Issuance of Collateralized Loan Obligations Projected to Fall in 2016, Bucking Trends in Structured Finance Arena
January 15, 2016
Industry analysts project that the volume of collateralized loan obligations issued this year will decline compared with 2015 because of regulatory and other factors. Among projections for various MBS and ABS asset types by Standard & Poor’s, CLOs are the only securities expected to see a decline in volume in 2016 compared with last year. CLOs differ from many other structured finance products in that they involve a special purpose issuer that acquires a portfolio of commercial loans ...