CDO/CLO Industry in 2018?

Wondering if anyone can comment on the current CDO/CLO industry. Current market trends, amount of new issuance, regulation post crisis. Is this still a dead market? Do you see it ever making a comeback?

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CLO new issuance is alive and well. It has been for several years. CLOs held up vastly better than the ABS CDOs that famously went to zero and are no longer manufactured. The revival of CRE CLOs has been a little slower, but getting some traction. There was about ~120bln of new issue in the CLO space in 2017.

 

Seeing the same thing on our desks. Has a lot to do with the 3month LIBOR sitting around 2.3% coupled with the fact that the leveraged loan market has positive exposure to a rising rate environment. As for regulation read up Basel III and the Volcker Rule in relation to the CDO/CLO space. The market for these instruments is anything but dead.

 
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CLOs only: This market never really went anywhere. Issuance dropped to nothing for 2years during the crisis because nobody was lending - therefore there werent any loans to collateralize new issuance. However, I'd note that existing CLOs didnt blow up like the subprime CDOs did.

Most CLOs are backed by leveraged loans that finance PE sponsor LBOs. As long as PE sponsors exist, there will be CLOs (or some product similar to them).

http://www.leveragedloan.com/surpassing-expectations-2017-us-clo-issuan…

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i'm curious about this question too. I think less issuance for a while until the mess clears up. What do you guys think about CDO's long term, and espeically boutique firms that issue CDO's?

 

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