There were not many people in the debt markets with smiles on their faces at the end of August but a few CLO managers were managing to raise a grin. Having long lamented the spread compression in the leveraged loan market that was destroying their arbitrage, Christmas came early for some asset managers in July when spreads on senior loans blew out from around 225 basis points to 300bp. When you have locked in term funding at historically tight levels but not yet invested and asset margins suddenly blow out by 30% it must be hard to stop grinning.
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