deals previously managed by Assurant -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO triple As finally rally while European investors go ‘all in’
3 years ago
A huge supply of $731 million of US CLO triple A bonds pushed US CLO secondary volumes to just shy of $1.5 billion last week -
OC health check: CLOs pay $1.3 billion on senior tranches as payment dates come due
3 years ago
Senior debt holders received $1.3 billion of principal from CLOs that breached an overcollateralisation test in July, a month in which the majority of scheduled payment dates fell. Of those deals suffering an OC breach, 190 were due to make a payment to noteholders and 57% were within reinvestment. -
OC health check: breaches start to take toll on July payment dates
3 years ago
37 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation test failure last week, but this was a falling percentage of those publishing trustee reports and none were fresh breaches -
Beneath the triple C: downgrades hold steady as Travelport loses its luggage
3 years ago
For the second month in a row downgrades to triple C steadied, with just under $9 billion of CLO loans falling to this rating across 34 corporate borrowers -
OC health check: CLOs heal up with no new breaches among US BSL deals
3 years ago
53 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation (OC) test breach last week, but only two CLOs breached an OC test for the first time, neither of which were US broadly syndicated loan CLOs -
OC health check: CLO managers drop their breaches
3 years ago
114 CLOs reported overcollateralisation breaches last week, but only three deals reported breaches for the first time -
HPS CLO warehouse hit by downgrade as it reaches 8.34% triple C assets
3 years ago
CLO warehouses have been hit with an increasing number of triple C assets in their portfolio. And those in one CLO warehouse managed by HPS increased from 0.5% in March to 8.34% by May -
OC health check: second European 2.0 CLO reports junior OC breach
3 years ago
33 deals reported overcollateralisation (OC) breaches last week in a relatively quiet reporting period. 314 deals are now reporting OC breaches as of the latest report, according to CLO-i. -
OC health check: US CLOs hit by new round of test failures
4 years ago
135 deals breached an over-collateralisation test last week, 78 for the first time, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i. -
OC health check: interest diversion failures foreshadow breaches
4 years ago
14 CLOs reported over-collateralisation test breaches last week, five for the first time, according to the latest trustee reports available on CLO-i. -
OC health check: failures lift above 100 as five more deals breach senior test
4 years ago
Another 116 CLOs have breached their overcollaterisation tests in the last week, according to the latest trustee reports on CLO-i. Out of this, five deals have failed OC tests for all classes – bringing the overall tally of deals that have breached senior OC tests to nine. -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: spreads tighten across the board as bond-flex CLOs trade well
4 years ago
Price levels have tightened and, more importantly, stabilised across the secondary CLO market over the last two weeks, but the Easter break led to a drop off in CLO b-wic supply -
Secondary CLO debt trades well but Trace suggests CLO equity trading at 12 cents
4 years ago
A variety of CLO paper was in for the bid yesterday with US secondary CLO volumes reaching $281 million, and European volumes hitting €74 million -
Beneath the triple C: $31.6 billion of CLO credits feel downgrade pain
4 years ago
March madness took a toll on CLOs as Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s downgraded 4.25% of the portfolios in the US and 1.84% in Europe to triple C or below in just one month (some of these were already triple C rated, only to fall further). -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: $8 billion of US CLOs listed in record-breaking March
4 years ago
Last week brought an end to the busiest month in both the US and European CLO secondary markets since at least 2014. $7.7 billion of US CLO paper was on sale in March with a further €1.8 billion of European CLO bonds available, bringing the total listed in Q1 to $13.9 billion and €3.6 billion -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO triple As recover but mezz left behind
4 years ago
The CLO secondary market was a tale of two halves last week. 100% of all bonds listed in b-wics on Monday and Tuesday had no covers released (either traded or did not trade), but the end of the week was a different story for both markets -
Global CLO round-up: welcome back, give us a (refi) wave
4 years ago
Tighter corporate credit spreads means new issue volumes are down, but it makes a decent entry point for new CLO managers to price deals and also makes refinancing CLOs imperative
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