CLOs

  • Leveraged finance team recruited

    Allen & Overy has hired a team of five New York-based leveraged finance partners. The team is led by Scott Zemser and includes Alan Rockwell, Rajani Gupta, Judah Frogel and Todd Koretzky.

    Zemser, Rockwell and Frogel join from White & Case, while Gupta and Koretzky arrive from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. The team will assist both domestically and internationally in .......

    Job Swaps 1 August 2016

  • CLO rating upgrades continue

    US CLO rating movements held steady in 2Q16 despite default pressures, according to S&P. Upgrades dominated the rating action count, with a total of 141 across 29 transactions.

    The agency says that liability pay-downs continued for 1.0 deals and some of the earlier 2.0s. 67 ratings were raised across 25 reinvesting CLOs as these deals saw below-average deterioration in credit .......

    News Round-up 1 August 2016

  • US CLO rally continues

    The US CLO secondary market is continuing a strong week with buyers still pouring money into the space.

    "The focus continued to be in mezzanine and equity yesterday and it looks like it will be the same today," says one trader. "I think a lot of it is hedge fund money trying to tap into the liquidity as the rally .......

    SCIWire 28 July 2016

  • Leveraged finance heads appointed

    Goldman Sachs has appointed Dominic Ashcroft and Luke Gilliam as co-heads of leveraged finance capital markets in EMEA. Both were previously mds in the bank's leveraged capital markets team and are based in London.

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    Job Swaps 28 July 2016

  • CLO trading flexibility 'reducing'

    US CLO 2.0s are losing trading flexibility because of leveraged loan quality deterioration and diminished spreads, says Moody's. Managers are struggling to maintain compliance with collateral quality tests while sourcing eligible collateral investments.

    Of the 613 US CLO 2.0s Moody's rates that were still reinvesting as of 1 June, 20 were failing either their WARF or WAS tests. Another 35 .......

    News 28 July 2016

  • Collateral management changes made

    A trio of CLOs have amended their collateral management agreements following on from NewStar Capital's acquisition of Feingold O'Keeffe Capital last year (SCI 17 September 2015). The affected CLOs are Avery Street CLO, Emerson Place CLO and Lime Street CLO.

    In each case: the cause event relating to the departure of NewStar's key personnel has been revised to add a .......

    News Round-up 28 July 2016

  • Euro CLOs switch

    Activity in the European CLO secondary market has switched from sporadic to fluid this week.

    "The market has become a lot more fluid over the past week or so," says one trader. "With that has come continued tightening across the capital structure in both 2.0s and 1.0s."

    The trader continues: "We've seen good two-way flows across the board. There's not .......

    SCIWire 28 July 2016

  • US CLOs to be tested

    The US CLO secondary market is continuing to rally, but will be tested by a busy BWIC schedule today.

    "The market's still running up significantly, but there is also a sense of caution at the same time," says one trader. "This wariness is directed towards the potential for a catalyst to suddenly disrupt tightening. Hence, there is also an element .......

    SCIWire 26 July 2016

  • Euro secondary slow

    The summer slowdown is manifesting itself across the bulk of the European securitisation secondary market.

    "It's been very quiet in the past few days with flows down significantly and BWIC volumes subdued," says one trader. "That's all thanks to the lack of volatility and the start of the summer lull."

    However, the trader adds: "We have seen some enquiries in UK .......

    SCIWire 26 July 2016

  • Placed issuance up

    €74.5bn of securitised product was issued in Europe in 2Q16, according to AFME's latest data snapshot. This represents an increase of 30.9% from 1Q16 (€56.9bn) and an increase of 49.3% from 2Q15 (€49.9bn).

    Of this volume, €29.1bn was publicly placed (representing 39.1%), compared to €14.3bn placed in 1Q16 (representing 25.1% of that quarter's total) and €28.4bn placed in 2Q15 (56.9%). .......

    News Round-up 22 July 2016

  • US CLOs rolling on

    The US CLO secondary market is maintaining its momentum, particularly in the middle of the stack.

    "It's been a very fast, one-way express since Brexit," says one trader. "The rally has been particularly strong in mezzanine."

    Spreads among short-dated, top tier mezz names have benefitted the most from the positive sentiment, the trader adds. "Double-Bs have spiked, and we are .......

    SCIWire 21 July 2016

  • Tortoise assists management buyout

    Tortoise Credit Strategies has assisted key Bradford & Marzec employees in completing a management buyout and has been confirmed as the successor manager of B&M CLO 2014-1. The investment decision process and core investment team at Bradford & Marzec will remain the same.

    Bradford & Marzec employees and management now own around 37% of the firm, with Tortoise investments holding .......

    Job Swaps 21 July 2016

  • Euro secondary firm

    Spreads across the European securitisation secondary market are remaining firm.

    Wider market positivity is feeding in to European ABS/MBS and generating improving market sentiment. While activity remains sporadic with volumes varying significantly from session to session spreads are flat to slightly tighter across the board this week so far.

    In CLOs, limited supply is continuing to support spreads across the .......

    SCIWire 21 July 2016

  • CLO relative value highlighted

    Respondents to JPMorgan's latest quarterly client survey view CLO relative value as more compelling than other asset classes this quarter, compared to the 2Q16 survey. Spreads have tightened, but yield compression in broader markets likely explains this result, according to CLO strategists at the bank.

    Survey respondents were also asked to assess appropriate pricing for top-tier, mid-tier and lower-tier managers .......

    News Round-up 19 July 2016

  • Euro CLOs sporadic

    Activity in the European CLO secondary market is sporadic in terms of volume and types of participant.

    "Activity is fairly strong, but it feels dealer led," says one trader. "2.0s are changing hands at quite high levels and seems like they will tighten further - so dealers are trying to get ahead of the market and position themselves now."

    However, .......

    SCIWire 19 July 2016

  • US CLOs rejuvenated

    The US CLO secondary market is continuing to exhibit strong activity after a positive start to this week.

    "The last few days have been the busiest that I've experienced since the UK's EU referendum vote," says one trader. "There have been strong bids across the entire capital structure and we are finally seeing activity return to pre-Brexit levels."

    The market's .......

    SCIWire 14 July 2016

  • Step-up tranches refinanced

    Four US CLOs - ACAS CLO 2013-2, Carlyle Global Market Strategies CLO 2014-3 and Neuberger Berman CLO XII and XVI - have been refinanced over the last two weeks. None of the refinancings were plain vanilla, with three having been driven by the desire to refinance step-up tranches.

    The most plain vanilla of the refinancings was for Neuberger Berman CLO .......

    News 14 July 2016

  • Euro secondary stays light

    Flows in the European securitisation secondary market continue to be light though sentiment remains positive.

    "It's been pretty quiet in general with little end-user activity and BWICs few and far between," says one trader. "However, everyone for choice is still a better buyer and looking for assets."

    The trader continues: "As with wider credit the tone across ABS/MBS is strong. .......

    SCIWire 14 July 2016

  • ABL vet joins middle market firm

    Monroe Capital has hired asset-based lending veteran Marc Adelson as originations md. He will join Ben Marzouk and Lee Stern in the firm's New York office.

    Adelson has more than 30 years of experience providing financing to middle market companies. He was previously cco at Medallion Financial and president of its asset-based lending business. Before that, he was ceo and .......

    Job Swaps 13 July 2016

  • US CLOs confident

    The US CLO secondary market is exhibiting a more confident tone almost three weeks on from the destabilising effect of the Brexit vote.

    "High yield has been climbing every day lately and is now approaching 105 after being at 104 yesterday," says one trader. "That's reflective of the risk-on sentiment we're seeing right now."

    The trader adds that a number .......

    SCIWire 12 July 2016

  • Euro secondary strengthens

    Supported by the wider market rally the European securitisation secondary market is strengthening and spreads are edging in.

    This week has again started with light flows, but many sectors are now back to around pre-Brexit levels as sentiment continues to improve in line with seeming greater political/central bank certainty. Once more, CLOs are leading the way in terms of both .......

    SCIWire 12 July 2016
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