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CLO market braces for another wave of loan downgrades
4 years ago
A wave of negative rating actions swept the leveraged loan and CLO market in April. “Companies will look to secure incremental capital which will lead to further rating pressure,” says Philip Raciti, portfolio manager and head of US performing credit at Bardin Hill Investment Partners -
Who's got the moves US: Carlyle leads as $3.7 billion of CLO loans recover
4 years ago
CLOs were exposed to $833.4 million worth of paper in the 10 term loans that suffered the largest price falls last week. But CLOs also had exposure to $3.67 billion of loans that recovered the most over the seven days. -
Bank looks to unwind $632 million loan TRS
4 years ago
A US bank has looked to liquidate a total return swap vehicle by putting out a loan bwic, according to market sources, with the vehicle sized at $632 million -
Loan market slump feeds into CLO pricing
4 years ago
The loan market opened this week 2-4 percentage points lower than last week, pushing it toward 90—a threshold it has not crossed since February 2016. CLOs have reacted to this rapid drop -
CLO managers don’t always prioritise profits
Research into CLO trading by professors Florin Vasvari and Maria Loumioti leads them to believe that, when CLOs are bound by strict constraints, managers tend to focus on ‘compliance trading’4 years ago -
CBOs aren’t fixated on interest rate moves
The loan sell off at the start of this year highlighted that CBOs are not a play on interest rates or bond prices — they’re taking advantage of the flexibility to rotate between loans and bonds.4 years ago -
Distressed loans get IHS Markit workover as tech service aims to cut settlement times
4 years ago
IHS Markit is unveiling an electronic solution through its ClearPar platform aimed at simplifying trade settlement for distressed leveraged loans, an area that has greatly lagged efficiency in the par loans market -
CLOs take advantage of valuations to cash out of Refinitiv
4 years ago
Refinitiv US Holdings was the most sold US issuer in July immediately following the announcement that the London Stock Exchange Group was to buy the firm. -
US loan trading: Sinclair loans dominate the airwaves as CLOs tune in
4 years ago
Sinclair Broadcasting Group and Diamond Sports – both subsidiaries of issuer Sinclair - worked their way into CLO portfolios in July, with 91 managers purchasing $1.42 billion of the loans in July -
CLO managers look to move away from ‘spiky’ triple Cs
4 years ago
CLO managers are in the process of de-risking their portfolios by rotating out of triple Cs into less risky credits following a volatile month in markets, according to multiple sources. Creditflux analysis shows that, for the past couple of years, managers have become emboldened with triple C and B3/B- loans making up 25% of the portfolios of 50 US CLO managers. -
Investors seek oasis as new issues dry up
US loan issuance has fallen dramatically this year, but many thirsty investors found liquidity in the secondary market or took advantage of plentiful high yield issuance in a record quarter for bonds -
Rival manager’s warehouse contributes to new CIFC US CLO
4 years ago
CIFC Asset Management has had a productive year after pricing four new issue US CLOs but sources say that the manager’s latest deal, CIFC Funding 2019-IV, owes a lot to another CLO manager. -
Net short language could force lenders to sell at a loss
4 years ago
Signs are growing that ‘net short’ provisions in bonds and loans are getting closer to hitting CDS investors, with two instances in recent weeks of the language expanding both in geographical and functional remit. -
Doing CLOs is hard work as recovery lags
4 years ago
There’s scrutiny on staffing, structures and, of course, ‘the challenging arb’. But Q4 volatility created opportunity, which led speakers at the Creditflux CLO Symposium to ask for more -
High yield bonds regain lost ground
The US high yield bond market experienced its biggest quarter since Q4 2017, with volumes and returns rising as borrowers plumped for secured bonds and the Fed turned dovish on rates4 years ago -
Loan trading round-up: CLO managers fall out of love with First Data
5 years ago
An analysis of loan trading among CLO managers in February shows that First Data is falling down the pecking order with managers selling $182 million of the company's loans -
Large, liquid loans aren’t always perfect
5 years ago
CLOs could be forgiven for rushing to buy Refinitiv loans — after all it was the biggest LBO since the crisis. But some large managers have abstained, while others have bought opportunistically -
Moving on from the late 2018 hangover
5 years ago
It might be too early to call a full recovery, but it’s fair to say that the US loan market is back on track with $48 billion of institutional issuance in 2019 — 88% of which is made up of new issues -
Just because there have always been loan fees doesn’t mean they are the right way of doing things
5 years ago
Scrapping loan transfer costs of up to €3,500 per transaction is a bridge Europe should cross for the sake of liquidity -
Podcast: Secondary loans rebound, CLOs widen and covenants deteriorate
5 years ago
Creditflux, Debtwire and Xtract discuss the current state of the market -
Q4 2018, which had loan price volatility without defaults, was close to nirvana for CLO investors
5 years ago
The current vintage of CLOs could be the best ever if the volatility in Q4, when retail funds dumped loans, repeats itself, says our columnist Thomas Majewski -
Neiman Marcus loan slumps amid debt restructuring talks
5 years ago
The luxury fashion retailer’s $2.95 billion cov-lite term loan B, due October 2020, traded down 1.65%, according to IHS Markit -
Libor rise gives timely boost to US loan yields
5 years ago
Competition for US loans among CLOs, ETFs and mutual funds is keeping margins in check. However, the 60bp increase in Libor in Q1 means there’s still reason to pile into the loan market -
Spotlight: Local exchange carriers - calling for rescue on the M&A hotline
6 years ago
Growth-starved US phone companies are seeing consolidation as the best way to improve performance
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