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Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 5/20/2024

New institutional loan volume remains limited in May Refinancings continue to dominate the US institutional loan calendar in 2Q24 as issuers including Golden Entertainment, 84 Lumber, Filtration Group, USI, PCI Pharma, Vertiv and Standard Building Solutions announced that they are readying repricings…. Login to Read More...

PDI Picks – 5/20/2024

The challenges of technology Private debt firms may need to make cutting-edge processes a higher priority. When talking about what makes their business tick, private markets managers are usually keen to emphasise their focus on building relationships, on skilled teams of staff and expertise in chosen verticals. While these are no doubt crucial to building…

Where We Are (First of a Series)

A friend of long-standing and keen observer of capital markets for almost a half-century tells us: “When a rising Dow hits 10,000 increments, investors feel good, even though optimism may not be justified.” And so we find ourselves mid-second quarter of 2024 with the Dow having reached 40,000, a destination that was Shangri-La not long ago….

Best Practices in Private Credit (Fourth of a Series)

Understanding the connection between business and structural risks is one of the keys to successful credit investing. “Good company, bad balance sheet” is how opportunistic credit managers describe troubled but attractive situations in which to invest. It’s helpful to examine these transactions for clues as to how the borrower got a bad balance sheet to […]