Market Commentaries
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15 August 2023
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
Just shy of $130m of trading today across the capital structure, with spreads tighter at mezz. AA trade 192dm-225dm with our AA Index tighter at 205dm, with coupon structure driving some bonds inside the index and benchmarks trade 201dm-208dm. BBB trade 287dm-501dm (BBB Index tighter 397dm) with two benchmark trades 369dm-387dm but scaled inside the index given post reinvestment / short wal profiles. BB trade in a very wide dispersion 438dm-1017dm with benchmarks 722dm-779dm (BB Index 773dm) with manager profiles driving some bonds inside the index whilst high coupon structures drive those bonds that trade wide of the index today as high as 1017dm (coupon +836bps).
EUR AAA CLO
A couple of AAAs today. BNPAM 2018-1X AR traded quite cheap at 207 dm given it is around 1yr out of its Reinvestment Period end date and is only 1.9yr WAL. SCULE 6X AR traded at 175 dm.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
CGMSE 2022-3X D, a BB, traded at 880 dm / 96.76. It traded on 21 June at 94.55.
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14 August 2023
USD CLO AAA
$43.5m across the stack, US LSTA 100 Index +5bp dod, AAA Index now 157dm.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
1 x benchmark single-A HLM 13A-18 C CVR 98.14 at 274dm / 4y WAL - 115.4 MVOC, EoRP Oct-23 and benchmark manager HPS versus our single-A Index 291dm. BBB trade 309dm-496dm with our BBB Index now 401dm, 1 x benchmark trade OAKCL 2021-1A D CVR 96.36 at 402dm / 7.3y WAL - strong MVOC 110.4, benchmark manager OakTree and clean metrics with a coupon of +325bps.
EUR AAA CLO
Only a small handful of trades today. AAAs traded around 172 dm.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
The only AA trade, BOPHO 8X B, traded at 302 dm.
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11 August 2023
USD CLO AAA
$51m of liquidity today, CLO seniors unchanged whilst higher mezz tighter, US LSTA 100 Index +7dod. AAA Index unchanged 158dm.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
AA trade 192dm-220dm (AA Index 211dm) with a characteristic tight Blackrock bond propping up the tight end MAGNE 2019-22A BR CVR 99.21 at 192dm / 3.7y WAL (EoRP 2024) – MVOC strong 127.05 and very clean metrics, wide of the index are 2 very short bonds which are through reinvestment or soon to be. 1 x single-A trade CGMS 2019-4A BR CVR 96.88 at 281dm / 7y WAL inside the single-A Index 296dm given the strong profile (Carlyle managed, MVOC 116, Jnr OC cushion 5% and ADR 0.39). BBB trade 385dm-463dm with our BBB Index tightening slightly to 404dm, inside the index is an Invesco bond VERDE 2019-1A DR EoRP 2024) CVR 97.7 at 385dm / 5.2y WAL driven by strong manager profile and a short dated PGIM bond which is post-reinvestment trades 387dm / 4.8y WAL (CVR 95.61), wide of the index is an Ares bond ARES 2014-32RA C CVR 93.55 at 463dm / 4.5y WAL – weak MVOC 105.7 and cuspy Jnr OC cushion 0.35 and elevated ADR 1.1. At BB, one trade TSYMP 2016-1A ER2 CVR 87.89 at 973dm / 5.6y WAL (EoRP Nov-23) – weak MVOC 101.4, low Jnr OC cushion 2.6.
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10 August 2023
USD CLO AAA
$58m of liquidity today with some tightening in mezz, US LSTA 100 Index +12bp dod. AAA index now stable around 158dm.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
Single-As trade 259dm-373dm (Single-A Index 298dm) with bonds trading either side of the index given post-reinvestment / low MVOC profiles. BBB trade 319dm-409dm with our BBB Index tightening to 406dm, bonds inside index are post reinvestment / short wal and higher MVOC (>110) profiles. BB trade 680dm-810dm with our BB Index tightening to 801dm as the market shifts tighter and MVOCs shift higher.
EUR AAA CLO
AAAs have possibly traded a little softer today, by around 3 – 4 bps, at an average of 168 dm.
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9 August 2023
USD CLO AAA
$75m of liquidity today, spreads stable overall with US LSTA 100 Index +4bp dod. AAA Index unchanged 156dm.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
BBB trade 336dm-488dm (BBB Index slightly tighter 418dm) with one notable benchmark trade BCC 2019-4A DR CVR 97.15 at 422dm / 7.3y WAL – MVOC 109.1 / coupon +363bps and benchmark manager Bain. BB trade in a very wide dispersion 497dm-1048dm (BB Index 823dm) with a number of profiles, with MVOC key differentiator either side of the index along with post-reinvestment bond profiles.
EUR AAA CLO
AAAs are still trading around 163 dm.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
In BBs CORDA 23X E, a clean 8yr traded at 765 dm and HOLPK 1X DRR, a 6yr with a low MVOC, traded at 854 dm.
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8 August 2023
USD CLO AAA
$102m of liquidity across the stack, spreads stable and US LSTA 100 Index +3bp dod. AAA trade 155dm-168dm with our AAA Index 155dm.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
AA trade 214dm-231dm (AA Index 223dm) whilst single-As trade 304dm-458dm (Single-A Index 298dm) with low-MVOC profile bonds driving the wide end of this range off index. BB trade 722dm-1309dm with no benchmarks (BB Index 823dm) with post reinvestment / high profile manager (CIFC/Blackstone) shorter wal bonds driving levels inside the index, whilst lower MVOC profils (<102) driving bonds well wide of the index level.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
A handful of BBBs have traded. The average spread in secondary is 461 dm, which is unchanged, although Bridgepoint V priced a little tighter in primary at +500.
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7 August 2023
USD CLO AAA
$52m of trading today, with senior spreads stable and lower mezz spreads slightly tighter, US LSTA 100 Index +10bp on Friday close. Our AAA Index remains rooted at 153dm.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
4 x high coupon BBB trades 495dm-537dm range (BBB Index 423dm) with coupons +490-550bps given the majority of these trades are EoRP 2028 so more recent vintage. BB trade 771dm-859dm (BB Index 823dm) with APID 2022-40A E at the tight end (CVC) - CVR 100.28 at 771dm / 8.8y WAL, coupon is at the higher end +769bps and MVOC is strong 106.7 (vs benchmarks 104.5) so this trades inside the index given the very strong MVOC. VERDE 2019-1A ER trades back to the index (CVR 92.06 at 859dm / 5y WAL) with MVOC low 102.6 despite the benchmark manager Invesco (EoRP 2024) and elevated ADR of 1%.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
A handful of BBs have traded. They have relatively high margins and have traded close to par. Their average spread is 792 dm.
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3 August 2023
EUR AAA CLO
AAAs are unchanged at around 163 dm in secondary, for short average lives between 1 and 3 years.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
In AAs we see 2 premium price trades. Both got issued in the last year and have high margins which leads to their high traded spreads of around 376 dm.
Single A’s are steady also at around 321 dm today.
After seeing BBBs tighten over the past few days we see a modest reversal today with 10 – 20 bps of widening.
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2 August 2023
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
Single A’s are steady at around 319 dm.
BBBs are at 447 dm.
BB rated HNLY 5X E traded at 739 dm.
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1 August 2023
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
AAs have traded around 240 dm. BOPHO 6X B1 traded a bit wider, at 266 dm, because of its low MVOC.
3 x BBBs have traded considerably tighter than the dealers expected or our models predicted. These trades indicate BBBs to have tightened by 20 – 30 bps since the last session.
BBs similarly have tightened and traded at around 765 dm today.
Single B’s have traded around 1155 dm, largely as expected.
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31 July 2023
EUR AAA CLO
DRYD 2016-48X A1R traded at 183 dm.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
BBBs have tightened by around 20 bps, trading around 450 dm.
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28 July 2023
EUR AAA CLO
AAA spreads are steady with a handful of trades at around 168 dm.
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27 July 2023
USD CLO AAA
CLO Spreads unchanged, US LSTA 100 Index +1bp dod and close to $100m of liquidity. AAA trade 127dm-290dm with virtually all non-benchmark trades (AAA Index 153dm) with the vast majority post reinvestment bonds.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
2 x rare AA MM CLOs trade 348dm-352dm. BBB trade 396dm-510dm with non-benchmark profiles (low MVOC, high coupon) and BBB Index unchanged 423dm. BB bonds are non benchmarks with high coupon profiles and trading range 856dm-857dm (coupons +850-875bps).
EUR AAA CLO
Just the one AAA trade. It’s one year past its RPE date and traded at 162 dm for 1.6 yr WAL. In primary Harvest XXX priced at +175.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
CGMSE 2014-1X B1R, a AA, traded a little wider than expected at 261 dm.
There are a lot of BBB trades. The average spread is 470 dm which is around 15 – 20 bps tighter. Harvest XXX priced at +520 which is also tighter than recent new issues.
The BB bond, BNPAM 2018-1X E, traded wider than expected at 918 dm. The deal is past reinvestment and the BB is only 5.5yrs long. This compares with Harvest XXX which printed at 820 dm. We are not convinced, based on this one trade, that BBs have widened and think this situation could be specific to the BNP bond.
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26 July 2023
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
$20m of liquidity today, US LSTA 100 Index -1bp dod and CLO spreads flat. Single-A trades are non-benchmarks in reinvestment with low MVOC profiles 115 or less (vs benchmark 117) with a trading range 322dm-327dm (Single-A Index 298dm).
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
Cairn XVII AAs priced at +275. Secondary AAs traded around 227 dm.
Cairn single A’s priced at +360, secondary is around 339 dm.
For BBBs new issue is at +530 and secondary around 493 dm.
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25 July 2023
USD CLO AAA
$132m of liquidity today with spread tightening at AAA evident with $110m of trading, US LSTA 100 Index +11bp since Friday cob. AAA trade 132dm-172dm for BSL 1st pay AAAs (AAA Index 153dm) with benchmarks 135dm-146dm which is a tighter shift, 1 x MM CLO GOCAP 2014-21X AR covers 99.5 at 187dm / 0.5y WAL – short wal / post reinvestment bond.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
In terms of mezz, very spotty trading with 1 or 2 trades per rating band with few benchmarks and levels generally flat on the day.
EUR AAA CLO
AAAs remain steady, trading today around 174 dm.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
AAs have traded around 234 dm which continues their tightening trend.
Single A’s also continue to tighten and traded around 303 dm for regular single A’s. HARVT 14X CR which is an orig single A, rated AAA now and highly delevered traded at 164 dm.
BBBs have traded around 546 dm.
BBs traded unchanged at around 807 dm.
The only single B trade, SPAUL 5X FR, traded surprisingly cheap. Dealer talk and our valuation is in the L80s but it traded at 79.49 which is 1249 dm.
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21 July 2023
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
$8m of trading across 3 x mezz trades, all non-benchmark with CLO spreads unchanged, US LSTA 100 Index +2bp dod. AA trade 231dm-305dm (AA Index 223dm) with both trades post reinvestment and weaker credit/MV profiles, with OZLM 2014-6A A2AS CVR 98.78 at 231dm / 2.8y WAL (EoRP April-23) with a resonable MVOC 126.9 but manager profile (Sculptor) is on the weaker side, ADR 1.1 and Jnr OC Cushion is -0.06. 1 x BBB trade ALLEG 2016-1X DR CVR 97.69 at 434dm / 6.3y WAL (BBB Index 421dm) - bond is post reinvestment, MVOC 107.9 (-1pt lower to benchmarks), Jnr OC cushion 0.09 and ADR 1.2.
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20 July 2023
USD CLO AAA
$130m of liquidity today across the stack AAA-BB with CLO spreads broadly flat and US LSTA similar context +1bp dod. AAA trade 136dm-217dm with benchmarks 157dm-168dm (AAA Index 162dm), manager profiles and MVOC influencing trades inside the index and high coupon bonds scaling bonds wide to the index.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
Single-A trade 253dm-427dm with benchmarks 288dm-294dm (Single-A Index 298dm) with one post reinvestment bond tight to the index whilst manager profile and MVOC scales those bonds wide to the index, a benchmark trade is BCC 2020-1A C CVR 99.52 at 288dm / 5.6y WAL (EoRP 2025) – MVOC 116.1, +270bps coupon and Jnr OC cushion 4.8 benchmark manager Bain Cap. BBB trade 381dm-526dm (BBB Index 421dm) with manager profiles and MVOCs driving bonds either side the index. BB trade 707dm-948dm (BB Index 843dm = -1bp dod).
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19 July 2023
USD CLO AAA
$140m of liquidity today with BBB spreads tighter, US LSTA drops for the third day in a row -3bp dod. AAA trade 172dm-192dm with all trades non benchmark / high coupon (AAA Index 162dm).
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
AA, Single-A and BB spotty trades are all non benchmarks whilst BBB trade 347dm-594dm with benchmarks 417dm-419dm (BBB Index 421dm) as MVOC drives the tiering above and below the index. Benchmark trade is OCP 2019-17A DR CVR 95.5 at 417dm / 5.5y WAL – 108.3 MVOC, +310bps coupon and benchmark manager Onex / EoRP 2024.
EUR AAA CLO
Notwithstanding the relatively wider pricing of Nassau Euro III the secondary market looks to be on a slight tightening trend. We see AAAs a few bps firmer.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
AAs have traded around 250 dm which is also a little firmer.
BBs traded unchanged at around 828 dm.
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18 July 2023
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
$90m of liquidity today across mezz with spreads unchanged. US LSTA 100 Index -5bp dod. Single-As trade 264dm-430dm (Single-A Index 297dm) with MVOC driving the delat to the index especially towards the wide end with MVOCs touching 110 (vs benchmarks 116.6). BBB trade 365dm-572dm (BBB Index 428dm) with all profiles post-reinvestment or low MVOC and off index. BBs trade 714dm-944dm with all trades non-benchmark for many of the same reasons as above, see PriceABS trade listing for details.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
BBBs traded pretty wide today, at around 603 dm. Three of the four trades are at a premium price and therefore had their prices capped but HAYEM 10X D traded wider than expected at 627 dm / 95.58.
BBs have traded a little firmer, by around 10 bps on average, at around 807 dm.
Single B’s have traded steady at around 1190 dm.
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17 July 2023
USD CLO AAA
Limited activity today with only $24m of liquidity, CLO spreads unchanged and US LSTA 100 Index -2bp dod. AAA trade 141dm-186dm (AAA Index 162dm) with post reinvestment and high coupon bond profiles exchanging hands.
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
1 x AA ELMW8 2021-1A B2 CVR 97.62 at 204dm / 5.6y WAL which is inside the AA Index 223dm - strong MVOC 127.9 and low coupon +145bps pulling this tighter to the index.
EUR AAA CLO
Just one AAA trade, TIKEH 5X A, at 182 dm.
EUR MEZZ/EQUITY CLO
NWDSE 2019-19X D, a BBB, traded wide for BBBs at 618 dm. This is due to its low MVOC of 108.27%.
BBs have traded around 813 dm, which is a slight tightening trend.
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14 July 2023
USD CLO Mezz/Equity
$22m of liquidity today, some tightening at BB else unchanged, US LSTA 100 Index +2bp dod. AA trade 224dm-240dm with our AA Index 223dm with a lower MVOC profile AA pushing it wide to the index. BBB trade 298dm-371dm (BBB Index 428dm) given short daters and high MVOC profiles. BB trade off index 905dm-1018dm (BB Index 844dm) with an outlier GALL 2018-1A E CVR 99.08 at 579dm / 4.3y WAL - post reinvestment / short WAL along with a low coupon +547bps, whilst weaker MVOC profiles drove the remainder of the trades wide of the index.