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"With tools and data available, why do fake sellers need to abuse the b-wic process for price discovery?"
1 year ago
Penalties for CLO b-wic sellers who routinely do not trade would improve the secondary CLO market -
Points up front: Shhh, don’t tell! Secret CLO pricing is in progress
1 year ago
The CLO industry has come a long way in the last decade — so much so that managers can now boast of their track records and CLOs are no longer (wrongly) touted as the acronym that caused the 2008 financial crisis. But in recent weeks some CLO market participants seem to have gone back to a time when pricing a CLO was taboo -
"Extreme volatility can push BSL yields close to mid market levels, although that trade never lasts"
1 year ago
The two segments of the loan market are on different paths as mid-market volumes rise -
"The CLO that started the wave of prints and sprints paid near 20bp more than the market average"
1 year ago
It is possible to hit a home run with a print and sprint CLO, but execution is difficult -
They said it: "We are proud to be moving our industry in a direction that will bring greater liquidity..."
1 year ago
Brian Carosielli, co-head of global credit trading at Bank of America, on a new CLO trading platform -
"The shutdown of economies in the pandemic showed it’s better to suffer up front"
1 year ago
Rather than prolong the agony, central banks would be better off bunching their planned rate hikes into one -
Points up front: Making a meal of the arb
1 year ago
Credit market participants are always looking at the best arbitrage opportunity and right now that seems to be at McDonald’s -
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 -
"Derivative longs versus cash corporate shorts looks attractive, especially if we see a market sell-off"
1 year ago
Technicals are keeping cash credit spreads tight, but as central banks reduce purchases there will be relative value opportunities -
"Having tighter CLO debt costs will not be enough for brand names to outperform more agile competitors"
1 year ago
The drop in loan and CLO prices today is unlike any previous downturn — but again it will pay to be agile -
"This is the CLO market’s time to shine and prove it deserves to be a mainstream asset class"
2 years ago
The CLO market shouldn’t fear inflation — in fact, 2022 could be a very good year indeed -
"‘B-level’ assets could struggle to find optimal valuations"
2 years ago
Acquisitions are increasing and companies focused on health and technology could benefit -
They said it: "The tone may have been too positive"
2 years ago
CLO market participants have been guilty of being overly bullish -
"Growth in credit products lets investors express sector-specific views as dispersion ticks higher"
2 years ago
Investors can use ETFs, volatility dispersion swaps or even bond baskets to trade dispersion -
They said it: "Remove call option from CLO assets and liabilities"
2 years ago
A CLO investor, commenting in Creditflux’s CLO Census, comes up with a drastic way of making CLO cashflows a whole lot easier to model -
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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"Never have the choices for issuers been more varied, nor the market dynamics more complex"
2 years ago
Direct lending deal terms are becoming more attractive in Europe -
"There are concerns about volatile sectors in high yield, but IG may be vulnerable to macro changes"
2 years ago
High yield has heavier exposure to energy and travel credits, but IG has more rate duration -
"It’s not unusual for investors to toggle between the US and Europe depending on pricing and terms"
2 years ago
The accents may be different, but US and European direct lending markets have a lot in common -
"CLO managers who struck the right balance in 2020 are more easily able to reset their deals"
2 years ago
CLO managers were re-evaluated during the pandemic, and outperformers can expect to see benefits this year -
"Watch the IG credit curve — we may see steepening of IG 5s10s and flattening of 10s30s"
2 years ago
Stimulus measures are supporting short tenors, and pension demand for 30-year paper is strong, so 10-year IG credit may have few buyers -
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 -
A brighter year ahead
3 years ago
Panellists on Creditflux’s CLO webinar described how CLO spreads are close to historic tights, ESG is entering the docs and managers have more flexibility with work-outs than ever before -
The cost — a few basis points — is modest compared to the potency of bond buckets
3 years ago
If CLOs had bond buckets when Delta Air Lines issued debt, a manager could have bought the bond then rotated into the loan -
CLO investors should be able to see live secondary trading levels
3 years ago
Olga Chernova of Sancus Capital takes our credit quiz
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