Private Debt Intelligence – 2/20/2017

Credit Strategies Start 2017 with Positive Performance in January

Preqin research finds that credit strategies have maintained their positive performance from 2016, with a strong start to the year through January 2017, as investor and fund manager confidence in the strategy grows.

Credit strategies were the second best performing leading hedge fund strategy last year with annual returns of 8.50%, well outstripping the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark (7.40%)…

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Great Expectations

The vast majority of respondents to William Blair’s survey on leverage lending conditions believe leverage and terms will either loosen or remain unchanged.

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Private Debt Intelligence – 2/13/2017

Private Debt Investors Delighted with Fund Performance

At the end of 2016, Preqin conducted surveys with over 90 private debt investors in order to gauge their satisfaction with the performance of the private debt asset class and to ascertain their investment plans for both 2017 and long-term future.

More than a quarter (27%) of private debt investors surveyed stated that the performance had exceeded their expectations, an increase of nine percentage points compared to the end of 2015…

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