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The New Healthcare (Fourth of a Series)
We continue our special series on COVID-19 impacted healthcare, with a private equity conversation. Our guest is the partner of a NY-based firm. He has over two decades of experience investing in healthcare businesses. How did the current crisis unfold for you and your firm? “For the first couple of weeks it was a 100%…
Chart of the Week: States of Play
Twenty-one of the 50 states have either paused or are reversing reopening of their economies.
PDI Picks – 7/13/2020
Europe’s renaissance amid the fundraising slump Our final H1 2020 figures show the region grabbing investor attention – at least on a relative basis. It has not been the brightest of starts to a fundraising year, with just $63.1 billion raised by private debt funds globally in the first half of 2020 according to the…
Loan Stats at a Glance – 7/13/2020
Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis – 7/6/2020
2Q20 US syndicated down 46% y-o-y; 1H20 off 33% Following the shock, fear and aggressive spread of the Covid-19 virus which brought the world to a standstill in 1Q20, the pandemic and its impact on the global psyche became a mainstay in 2Q20. Across the capital markets, virtual office environments were up and running far…
State of the Capital Markets – Second Quarter 2020 Review and Third Quarter 2020 Outlook
Review of Current Market Conditions/ Analysis of Capital Markets Metrics/ Review of Credit Quality/ Outlook for Third Quarter 2020
Special Report: High Yield Bonds – A New Look
Beginning in May 2020 The Lead Left published a series of articles on high yield bonds. This report consolidates those articles.
The Post-COVID Doctor/Patient Relationship
We continue our special healthcare series with the heart of the matter: the doctor/patient relationship. We asked our primary physician in a Zoom interview about his experience. “Thank goodness for telemedicine,” he told us. “I can be very effective and have meaningful discussions with my patients. A lot of these now involve testing for the […]









