CLOs

This year saw elation over the rollback of risk retention for CLOs give way to concerns about leveraged lending, the 1st post-crisis downgrade of a subprime auto deal, the 1st AAA for commercial PACE, and much, much more.

They differ slightly from those released earlier by the Fed-convened ARRC, including language making it easier to ditch a SOFR-derived benchmark in favor of a new benchmark that has yet to be developed.

AFAH Funding is not your typical CRE CLO: It is backed by entirely by long-dated mezzanine interests in multifamily properties that are eligible for low-income housing tax credits.

A Wells Fargo report this week shows that market spreads for the triple-A notes backed by collateralized loan obligation assets are at 128, a level not seen since May 2017.

The $500 million AIG CLO 2018-1, AIG's first deal since selling off its asset management business in 2010, is priced at 132 basis points over three-month Libor.

The €350 million Providus CLO II is backed exclusively by loans to mid-market firms that meet the private equity firm's sustainability criteria; at closing, 90% of the collateral has been identified.

The LA-based manager is pricing the replacement AAA notes of Oaktree EIF III Series 1 inside recent market averages through a limited, brief noncall extension.

Stuart Morrissy, a leveraged finance specialist, joins the law firm from the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

The $308 million Deepath CLO 2018-1 has an unusually large allowance for riskier triple-C loans of up to 17.5% of the portfolio.

The $153.7 million Peaks CLO 3 also features a high ceiling for triple-C-rated loans and for "current-pay" loans that meet one or more criteria for default.

FORT CRE 2018-1 will include four loans recycled from the prior deal, including one that Kroll has identified as a loan of concern due to weak operating performance.

The sponsor appears to be paying for the privilege; the deal is structured with a super senior tranche of notes that benefits from considerably more subordination than the senior tranche of its prior deal.

Both managers are pricing their 3rd CLOs of 2018; the 135 basis point spread on Zais' is among the widest this year for a deal backed by broadly syndicated loans.

The pool includes loans for 23 new construction, converted or acquired assets, each in a pre-stabilization phase awaiting refinancing through a permanent agency takeout loan.

Guggenheim joins GSO/Blackstone and Bain Capital as longtime CLO managers expanding into the SME space this year.

We are one year deeper into an already extended credit cycle, so it’s even more important to focus on market complacency.

More collateralized loan obligations are failing weighted-average lift tests due to the dearth of available loans whose near-term maturities could provide some relief to portfolios.

Eagle Point's CEO criticized "hyperbole" about growing risks in leveraged loans and CLOs, noting the benefits that price volatility can present to equity buyers.

The structured credit specialist will more than double its $2.9 billion in assets by acquiring a portfolio of three collateralized loan obligations that Trimaran Advisors runs from KCAP Financial.

The $600 million FORT CRE 2018-1 is more highly leveraged than the private equity group's debut transaction in August 2016, it is also actively managed and includes a $50 million tranche of revolving notes.