Can Europe close the fundraising gap? Our fundraising data show North America pulling clear as the favourite investor destination. However, Europe’s relative decline may not be long-lasting. Over the last couple of weeks in this column, we have reflected on a couple of the key themes arising from our Q1 2021 fundraising data. The first…
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News reached us from Mars of the first powered Earth aircraft to fly on another planet. Ingenuity, a helicopter with four foot wide blades (and carrying a small swatch from the original Wright Brothers bi-plane), hovered at ten feet for 30 seconds then came back down. “What the Ingenuity team has done,” a NASA official […]
Robust loan fund flows in April top US$4bn Loan mutual funds recorded US$1.06bn in inflows last week, its third consecutive week of US$1bn+ inflows and 15th consecutive week of positive flows, according to data from Refinitiv Lipper. April’s results follow 1Q21 volume of US$14.074bn, the highest quarterly total since 3Q13…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a
Back in January we featured content from Lincoln International’s Valuations and Opinion team [link]. Topics included Covid’s impact on private credit terms, structures and pricing. Shortly thereafter the team reached out to road test a loan index created from Lincoln’s quarterly valuations of 2,400 private companies. Metrics included total return, price, spread, and yield to…
Returns for middle market loans are less volatile than their BSL counterparts, and higher, on average.
Liberty Power Holdings LLC bankruptcy filing Liberty Power Holdings LLC, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based retail electricity provider servicing 14 states, filed for chapter 11 protection on Tuesday, April 21, in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida as the latest victim of severe wholesale electricity price hikes by the Electric Reliability Council of…
Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
Investors put faith in senior debt Fundraising may be a struggle for some, but for those with senior debt strategies the outlook is somewhat brighter. In last week’s edition of PDI Picks, we brought you our global private debt fundraising figures for the first quarter of this year. If you recall, they showed a still…