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What is “Collateralized Loan Obligations”?

Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) are a financial tool used to reallocate credit risk in fixed income markets. They are essentially securities that are backed by a pool of loans usually

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How CLOs differ from CDOs

Collateralized loan obligations are underpinned not by mortgages but by so-called leveraged loans. These are corporate loans from syndicates of banks that are taken out, for example, by private-equity firms

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Strong CLO market likely to continue

The collateralized loan obligation (CLO) market’s exuberant recovery from its pandemic doldrums of 2020 appears likely to continue, although credit risk is nudging upward and the market recently saw its

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CLO credit lines growing fast

Banks are giving more credit lines to firms putting together collateralized loan obligations, signaling that the intense pace of sales for the securities is only getting hotter. There may be

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Commercial real-estate CLO’s climb to sales record

Sales of securities backed by riskier commercial real-estate loans have surged to a record, highlighting investors’ demand for higher-yielding debt and expectations for a recovery in business properties.  Commercial real-estate