Distressed debt takes centre stage A recent survey of investors by Oxane Partners found 42 percent said private credit attractiveness overall has decreased for the next 18-24 months while only 31 percent said it has increased, a net negative of 11 percent. But this loss could be distressed debt’s gain as investors show huge interest…
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Primary yields in the US institutional loan market tighten in May After spiking in April, primary US institutional yields have tightened in May, but remain at very high levels. The average yield, assuming a three-year term to repayment on first-lien institutional term loans is 8.15% in May, down from 9.45% in April. That month, issuers…
Secured issuance and higher pricing define current HY bond market Source: Debtwire Par The US high yield bond market has been printing paper at a rapid clip since reopening in April, which saw roughly USD 40.6bn in volume, the most active month this year to date, and a far cry from the USD 5.3bn seen…
The short-term forecast Download PitchBook’s Report here. PitchBook analysts expect deal flow to drop fairly substantially over the next several quarters. The trajectory is similar to the drop during the 2008 financial crisis but doesn’t reach the depths that it did in 2009. If our forecasts come close to the truth, deal volume will dip to…
One of our readers asked for help deciphering what was going on in the high-yield market. So we recruited Matt Fuller from our content partner, LevFin Insights. “From the perspective of high-yield investors,” Matt told us, “it’s a great time to be involved. We were pretty much shut down in March. Total volume was only […]
We continue our special series on high-yield bonds with a look at more deals in the market. Our tour guide on this trip, Matthew Fuller of LevFin Insights, identified several transactions as signs of market recovery. Northwest Fiber (Caa1/CCC), with a new issuer name, Ziply Fiber, came out with a loan/bond buyout of Frontier Communication…