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1. European Leveraged Loan Market Update
November - 2010
Sucheet Gupte - Associate Director

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3. The Market in October
• Activity picks up where it left of at end of 3Q
• Volume: Loans + high-yield bonds = €67B, way more
than all of 2009
• Loans return 1.42% during month, 6.57% YTD
out
• Market confidence growing; discounts narrow,
secondary prices rise
• Inflows into high-yield bond, loan mutual funds
continue
• Default rates ease further

4. European Loan Flow Names - 2010
98
96.96 as of
19 November
96
Text
94
92
1/7/10 3/11/10 5/13/10 07/15/10 09/16/09 11/19/10
. Source: LCD - Leveraged Commentary & Data

5. European HY Bond Flow Names - 2010
100
98.78 as of
15 November
98
96
Text
94
92
90
88
1/28/10 3/18/10 5/6/10 6/24/10 8/13/10 9/30/10 11/19/10
Source: Bloomberg
.

6. Advancers vs. decliners, per ELLI
10.0
Text
5.0
0
(5.0)
Jan-09 Apr-09 Jul-09 Oct-09 Jan-10 Apr-10 Jul-10 Oct-10

7. ELLI Multi-Currency Loan Index Return (monthly)
7.0%
October: +1.42%
YTD 2010: +6.57%
4.8%
2.5%
0.3%
Text
(2.0%)
3/09 7/31/09 11/09 3/10 7/10 10/31
.
Source: LCD - Leveraged Commentary & Data

8. New-issue Loans vs. HY Bonds, by Month
12
HY bonds
Loans
9
€billions
Text
6 €6.2B
3
€2.6B
0
7/09 9/09 11/09 1/10 3/10 5/10 7/10 9/10 10/10
Source: LCD - Leveraged Commentary & Data
.

9. ELLI Default Rates – European Leveraged Loans
by principle amount by number of defaults
13% 16%
9% 12%
6% 8%
5.26% as of Text 7.69% as of
30 Sept. 2010 30 Sept. 2010
3% 4%
0% 0%
12/31/07 6/30/09 4/30/10 9/10 12/31/07 6/30/09 4/30/10 9/10
. Source: LCD - Leveraged Commentary & Data

10. What’s in Store: 4Q Trends
• Market tone continues healthy
• New-issue calendar likely to build into 2011
• With eye on demand, arrangers look both to loan and
high-yield markets
out
• Refinancings, secondary LBOs likely

11. European Leveraged Loan Market Update
November - 2010
Sucheet Gupte - Associate Director