Insurance Companies and the Growth of Corporate Loan Securitization

Fulvia Fringuellotti and Joao Santos

No 20211013, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Collateralized loan obligation (CLO) issuances in the United States increased by a factor of thirteen between 2009 and 2019, with the volume of outstanding CLOs more than doubling to approach $647 billion by the end of that period. While researchers and policy makers have been investigating the impact of this growth on the cost and riskiness of corporate loans and the potential implications for financial stability, less attention has been paid to the drivers of this phenomenon. In this post, which is based on our recent paper, we shed light on the role that insurance companies have played in the growth of corporate loans’ securitization and identify the key factors behind that role.

Keywords: insurance companies; CLOs; regulatory arbitrage; corporate loans; securitization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-10-13
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