Cash Flow Model: Kloeckner Pentaplast’s High Leverage Under Base Case Mitigated by Sufficient Liquidity Under All Scenarios Kloeckner Pentaplast’s second-quarter results are expected to show significant improvements by management to pass through raw material costs during the German plastics packaging group’s previous two quarters.KP’s €300 million senior unsecured notes due 2026 have rallied on the…
Debt finds a foothold in the Middle East The region may be at a nascent stage, but private debt firms are seeing signs for optimism. As a relatively new asset class, private debt remains heavily undeveloped outside of North America and Europe. But some are tipping the Middle East and North Africa to be one…
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We caught up with Joseph Lavorgna, Natixis’ chief US economist, who served recently as chief economist of the National Economic Council. “People forget what real inflation is,” he told us. “I was seven years old during the oil embargo in the 1970’s when there were gas lines. Oil prices went from $4/barrel to $40. Imagine […]
A handful of larger BDCs failed to cover dividend in 1Q21 Larger BDCs, including Owl Rock and Ares Capital Corp, saw lower net investment income levels for 1Q21, raising concerns over dividend coverage. BDCs generally use NII per share as a measure of whether their earnings can continue to support the declared dividend…. Subscribe to
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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…
Long-dated fund market is growing Download PitchBook’s Report here. Long-dated funds are growing in popularity. A new analyst note from PitchBook takes a closer look at the growing market, generally defined as funds built to last for 15 years or more. It’s a relatively new phenomenon that started less than a decade ago, but has since…
“We are in a new era with the Fed. They have a new reaction function…[and] this is their first trip around the track with it.” – Anne Mathias, senior strategist, Vanguard. Inflation, or the threat of it, presents challenges for both regulators and investors. Higher inflation generally impacts fixed income assets negatively as increased rates…