Dealers prepping new CDOs

Despite growing risk aversion in the credit markets, behind the scenes dealers are working on new issues of collateralised debt obligations.

In a month when correlation across all risk asset classes has spiked to levels last seen during the financial crisis, it wouldn’t seem the most opportune time to be structuring new collateralised debt obligation transactions.

Nevertheless, encouraged by low interest rates and falling corporate default rates – and the hope that the current volatility subsides in the near future – active participants in the CDO market say a number of deals are currently in the works. 

“We hear several deals being