$82.5 million of notes affected
New York, March 06, 2023 — Moody’s Buyers Service (“Moody’s”) has upgraded the scores on the next notes issued by CIFC Funding 2013-IV, Ltd.:
U.S.$59,000,000 Class B-RR Senior Secured Floating Fee Notes due 2031 (the “Class B-RR Notes”), Upgraded to Aa1 (sf); beforehand on Could 29, 2018 Definitive Score Assigned Aa2 (sf)
U.S.$23,500,000 Class C-RR Mezzanine Secured Deferrable Floating Fee Notes due 2031 (the “Class C-RR Notes”), Upgraded to A1 (sf); beforehand on Could 29, 2018 Definitive Score Assigned A2 (sf)
CIFC Funding 2013-IV, Ltd., initially issued in November 2013 and refinanced in Could 2018 is a managed cashflow CLO. The notes are collateralized primarily by a portfolio of broadly syndicated senior secured company loans. The transaction’s reinvestment interval will finish in April 2023.
RATINGS RATIONALE
These ranking actions replicate the good thing about the quick time frame remaining earlier than the top of the deal’s reinvestment interval in April 2023. In gentle of the reinvestment restrictions through the amortization interval which restrict the power of the supervisor to impact vital modifications to the present collateral pool, Moody’s analyzed the deal assuming a better probability that the collateral pool traits can be maintained and proceed to fulfill sure covenant necessities. Particularly, Moody’s assumed that the deal will profit from decrease WARF and better unfold in comparison with the respective covenant ranges. Moody’s modeled a WARF of 2846 and a WAS of three.47% in comparison with its present covenant ranges of 2983 and three.30%, respectively. The deal has additionally benefited from a shortening of the portfolio’s weighted common life since February 2022.
Moody’s modeled the transaction utilizing a money move mannequin based mostly on the Binomial Enlargement Method, as described in “Moody’s International Method to Score Collateralized Mortgage Obligations.”
The important thing mannequin inputs Moody’s utilized in its evaluation, equivalent to par, weighted common ranking issue, range rating, weighted common unfold, and weighted common restoration fee, are based mostly on its revealed methodology and will differ from the trustee’s reported numbers. For modeling functions, Moody’s used the next base-case assumptions:
Performing par and principal proceeds steadiness: $485,554,960
Defaulted par: $10,161,887
Range Rating: 86
Weighted Common Score Issue (WARF): 2846
Weighted Common Unfold (WAS) (earlier than accounting for reference fee flooring): 3.47%
Weighted Common Restoration Fee (WARR): 47.6%
Weighted Common Life (WAL): 4.3 years
Along with base case evaluation, Moody’s ran further eventualities the place outcomes may diverge from the bottom case. The extra eventualities think about a number of elements individually or together, and embrace: defaults by obligors whose low scores or debt costs recommend misery, defaults by obligors with potential refinancing threat, deterioration within the credit score high quality of the underlying portfolio, lower in general WAS or web curiosity earnings, and decrease recoveries on defaulted property.
Methodology Used for the Score Motion
The principal methodology utilized in these scores was “Moody’s International Method to Score Collateralized Mortgage Obligations” revealed in December 2021 and out there at https://scores.moodys.com/api/rmc-documents/74832. Alternatively, please see the Score Methodologies web page on https://scores.moodys.com for a duplicate of this technique.
Elements that Would Result in an Improve or Downgrade of the Scores:
The efficiency of the rated notes is topic to uncertainty. The efficiency of the rated notes is delicate to the efficiency of the underlying portfolio, which in flip is dependent upon financial and credit score circumstances that will change. The Supervisor’s funding choices and administration of the transaction may also have an effect on the efficiency of the rated notes.
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
For additional specification of Moody’s key ranking assumptions and sensitivity evaluation, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity to Assumptions within the disclosure kind. Moody’s Score Symbols and Definitions could be discovered on https://scores.moodys.com/rating-definitions.
The evaluation depends on an evaluation of collateral traits to find out the collateral loss distribution, that’s, the operate that correlates to an assumption concerning the probability of incidence to every stage of doable losses within the collateral. As a second step, Moody’s evaluates every doable collateral loss situation utilizing a mannequin that replicates the related structural options to derive funds and due to this fact the final word potential losses for every rated instrument. The loss a rated instrument incurs in every collateral loss situation, weighted by assumptions concerning the probability of occasions in that situation occurring, leads to the anticipated lack of the rated instrument.
Moody’s quantitative evaluation entails an analysis of eventualities that stress elements contributing to sensitivity of scores and keep in mind the probability of extreme collateral losses or impaired money flows. Moody’s weights the influence on the rated devices based mostly on its assumptions of the probability of the occasions in such eventualities occurring.
For scores issued on a program, collection, class/class of debt or safety this announcement supplies sure regulatory disclosures in relation to every ranking of a subsequently issued bond or observe of the identical collection, class/class of debt, safety or pursuant to a program for which the scores are derived solely from present scores in accordance with Moody’s ranking practices. For scores issued on a help supplier, this announcement supplies sure regulatory disclosures in relation to the credit standing motion on the help supplier and in relation to every specific credit standing motion for securities that derive their credit score scores from the help supplier’s credit standing. For provisional scores, this announcement supplies sure regulatory disclosures in relation to the provisional ranking assigned, and in relation to a definitive ranking which may be assigned subsequent to the ultimate issuance of the debt, in every case the place the transaction construction and phrases haven’t modified previous to the project of the definitive ranking in a way that may have affected the ranking. For additional data please see the issuer/deal web page for the respective issuer on https://scores.moodys.com.
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Sam Spackman
Vice President – Senior Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody’s Buyers Service, Inc.
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Ramon O. Torres
Senior Vice President/Supervisor
Structured Finance Group
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