An overcollateralisation test compares the par value of the loans with the notes outstanding down to a given class; an interest-coverage test compares the interest collected with the interest due on those notes. Each has a trigger ratio, and when a ratio falls below it, cash that would have gone further down the waterfall repays the most senior notes instead. The equity tranche of a securitisation is its most junior claim, unrated, which receives whatever cash is left after every other claim has been paid.
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Example 25.5 (The excess spread)
The chapter’s CLO holds USD 500 million of loans paying 3.5% over a floating rate of 4%, USD 37.5 million a year. The manager’s fee of 0.45% costs USD 2.25 million, and the notes, from AAA at 1.30% over to BB at 6.00% over, cost USD 26.14 million. The equity, USD 50 million, receives USD 9.11 million a year, 18.2% of its investment; without defaults and with the loans sold at par after five years, its internal rate of return is 19.5%. The overcollateralisation ratios start at 1.370, 1.266, 1.176 and 1.111 at the AA, A, BBB and BB levels, against triggers of 1.25, 1.18, 1.10 and 1.05.