The Bank of England has projected the COVID-19 pandemic will cause GDP for the UK to decline 14% this year. That’s the worst economic performance in three centuries. In 1706 (when the Bank of England was twelve years old) Great Britain was a very different place: devastated by wars and weather, the union with Scotland […]
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Percentage of Loans with Asset Sale Sweep Step-downs Contact: Steven Miller
Fund Managers Response to COVID-19 Although fundraising is slowing in the wake of the economic fallout from COVID-19, most alternatives fund managers appear to be staying the course. From a survey conducted by Preqin to fund managers, three-quarters said that they do not plan to change their investment strategy for any active funds as a…
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…
Will coronavirus prompt a new wave of distress? One of the long-term impacts of the global financial crisis was a sharp uptick in non-performing loans as lax underwriting standards prior to the crisis and the global recession that followed created a perfect storm where over-levered borrowers were unable to repay their debts…. Subscribe to Read