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2020: A Year of Surprises (Part Four)
We continue our special series with the fourth of “Five Biggest Private Capital Surprises of 2020”: Surprise #4: Which Industries Mattered? For experienced credit managers, diversity is a critical guiding principle. This applies to both industry concentration as well as commitment sizes. The question coming into last March’s downturn was, have we made the right…
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Chart of the Week: Hot Spots
Reflecting investors’ preference for defensive sectors, business services led all industries for loans recently launched.
PDI Picks – 2/1/2021
Views from the investor frontline Distress, recession and mature markets are all front of mind for LPs keeping the faith in private debt. Our latest study of investors in private debt unearthed the following findings: Distressed and special sits move into focus: As can be seen from the chart above, more than a third of…
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Loan Stats at a Glance – 2/1/2021
Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis – 1/25/2021
US sponsored middle market direct lending volume reached US$71bn in 2020 According to Refinitiv LPC data, the US direct lending middle market totaled US$71bn in loan volume last year, 18% lower than 2019’s US$87bn level. Despite the lower number, the direct lending market held up better than its syndicated counterpart, where non-sponsored volume dropped 27%…
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Correlation Nation: Private Credit…and Everything Else
We continue our special series with the second of our “Five Biggest Private Capital Surprises of 2020:” Surprise #2: Non-Correlated Trends – Infections, Markets, and the Economy At their lowest moments in the Global Financial Crisis and the Global Biological Crisis, financial markets swooned in synch as investors found no safe havens. Bad news sunk […]
Special Report: Private Credit – Better than Ever
Beginning in August 2020 The Lead Left published a series of articles on the state of private credit in a COVID environment. This report consolidates those articles.
The Pulse of Private Equity – 1/25/2021
-6.2% Q1 performance for private debt Download PitchBook’s Report here. Private debt performance struggled in Q1, according to PitchBook’s just released Global Private Debt Report. Globally, private debt funds recorded a 6.2% drop in IRR in the first quarter. While not surprising, it was the worst quarterly performance since the financial crisis, when reliable performance data…
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