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CLOs: the leveraged loan market’s most idiosyncratic investors

24 October 2026 / Author(s): Jasleen Gill
Issue: November 2026 / Categories: Feature

In this article, the author considers what leveraged finance market participants need to know about CLO investors – a dominant investor class in the European leveraged loan market – and why understanding the structural constraints that drive their decision-making is crucial to participants in the European leveraged loan market.

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