Interestingly, a significant number of these deals have fixed-rate tranches that are currently 'out of the money,' meaning that these tranches are expensive to refinance. However, the cost savings from other tranches during a reset outweigh the costs of refinancing the fixed-rate tranche. This implies that holders of the fixed-rate tranches would be pleased with more resets, as this would allow them to be prepaid at par.
In terms of EUR notional exposure, fixed-rate exposure has increased by EUR 1.6 billion, due to the issuance of more CLOs since the beginning of 2023. If 2023 vintage deals were excluded, fixed-rate exposure would have decreased by EUR 0.3 billion. The following table presents the breakdown of the total EUR 19.4 billion exposure by manager.
Please refer to the table below for the latest data on underlying fixed-rate exposures in EU CLOs, categorised by vintage year and presented in percentiles (75th, 50th, and 25th). These percentiles illustrate the distribution of fixed-rate exposures across the CLO portfolios, while the 'Deal Count' denotes the number of deals for each vintage. In fact, the latest fixed-rate exposures across EU CLOs have largely remained the same compared to those at the end of 2022. The latest median exposure was 8.6%, compared to 8.5% at the end of 2022. In terms of EUR notional exposure, fixed-rate exposure has increased by EUR 1.6 billion, due to the issuance of more CLOs since the beginning of 2023.
EU CLO Managers: Investment Performance and Fixed-Rate Strategy A sample of 218 EU deals (vintage 2015–2019) is included in this...
