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An ABS/CLO cash flow model projects the financial performance of asset-backed securities or collateralized loan obligations by simulating a diversified loan pool through prepayment, default, and recovery scenarios. The model answers whether a CLO structure can generate target returns for equity investors (typically 12% cash-on-cash) while protecting each rated tranche through interest and principal waterfalls, overcollateralisation (OC) tests, and interest coverage (IC) mechanics that trigger automatic amortisation when leverage ratios breach trigger levels. The pool performance is driven by weighted average coupon (WAC), conditional prepayment rate (CPR), conditional default rate (CDR), and recovery rates, all of which vary by credit cycle and economic assumptions.

The workbook contains a detailed collateral pool roll-forward tracking performing balances, scheduled amortisation, prepayments, defaults, and reinvested principal during the reinvestment period, plus a combined interest and principal waterfall that prioritises senior fee recovery and sequential tranche payments according to the deal's capital structure. Overcollateralisation and interest coverage tests divert excess cash to senior tranche pay-down (turbo amortisation) whenever credit metrics weaken, automatically protecting rated investors. Equity returns are tracked separately from tranche payments, with incentive fee mechanics that align the CLO manager's upside with equity holder returns above a specified hurdle.

Structured credit investors, rating agencies, and commercial lenders rely on CLO models to stress test collateral performance, confirm that DSCR and subordination levels will weather recession scenarios, and project equity distribution waterfalls across the reinvestment and amortisation periods.