US CLO Manager Report: Blackrock
US CLO Manager Report: Blackrock
US CLO Manager Report: Blackrock
Throughout 2020 and 2021, Blackrock demonstrated resilience in its total performance. It consistently outperformed the loan index from January 2020 to July 2022, with the exception of April/May 2020. However, the firm’s performance began to decline from mid-2022, as its MV alpha decreased more significantly than that of its peers.
The top managers with the highest number of deals in the top quartile are Oak Hill Advisors, Golub Capital, CSAM, Benefit Street Partners, Sixth Street, Elmwood, CVC, Blackstone, and Blackrock.
In the 2.0 CLO landscape, it is quite uncommon to see very high cash-on-cash equity distributions. However, 42 regular reinvesting US BSL CLO deals have distributed impressive cash payments to their equity investors, with annualized payments of around 25% or more so far this year.
Please see the table below for the list of US BSL CLO managers and the average percentile across at least 10 of their deals, based on asset prices as of May 28, 2024. It is also interesting to note that managers with a primary CLO blended DM print of below 190 bps are represented across the performance percentiles.
At least 69 deals have been redeemed or paid off since October 2023.
