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Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 9/7/2020

Covenant and pricing changes were two most amended provision in 2Q20 US middle market Refinitiv LPC tracked 50 US middle market publicly filed 8K summaries that involved a loan amendment in 2Q20. The most changed provision according to those summaries was to financial covenants, where 48% of the amendments involved a change. Borrowers either received…

DL Deals: News & Analysis  - 9/7/2020

Non Accruals rise, not spike; Lower middle market BDCs steady at 7.5% BDC non-accruals rose to an average of 5.3% at June 30, up from 4.9% at the end of March, based on a DLD analysis using Refinitiv’s BDC Collateral database. Last quarter’s increase hoisted the average above the historical range of 3% to 5%…

Private Debt Intelligence - 9/7/2020

Fund Managers are committed to ESG Integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into the investment process is becoming a usual part of doing business for alternatives fund managers. The amount of capital raised by ESG-committed funds over the last five years has been unceasingly growing…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...

PDI Picks – 9/7/2020

Less for distress The coronavirus crisis may have been expected to lead to a fundraising surge for troubled companies. But investors are wary of making bad moves. Investors may be convinced of the intellectual case for changing their private credit allocations in reaction to the coronavirus crisis and its huge policy response. However, this crisis…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 9/7/2020

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…

Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 8/17/2020

Combined AUM for US CLOs and retail loan funds inched up to US$784bn in July US CLO assets under management along with loan mutual fund assets under management, inched up in July for a combined total of US$784.4bn, which remains down 1.5% from January’s US$796bn peak. Loan market outstandings ticked lower to end July at…