Capacity limits in AsiaPac?
A blast from the (recent) past blew in from the US last week, with the news that US investment group Fraser Sullivan had issued the first collateralized loan obligation (CLO) from a major financial house in over a year.
The leverage instrument of choice – though not in Asia – for the buyout boom that peaked in 2005-08, the CLO repackaged the leverage debt on LBO deals into tradable instruments sold on to institutional...
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