‘We like managers that are honest about the risks’
Investor's Corner with Elena Rinaldi, portfolio manager at TwentyFour Asset Management

TwentyFour’s ABS co-head eyes CLOs and prime RMBS, predicts record issuance
Aza Teeuwen says European CLO and ABS issuance could hit EUR 175bn this year, while he sees value in triple A CLO tranches

European CLO market focuses on resets as pipeline fills out
CLO deal activity is set to be robust in Europe through the autumn months with managers mainly focusing on resetting older vintage deals 

ELFA names Rinaldi as co-Chair of CLO investor committee
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) has named Elena Rinaldi as the new co-chair of its CLO Investor Committee

TwentyFour AM heaps praise on ICG for CLO's enhanced investor protections
TwentyFour Asset Management has hailed Intermediate Capital Group for enhancing documentation protections for mezzanine debt investors in its latest European CLO that priced last Monday via JP Morgan

Private equity firms are becoming CLO converts: TwentyFour
Private equity firms have increasingly bought CLO and other securitised debt tranches in recent weeks instead of their usual preference for physical assets - a trade TwentyFour believes "makes perfect sense"

European junior CLO debt can withstand downturn without taking principal loss: TwentyFour
European CLO single Bs are able to weather a “moderately pessimistic forecast” in which loan defaults spike to 6.5% for two years, without coming close to taking a principal loss, according to a blog written by TwentyFour Asset Management’s Elena Rinaldi.

Junior debt investors gain seat at Euro CLO negotiation table
CLO documentation and structural negotiations are no longer limited to triple A noteholders and majority equity investors in Europe

Defaults should keep low despite looming recession, says TwentyFour
Corporate default rates should remain low even as the chance of a recession looms larger, according to a new report from TwentyFour Asset Management

What summer slowdown? Carlyle, Hayfin and Investcorp add €1.2 billion Euro CLO issuance
Europe’s CLO market has shown no sign of a summer slowdown in the first week of August as Hayfin and Investcorp rework 2020 deals and Carlyle refis 

Vontobel takes full ownership of TwentyFour after bringing forward acquisition plan
Vontobel says that it owns all of TwentyFour Asset Management after fast-tracking a plan to top up its previous 60% stake in the structured credit fund manager

Inflation fears add to allure of CLOs and keep fatigue at bay
CLO debt investors took a breather in late March, but sources indicate a busy second quarter is in store.

Faith in structures has been rewarded
CLOs have been resilient against covid-19 fallout, said speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium last month. But there’s always room to improve and 3.0 deals may add ESG and bullet tranches

European CLO volumes expected to rise and fall in coming months: Creditflux CLO Symposium
Europe's CLO primary market is gearing up for a busy few months as managers seek to term out pre-covid warehouses before they enter their amortization periods, but the longer-term outlook for issuance is more uncertain, according to panelists on the European CLO panel at Creditflux's CLO Symposium today

US and Europe diverge on credit spreads and more
US and European corporate credit performance has diverged since cities went into lockdown in March, with Europe tending to do better. But the CLO market gives a different picture, with 17 US transactions pricing to four in Europe since 1 April, and with tighter investment grade spreads

Euro CLO volume could beat €25 billion consensus in 2020, says TwentyFour
Current spread tightening in Europe’s CLO market could boost issuance beyond the widely anticipated €25 billion for 2020, according to a note from TwentyFour Asset Management

Largescale triple C downgrades 'look inevitable' due to loan performance, says TwentyFour
US leveraged loans are underperforming and a wave of downgrades to triple C ‘looks inevitable’, according to TwentyFour Asset Management