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Business of Private Credit: Coming Home

Much attention has been paid to the suitability of Matt Damon in the lead role as the wily Odysseus in this summer’s Christopher Nolan blockbuster.

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    Distribution of MFN Sunset Horizons

    (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)

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    The syndicated fightback

    As expected, the BSL market is retaking some of the ground lost to direct lending for larger deals. A recent…

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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 6/3/2024

    Source: PitchBook LCDContact: Ryan BrownRyan.Brown@pitchbook.com

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    Best Practices in Private Credit (Sixth of a Series)

    Our underwriting teams start by analyzing financials from portfolio company CFOs, comparing them to prior year, budget, and downside cases.…

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    Percentage of Loans with Asset Sale Sweep Step-downs

    (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)

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    Fitch’s Private Middle Market Portfolio, Rating Activity

    Download FitchRating’s Report here. Downgrades greatly outweighed upgrades in 1Q24 as high interest rates affected the FCF and financial flexibility…

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    The Pulse of Private Equity – 5/27/2024

    Download PitchBook’s Report here. Private credit continues to dominate the number of buyout financings while lending from public business development companies…

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    Daily Analytic: Services and healthcare sectors see most loans added to non-accrual status in 1Q24

    The weighted average non-accrual rate for public and private BDCs combined ticked down to 1.39% in 1Q24 from 1.50% in…

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    Arguments for the middle way

    A new report examines themes in the mid-market and finds optimism growing as investors seek to diversify. It has undeniably…

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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 5/27/2024

    Source: PitchBook LCDContact: Ryan BrownRyan.Brown@pitchbook.com

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    Different Tracks

    Lower earnings activity is not always synchronized with worse economic performance. Source: Nuveen Multi-Asset, Bloomberg monthly S&P trailing 12 month…

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    Where We Are (Second of a Series)

    How challenging has it been to predict the next recession? An inverted Treasury yield curve, a reliable forecaster of the…

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    Best Practices in Private Credit (Fifth of a Series)

    This week we continue our series on best practices of top private credit firms with a look at how underwriting…

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    Shutting up shop: post-pandemic retail sector restructurings continue

    The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a significant transformation of the US retail landscape, fueling a dramatic shift in consumer behavior.

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    Private Debt Intelligence - 5/20/2024

    Is an IPO revival in the pipeline? [wpdm_package id=’69976′] The IPO market ran cold in 2023 as high global interest…

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    The Pulse of Private Equity – 5/20/2024

    Download PitchBook’s Report here. Within PE subcategories, we expect buyout funds to continue to garner the bulk of fundraising in the…

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