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Private Credit Myths: Introduction

A Dartmouth College professor has found that middle age is even more depressing than we thought. But things start looking up pretty quickly after that. In a recently published study, David Blanchflower found unhappiness is a U-shaped curve, bottoming out when people are 47.2 years old. But after that, people start feeling better. By the […]

Top Ten Myths About Private Credit (Second of a Series)

Responding to last week’s discussion of the relationship between age and happiness [link], several readers asked what country has the happiest residents? According to the World Happiness Report [link], Finland topped the list of 156 countries. The US was 19th, and South Sudan as the least cheerful place to live. Finland is perhaps a surprising…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 1/27/2020

New money share of institutional loan issuance dips to recent low Source: Debtwire Par The institutional leveraged loan market is off to a busy start in 2020, with USD 58bn of deals having priced and another USD 79bn in the pipeline. Notably, only USD 10bn, or roughly 17%, of loans issued this year have been…