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Assessing Tail Risk: Price Buckets Below 80/70/60

Tracking price buckets at 80/70/60 or below for CLO underlying collateral can be useful in assessing tail risk in the asset pool. Among these price buckets, those at 60 or below can be particularly valuable in identifying assets that are truly distressed. However, it’s still important to consider the impact of trading activity on these buckets, as CLO managers may have traded out of distressed assets to crystallize portfolio losses. Therefore, it’s important to evaluate a manager’s performance as a whole. The following tables show the price buckets at 80/70/60 or below for US and EU CLOs by vintage, based on asset prices as of 2 June 2023.

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A Closer Look at Seasoned EU CLO Deals: Low Annualised Prepayment Rates in the First Two Years Post-Reinvestment Period

The table below presents a list of seasoned EU CLO deals that exhibit single-digit annualised prepayment rates during the first and second years of the initial two-year period following their reinvestment period. The last two columns of the table display the annualised prepayment rates if no purchases were made after the RI end date. In other words, on average, these deals experienced a reduction of 15 percentage points and 11 percentage points in their annual prepayment rates during the first and second years following their reinvestment period, respectively, thanks to the purchases made.

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