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Demystifying European Asset Backed SecuritiesNovember 2016
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TwentyFour is a leader in the ABS industry, with nine investment professionals. This represents one of the largest pools of talent in the industry dedicated to European ABS. TwentyFour’s experience in ABS goes back a long way – to 1989 when Rob Ford, then at Barclays Bank, issued the first European securitisation. Prior to joining TwentyFour Asset Management, Ben Hayward and Eoin Walsh managed Europe’s largest ABS funds. TwentyFour went on to launch the first dedicated retail RMBS fund in 2009 and then launched the first dedicated listed European ABS fund in 2013.
Since its foundation in 2008, TwentyFour and the ABS team have won numerous awards and regularly train and advise sovereign institutions on fixed income and ABS. Our partners also participate in industry and regulatory bodies to set standards and improve market liquidity.
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Figure 1: ABS issuance and cash flows
Demystifying European Asset Backed Securities
Income is hard to come by these days. Ultra-low interest rates have meant that previous sources of income have become increasingly elusive. That is why asset backed securities (ABS) – once shunned in the wake of the financial crisis – are now back in favour. They are one of the few types of bonds which are able to deliver an attractive return today.
This is particularly true for Europe, whose ABS market is characterised by solid fundamentals, high underwriting standards and attractive spreads. It’s an under-researched area of the market, providing good opportunities for income-seeking investors.
In this paper, we will try to demystify European ABS. First we explain
how ABS work, their investment characteristics and how European
ABS differ from both US ABS and senior loans. We then go on to
discuss how European ABS can fit into a fixed income portfolio and
why it’s an attractive investment.
HOW ABS WORKABS are backed by a specific pool of financial assets. For instance,
these can be credit card loans, auto loans or mortgage loans. Just
like corporate bonds they pay interest periodically on a defined
basis. The difference is that these interest payments are not usually
fixed rate. They typically offer a margin over a floating rate index
such as 3 month GBP LIBOR or 3 month EURIBOR – the rates
that banks lend to one another. However, just like all fixed income
products, they pay the principal back at maturity.
A special purpose vehicle (SPV) is the legal entity used to issue
ABS bonds, also known as securitisation. The SPV buys a pool of
loans or other assets from a financial institution, such as a bank or
building society. The SPV then issues bonds to end investors. Then
the underlying assets in the pool pay the coupon on the bonds (See
Figure 1 below). These bonds are known as Asset Backed Securities
or ABS because they are secured on the specific pool of collateral
held by the SPV.
WHY ISSUE ABS?ABS are typically issued as a funding tool for the sponsoring entity.
For example, a bank will issue mortgage backed securities to fund a
specific pool of mortgages. In limited scenarios the sponsor will be
able to claim capital relief, provided the sponsor can meet certain
accounting and risk-transfer conditions, although following changes
to regulations in recent years this is rare.
As ABS are generally only used as a funding tool, they make up
part of the sponsoring entity’s treasury funding options. For a bank,
ABS can sit alongside deposits, covered bonds, senior debt and other
bonds as a way of obtaining leverage on their capital.
AT A GLANCE• ABS are mainly floating rate securities, which have near-
zero interest rate risk.
• ABS provide higher yields than traditional fixed income
instruments for a given rating.
• They are issued by financial institutions as a treasury
funding tool and in some cases can offer capital relief.
• ABS enable investors to gain exposure to a pool of specific
assets and are structured to provide attractive defensive
risk characteristics.
• European ABS are fundamentally different to US ABS,
with higher lending standards, and recourse to the
original borrower. Historically, expected cumulative
lifetime loss rates are 1.0% for the entirety of European
ABS, whereas US loss rates are 7.3%.¹
• ABS offer significant advantages over senior secured
loans, with collateralised loan obligations enabling higher
yields with lower risks than similar senior secured loans.
• It is an opportune time to invest in ABS, given attractive
yields, improving fundamentals, limited supply and
potential for capital gains if spreads tighten.
Sponsore.g. Bank A
SPVBank A Mortgages
2016-1
ABSInvestors
IssuesABS
Sellsloans and assets
Buys ABSABS issuance proceeds
1 Structured Finance Losses 2000-2014, Fitch Global, 7th February 2015
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Figure 2: Different types of ABS
There are many different types of ABS that investors can choose from,
backed by different types of assets with slightly different characteristics.
Some of these differences are highlighted below in Figure 2.
Yield and risk characteristics of each type of ABS vary widely
depending on the combination of underlying assets, rating, collateral
and structure so it is difficult to provide general ranges per type
of ABS. That said, as an illustration, at the tight end of the market
both Dutch triple-A prime mortgage ABS and German triple-A auto
loan ABS are trading at around 20-30bps over EURIBOR, whereas
single-A rated CLOs and prime RMBS offer spreads around 320bps,
rising to 500-700 bps as ratings reduce to double-B.3
Note that although the rest of the paper uses examples involving
RMBS, the principles outlined apply to all of the above types of ABS.
WHAT DO THESE ABS ASSET POOLS LOOK LIKE?They typically focus on assets from a:
• Single geography i.e. the Netherlands or Spain
• Single type i.e. residential or commercial mortgages
• Single originator i.e. a bank such as Santander or Barclays
The exceptions here are CLOs and CMBS where a blending of
geographies may occur.
Another key difference to other asset classes is that ABS issuers
produce reports which show how loans within each of their pools are
performing. This enables experienced managers to accurately analyse
and value ABS, as well as enabling ABS buyers to ensure they only gain
exposure to the specific markets and assets, thus avoiding exposure to
segments and assets perceived as undesirable by the manager. ABS
is a niche, complex sector and therefore not highly researched, which
enables expert managers to consistently find value.
WHAT DOES THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE OF A TYPICAL ABS LOOK LIKE?ABS deals typically issue multiple bonds that are tranched into different currencies, maturities and most significantly, seniority. This is the key difference between ABS and other structures. It means that the cash flows from the underlying asset pool is used to pay the ABS tranches in turn, from senior to junior. Thus the cash flows appear to flow down the ABS structure, as shown in the diagram (Figure 3) overleaf. Similarly, defaults flow up the structure.
This pooled structure means that the risk associated with
holding a given tranche of ABS depends primarily on the quality of
the collateral and the probability of default in the underlying asset
pool. If there are defaults then the seniority of the tranche in the
ABS structure comes into play. Thus, senior ABS at the “top” of a
structure may be rated triple-A, while the more junior mezzanine
tranches may be rated double- or single-B.
To compensate investors for the risk they take, junior tranches
will offer higher returns than more senior tranches. An investor can
then purchase the tranches they need to satisfy their appetite for
risk and yield.
In addition, ABS investors benefit from three types of protection.
Figure 3 overleaf explains how this works using residential
mortgage-backed securities as an example. A similar approach is
used across other types of ABS, wherever the ABS is secured on an
asset, such as Auto loans or Commercial Real Estate transactions.
For unsecured lending such as credit card receivables the borrower
equity concept does not apply.
Type Description Volume2
Residential mortgage backed
securities (RMBS)
RMBS are pools of mortgage loans created by banks and
other financial institutions. They represent the largest component of
the European ABS market and are the most liquid.
€ 910 bn
Consumer receivables
Consumer receivables include a large variety of unsecured
consumer debt types that have been securitised including auto loans,
credit card receivables and unsecured personal loans.
€ 230 bn
Commercial mortgage backed
securities (CMBS)
CMBS are mortgage-backed securities backed by commercial
mortgages rather than residential mortgages. CMBS use structures
similar to other forms of ABS.
€ 95 bn
Collateralised loan obligations
(CLOs)
CLOs are pools of corporate loans, refinanced in a securitised
structure. These can either be static pools from a bank balance sheet
or a managed product run by a specialist loan manager.
€ 60 bn
Total € 1.4 tn
2 Securities Industry and Financial Market Association as of end 2015, TwentyFour Asset Management. Note definition of each market segment is not precise and differs between market data providers.
3 TwentyFour Asset Management as of June 2016. See Figure 8 for further details.
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1. HOMEOWNER EQUITYThe first loss is absorbed by the home owner’s equity in the
property. In our example above, this amounts to €280 million or 28
percent. In other words, before ABS bondholders suffer any losses,
three things would need to happen: on average house prices would
have to fall more than 28 percent, homeowners would need to
default and the other protections mentioned below would need to
be exhausted.
2. EXCESS INTERESTThis is the interest in excess of what is needed to pay the coupons
on the ABS, represented by the white box in the diagram above. It
normally goes to the issuer of the ABS. However, if there is a loss on
the sale of a defaulted property, this excess interest from the rest of
the performing mortgage pool covers the loss. Therefore, it provides
additional protection for the bondholder and helps to align the
interest of the bondholder and issuer.
3. RESERVE FUNDThis is a cash account set up by the bond issuer. It acts as a further
cushion for protection and can be drawn down to offset losses.
Once these three layers of protection are exhausted, losses are
allocated to the most junior tranches. In the diagram above, the first
tranche is rated double-B. The tranche has to be written down to
zero before losses are recorded in the next tranche, rated triple-B.
This affords additional protection for ABS in more senior tranches,
such as those rated triple-A. Collectively these three layers of
protection plus tranching provide “credit enhancement”.
ABS risks also reduce with time. Firstly, as the loan is paid down
the outstanding principal is reduced. Secondly, rising asset prices
improve the collateral’s value. The same is also true for the ABS
deals themselves. As the underlying asset pool is amortised (through
prepayment, maturity or even the gradual amortisation through
scheduled monthly repayments), the relative size of the protection
layers generally increases: junior tranches, home owner’s equity and
the reserve fund.
LET’S REITERATE THE BENEFITS OF EUROPEAN ABS:• Bankruptcy remote: The assets sit within a segregated legal
entity – the SPV – protecting them from outside events such as
bankruptcy of the sponsor.
• Direct recourse: They are backed by specific asset or loan
pools, where the coupons and principal are generated by the
underlying assets.
• Built-in loss protection: They are structured into multiple layers
of risk – once credit enhancement is exhausted, junior tranches
take losses before more senior ones.
• Highly granular: They are geographically diverse, containing
thousands of real economy assets such as residential mortgages,
auto loans, credit cards or SME loans.
• Highly transparent: They offer detailed and frequent reporting,
thereby enabling investors to conduct quantitative and
qualitative research.
• Alignment of interest: The issuers are required by regulatory
authorities to retain “skin in the game”.
HOW EUROPEAN ABS DIFFER FROM US ABSAlthough they share the same acronym, European ABS are not
the same as their US counterparts. European ABS have distinct
differences making them more investor friendly, with a much better
track record.
These differences include:
1. Higher lending standards – The lending standards for European
residential mortgage backed securities are generally higher
than their US counterparts as borrowers are required to hold
significant equity in the property and demonstrate proof of
income before loans are granted. Unlike in the US, there is no
true “sub-prime” market in Europe. In the US, the RMBS market
predominately focuses on “sub-prime” because the prime market
largely conforms to agency lending standard i.e. those set by
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
RMBS: A Sample Structure
€1bnproperty pool €720m
mortgagepool
AAA Notes
AA Notes
A Notes
BBB Notes
BB Notes
Reserve Fund
Excess interest
Mortgages
Interest &Principal
Total NotesIssued €720m
Home owner’s equity:absorbs first loss Further losses
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Figure 3: Example ABS capital structure
2. Alignment of Interest – In the majority of deals in the European
ABS market, the first loss piece is retained by the issuer of
the ABS. Historically, in most US RMBS all the risk was fully
transferred from issuer to the bondholder, encouraging the
issuer to focus on increasing volume to earn origination fees
rather than maintaining quality.
3. Recourse – The US mortgage market is a non-recourse market,
so the property is the only way of mitigating a loss in a default
scenario. This means that borrowers in default can hand the keys
for a property back to the bank with no threat of further action
to enforce repayment. In European mortgage markets, the lender
can continue to pursue borrowers for recovery after default for a
multi-year period. This has a material impact on the post-default
life of the borrower, creating a more powerful obligation to pay.
This has led to much lower default rates in comparison.
ADVANTAGES OVER SENIOR SECURED LOANSSenior secured loans are loans made to corporates, typically of
sub-investment grade, which will be originated by banks but may be
syndicated to investors. These loans are secured on the assets of the
corporate. CLOs are then bonds which are backed by senior secured
loans, which gives the CLOs attractive ABS characteristics. Here we
compare senior secured loans to ABS because both fit into clients’
alternative allocations and can fulfil similar client needs. However,
ABS offer significant advantages over the loan market:
• Larger: The European ABS market at about € 1.4 trillion is far
larger and more liquid than the loan market, which is only around
€100 bn5, making it less suitable for institutional investment.
• More choice: Loan issuers are typically sub-investment grade,
whereas ABS offers a wide range of credit ratings from triple-A to
unrated.
• Greater diversification: ABS are structured with loss-absorbing
characteristics and pool risks across a diverse set of many
loans, meaning that large-scale defaults and reductions in
property value are needed to cause losses to investors. In
contrast, senior loans depend on individual companies’ ability
to make repayments, meaning that one default can result in
losses for investors.
• Diverse exposures: The loan market contains purely corporate
exposure, whereas ABS enables exposure to corporate and
consumer lending.
• Better risk-return: The European ABS market has a lower
default and loss rate than the European loan market, plus
European ABS offers a higher yield on a comparable rating basis.
Rather than making a direct investment in a senior loan, the loan
market can be accessed via the CLO market with better yields and
typically more defensive characteristics.
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5 Credit Suisse Institutional Western European Leveraged Loan Index, June 2016.
Europe and US are Different
Majority of RMBS Originated by Banks ✓ ✗
Generally Higher Lending Criteria ✓ ✗
Historical Use of Affordability tests ✓ ✗
Typically Recourse Lending ✓ ✗
Personal Stigma of Insolvency ✓ ✗Banks Generally Service
Securitised Assets ✓ ✗
Banks Typically Retain First Loss ✓ ✗
Cumulative expected lifetime loss rate4 0.3% 8.1%
Figure 4: Differences between European and US RMBS
4 RMBS Losses 2000-2014, Fitch Global, 7th February 2015
ADVANTAGES OF INCLUDING EUROPEAN ABS IN A PORTFOLIOEuropean ABS can add diversity to a fixed income portfolio, as well
as providing additional yield.
ABS is probably the most flexible part of the fixed income
universe, offering the ability to invest across the full spectrum of
ratings from triple-A to single-B and even unrated. By selecting
bonds carefully, a highly liquid profile can be created, or alternatively
a yield premium can be earned for less liquid positions.
With current yields ranging from EURIBOR plus 25bps
(effectively a zero yield) to the low double digit (11 percent yield in
May 2016), a risk-return profile, with a specific liquidity focus and
sectoral and geographical limits can be created for a wide range of
purposes and types of investor.
TwentyFour Asset Management currently runs mandates that
range from high quality investment-grade, to mixed investment-
grade and sub-investment grade funds that are seeking to maximise
income and capital growth. Therefore, the strategies we manage
can be compared with cash, sovereign bonds, senior secured loans,
corporate bonds and high yield bonds, but typically offer a better
risk-return profile.
Broadly speaking, our ABS products can be compared with the
following traditional asset classes, when considering the return
offered rather than other fundamental characteristics:
• An enhanced cash strategy – Cash and money market
investments
• An investment grade strategy – Corporate bonds
• A higher yield strategy – Strategic bonds, high yield bonds and
hedge funds
UNDERSTANDING THE RISKSIt is possible to classify risk on a basic level into credit risk (as
denoted by rating), interest rate risk (duration) and spread volatility
(credit spread duration and historic volatility).
Credit risk in ABS varies according to the rating of the instrument
and the rating is driven by a number of fundamental characteristics
of the security e.g. the quality of the collateral, the defensiveness
of the structure and the geography. Ratings are independently
determined by agencies such as Standard and Poor’s, Fitch and
Moody’s, based on a detailed assessment of these factors. In
Europe these ratings have proved reliable. Even during periods of
market stress such as the 2008 financial crisis, very low default rates
were observed.
The key difference to other types of fixed income investment
is that interest rate risk is minimal as the vast majority of
European ABS are floating rate.
There are no indices for European ABS, therefore it is difficult to
track volatility for segments of the market. Instead, we can compare
the volatilities and risk characteristics of the different TwentyFour
strategies in figure 5.
All of TwentyFour’s strategies are diversified across the different
types of ABS with the sector analysis designed to provide a risk-
return-liquidity profile in line with the fund’s stated aims. In general
the enhanced cash strategies’ contains higher rated instruments,
while the higher yield strategy focused on less liquid instruments.
Figure 6 shows that TwentyFour’s ABS portfolios offer higher
yields than traditional fixed income investments, even though they
invest in higher-rated assets.
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Figure 5: Risk characteristics of European ABS
6 Interest rate duration: Sensitivity of returns to changes in interest rate7 Credit duration: Sensitivity of returns to changes in credit spreads8 Gross yield of a bond is the return a bond earns on the price at which it was purchased if held to maturity. The stated gross yield is calculated at fund level and
the EUR and GBP gross yields calculated by adjusting for the relevant libor rates on each bond, as appropriate
Strategy type Weighted average Historical
default rate
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AAA
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so close to
zero
2.1yrs
None since
inception
0.51% 1.12% High
TwentyFour
Investment
Grade Strategy
AA- 3.5yrs 2.41% 3.47% High
TwentyFour
Higher Yield
Strategy
BBB 4.1yrs 5.36% 8.13% Medium
Source: TwentyFour Asset Management, 31 May 2016
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MARKET OUTLOOKEuropean ABS offer attractive yields, improving fundamentals, limited supply, and potential for capital gains through tightening spreads:
1. Attractive yields: Figure 7 below shows that for any given rating, ABS offers a higher yield than traditional fixed income.
Note that Consumer Receivables is not included below as data is sparse and focused on the higher ratings buckets. As an example,
triple-A German Auto loans currently offer yields of around 20-30bps over EURIBOR.
Figure 6: Yields and ratings of TwentyFour ABS strategies versus traditional indices Source: Bloomberg, June 20169
Figure 7: ABS and corporate spreads by rating and asset class Source: TwentyFour Asset Management, Barclays June 2016
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2. Improving fundamentals: The credit risk of European ABS has
also been improving thanks to falling unemployment (Figure
8) and a recovering housing market (Figure 9) in the markets
with greatest RMBS issuance volumes. ABS has performed
consistently well through a number of market cycles including
the recent financial crisis. During the depths of the financial crisis,
European ABS outperformed other asset classes from a default
and a loss point of view. As such, Brexit is not expected to present
significant challenges to fundamental performance.
3. Limited supply: Traditional ABS issuers have always had a
number of sources of funding ranging from retail client deposits
to equity issuance. However, with the readily available supply of
cheap funding from central banks, new ABS issuance has
dropped materially. While there have been the odd periods of
oversupply due to market technicals, this dynamic of low supply
will support price performance due to the scarcity of product.
4. Potential for capital gains: Markets have been slow to bounce
back from the volatility seen in during the first quarter of
2016, creating significant value against long run averages and
alternatives. Figure 10 shows that CLO spreads in most market
segments remain above their long-term averages, despite
volatility returning to normal. If spreads tighten, CLO owners will
make capital gains.
Figure 8: Unemployment rates in Europe, % Source: Bloomberg, June 2016
Figure 9: House Price Index, Year on Year change, % Source: Bloomberg, June 2016
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CONCLUSIONABS are mostly floating rate securities, which have minimal
interest rate risk. They provide higher yields than traditional
fixed income instruments for a given rating. They are structured
to provide credit enhancement and attractive defensive risk
characteristics, partly through pooling of assets and tranching of
bonds, and partly through other credit enhancement techniques.
Highly transparent reporting means that experienced managers are
able to gain exposure to pools of specific assets and find value within
this under-researched segment.
European ABS are fundamentally different to US ABS, with
higher lending standards, a greater alignment of interests with
bondholders and full recourse. Historically, European ABS loss rates
are significantly lower than US loss rates. ABS also offer significant
advantages over senior secured loans, with CLOs enabling higher
yields with lower risks than similar senior secured loans.
Now is an opportune time to invest in ABS, given attractive yields,
improving fundamentals, limited supply and potential for capital
gains if spreads tighten.
Figure 10: CLO spreads vs fixed income corporate indices Source: Citivelocity, May 2016
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