Loan pricing tightens amid record demand from CLOs and transition away from LIBOR Source: Debtwire Par With the transition from LIBOR to SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) beginning to play out towards the end of the year, pricing dynamics led to a sharp tightening in loan yields from previous years. While the average margin on…
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Inflation and interest rates are linked but not always in straightforward ways. Fear of higher prices can drive rates up, while markets may ignore actual inflation having anticipated it. Recent data has certainly created alarming headlines. Last Friday’s CPI report showed November’s consumer prices up 6.8% versus a year ago. Not since 1982 (when Joe […]
Beginning in September 2021 The Lead Left published a series of articles on supply chain. This report consolidates those articles.
Record US$1.8tr of US leveraged issuance clears market in 2021 In the absence of major market blips or deepening concerns around deteriorating credit quality, US leveraged lenders supported nearly US$1.8tr in loan and bond issuance in 2021, the highest total on record. The unabated presence of Covid-19 certainly impacted lender operations in so far as…
Source: Cliffwater Direct Lending Index and BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The red line in the chart is the *Cliffwater Direct Lending Index (CDLI) current yield, which is based on the investment income of the underlying assets held by public and private BDCs. BDCs invest in middle market companies, and the Index…
Predicting the year ahead Download PitchBook’s Report here. Every year, PitchBook gets into the prediction game. This year’s US Private Equity Outlook has 7 predictions, including an intriguing one for middle market software investment. 2021 set records for PE software activity – 317 deals totaling $45 billion in aggregate value. For 2022, we’re predicting 400 software…
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Percentage of Deals with 75+ bps MFN (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller