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US CLOs: MVOC (Investment-Grade) 

September 9, 2022
posted on Sep. 09, 2022 at 10:15 amSeptember 9, 2022

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. – Albert Einstein

US CLOs: MVOC (Investment-Grade) 

The tables below show the MVOC metrics of US BSL CLO deals* by vintage based on asset prices as of 8 Sep 2022.

CLO MVOC (AAA–BBB)

Market Value Over-Collateralisation (MVOC), for instance, at the BBB tranche level, is calculated by dividing the collateral MV by the sum of CLO liabilities (AAA to BBB). Market participants focus a lot on this number – a point in time metric – as it is an important metric for pricing CLO-rated tranches. Put another way, CLO-rated tranches do trade on the back of the loan market.

At the senior levels, perhaps the greatest concern is systemic risk rather than idiosyncratic risk. That said, it is essential to note that a CLO collateral pool is very well diversified across many real businesses in various industries. A typical underlying CLO portfolio is comprised of a diverse pool of syndicated bank loans (provided to non-investment grade companies). Some of these companies have a quality business profile, but they are non-investment grade because of their aggressive financial profile.

Default correlations between industries have been very low. Even within the same industry  they would not be too high as some companies would benefit when their competitors’ businesses collapsed. Across credit cycles, we have not seen default contagion spanning many industries – typically, only a handful of industries would be badly hit in each downturn.

* Deals with less than 250 million collateral notional outstanding are excluded.

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– In the CLO market, it appears that the term ‘CLO performance or resilience’ could carry many meanings. CLO performance or resilience is typically referred to as a CLO deal’s metrics performance (or the resilience of CLO tranche ratings) rather than a CLO’s investment performance. In other words, a CLO tranche could underperform even when their deal metrics are looking good!

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