Strong investor demand for cash flow and synthetic CDOs
Dollar volume issuance up 118.7% in U.S. and 122.9% in Europe
- U.S. saw growth in cash flow sector
- Driven by high-yield Collateralized Loan Obligations and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) of asset-backed securities transactions
- Hybrid transactions drove synthetic issuance
- Europe: Strong investor appetite for cash CDOs
- Increasing number of deals in Europe coming from U.S.-based managers targeting more attractive spreads