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CLOs, Structured Finance
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Demand for Collateralized Fund Obligations Surges Amid UK Solvency II Reforms
Reporting: Victoria Thiele, Sid Punjabi Private capital firms are hoping to unlock demand from U.K. insurers for collateralized fund obligations, or CFOs, by structuring them to be eligible for the so-called “matching adjustment,” according to market sources. U.K. and European insurance...
Published on Sep 9, 2025
Rush of New CLO ETF Launches Causes Concern About Market Overcrowding
Reporting: Diana Bravo, Victoria Thiele The CLO exchange traded fund, or ETF, market has seen a substantial increase in the number of participating managers. With 30 separate funds now accounting for about $33 billion of assets globally, some CLO market participants are expressing concern about...
Published on Sep 5, 2025
Rising Demand Drives Innovation in CLO Mezzanine Investment Strategies
Reporting: Chloe Wang, Sid Punjabi Demand for CLO mezzanine tranches has reached new heights in 2025. Liability spreads have approached record tights in the primary, while in the secondary market, certain profiles of CLO mezz have traded at higher prices than triple-A CLO debt for the first time....
Published on Aug 5, 2025
Deluge of New Managers Drives Hiring Frenzy in European CLO Market
Reporting: Victoria Thiele The fight over talent in the European CLO market is set to intensify as new market entrants on a hiring spree drive compensation upwards, according to headhunters who specialize in hiring in the industry. Firms like Elmwood Asset Management, Silver Point Capital and...
Published on Jul 25, 2025
Octus Identifies Key CLO Trends for the First Six Months of 2025, Showing Market Volatility Sparked by Tariffs
NEW YORK, NY – July 23, 2025 – Octus, the essential credit intelligence and data provider for the world’s leading buy-side firms, investment banks, law firms, and advisory firms, today announced its comprehensive recap of the collateralized loan obligation (CLO) market for the first half of...
Published on Jul 23, 2025
Innovation, Empowerment, Excellence: The tools and data driving success in the CLO market
Published on Jul 22, 2025
Portfolio Analytics Wrap: Beyond Fundamentals – What’s Really Driving CLO Pricing
Reporting: Chloe Wang, Sicheng Wan CLO instrument prices, measured as the weighted average price of the portfolio assets, have long reflected the credit fundamentals of underlying borrowers, with metrics such as interest coverage and leverage serving as key anchors for valuation. Octus’ Portfolio...
Published on Jul 16, 2025
CLO ETFs Display Green Shoots After Tariff Dislocation
Reporting: Diana Bravo Inflows into CLO exchange traded funds, or ETFs, have picked back up after a volatile period in early April, when “in-kind” redemptions tested the structures amid the turmoil following President Donald Trump’s announcement of tariffs. Although flows have largely...
Published on Jul 3, 2025