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Points up front: Whatever the size, CLO performance dwarfs others
1 year ago
A graphic depicting the investment fund universe was doing the rounds on social media late in 2022... -
"CLOs could withstand another 13.4% of downgrades to triple C if the price drops to 50"
1 year ago
CLOs are well positioned, even if there are mass downgrades to triple C -
Points up front: CLO managers didn’t take advantage of volatility, say CLO managers
1 year ago
Creditflux’s CLO Census shows CLO managers can be hard on themselves -
Points up front: Exhibit A: every single CLO slide deck ever
1 year ago
In a recent note, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners said they needed “more data to showcase that CLO pools have outperformed the loan market” -
"The equity IRRs of enhanced CLOs are nearly all in the bottom decile of the market"
High triple C CLOs sound like a good idea on paper. But in practice, they have not fared well1 year ago -
CSAM does the CLO awards double
1 year ago
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it -
Past returns: Silvermine CLOs splash the cash
1 year ago
In Creditflux 10 years ago, we reported that three Silvermine Capital CLOs, which had built up $646.5 million of cash, had started buying loans again -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
1 year ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
"Wholesale moves into risk areas after internal changes should sound an alarm"
1 year ago
The composition of CLO managers is changing, so management styles may drift -
"We again have to flag up information in CLO marketing pitches that can mislead investors"
2 years ago
Cash-on-cash returns, default records and leverage statistics don’t always give CLO investors the full picture -
The Creditflux CLO Symposium was back as an in-person event for the first time in two years and participants were delighted to socialise and bask in an amazing year for the credit industry2 years ago
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"Three CLOs issued in 2021 have included triple C baskets of 20%"
3 years ago
Big triple C buckets helped mid market CLO issuers in 2020 and the trend is for even bigger allowances this year -
"CLO managers who struck the right balance in 2020 are more easily able to reset their deals"
3 years ago
CLO managers were re-evaluated during the pandemic, and outperformers can expect to see benefits this year -
CLO naysayers have made arb and cov-lite into dirty words — that should now change
3 years ago
Recent performance has shown that cov-lite loans and challenging arb don’t spell doom for CLOs -
The tide has turned… the solution for investors is to move into floating rate loans
3 years ago
2020 was the year of fixed-rate bonds, but treasury curves are steepening and demand for loans is heating up -
Past returns: Barclays gambles and wins on Zohar
3 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported how Barclays had made gains from its investment in the debt of Zohar CLO I, a deal which was filed into bankruptcy by manager Patriarch Partners a few months earlier -
Don’t obsess over the state of your OC cushions
3 years ago
During Creditflux’s live CLO webinar last month, panellists agreed that fighting to keep an over-collateralisation test in compliance could do more harm than good in the long term -
Some managers calculated their CLOs were passing OC tests, only to find them failing the next day
3 years ago
Corporate credit downgrade storms have been weathered before, but this one has come out of season -
They said it: There will be a re-tiering of managers after this
3 years ago
"There will be a re-tiering of managers after this" -
Points up front: Senior tranches pay down despite junior OC passes
3 years ago
192 US CLOs have breached at least one over-collateralisation test, according to CLO-i, but at least two deals have not followed the conventional path -
Where are the gloating I-told-you-so columnists who claimed CLOs would bring global destruction?
3 years ago
We have seen a measured response to the coronavirus crisis: fund managers aren’t collapsing and investors are not shunning CLOs -
Past returns: Death by triple Cs? A step too far
3 years ago
15 months ago in Creditflux we reported that corporate credit downgrades, rather than defaults, were the biggest problem facing CLO portfolio managers -
Points up front: Liquidating CLO can’t escape Standard & Poor’s
3 years ago
With over 1,000 CLO tranches on watch across the big three rating agencies, it’s good to see rigorous standards are being maintained and little things like CLO liquidation are not excusing deals from detailed scrutiny -
CLO investors should be able to see live secondary trading levels
4 years ago
Olga Chernova of Sancus Capital takes our credit quiz -
Miscast as the villains of the 2008 crisis, CDS may prove to be the heroes of 2020
4 years ago
Credit default swaps provide investors with valuable signals on the depth of the coronavirus crisis
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