Covenant Trends – 5/18/2020
Percentage of Loans with Asset Sale Sweep Step-downs Contact: Steven Miller
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Private Debt Intelligence – 5/18/2020
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…
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Debtwire Middle-Market – 5/18/2020
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…
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PDI Picks – 5/18/2020
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
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Loan Stats at a Glance – 5/18/2020
Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis – 5/11/2020
Pricing, OIDs also widen for double B issuers in today’s market Pricing for double-B rated issuers has widened significantly this quarter. The average yield, assuming a three-year term to repayment, on first-lien institutional term loans for BB rated issuers is 6.19% so far this quarter, up from a much lower average of 3.94% in 1Q20….
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The Pulse of Private Equity – 5/11/2020
The consolidation question Download PitchBook’s Report here. If the current downturn mimics the 2008 financial crisis, private equity may see a few years of industry consolidation before diversifying again. In 2007, on the eve of the GFC, firms with at least $10B in AUM accounted for about 41.1% of the industry’s capital…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready
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Direct Lending….After COVID-19
As we wrap up our COVID series, we turn our attention to the path ahead, as unclear as that is. Or as one economist put it succinctly: “Anyone who thinks we’re going to keep moving up in a straight line is living in La-La Land.” The good news is markets have fully absorbed the shock […]
Debtwire Middle-Market – 5/11/2020
High-yield bond market comes roaring back in April Source: Debtwire Par The US high yield market came roaring back to life in April with roughly USD 40.6bn in issuance across 51 deals, easily the most active month this year, and a far cry from the USD 5.3bn issuance seen in March when much of the…
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