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Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 11/25/2019

Oil and gas lending follows oil prices down The oil and gas industry is facing many challenges – recession fears, the ongoing trade war, regulatory shifts and excess global supply amid slowing growth in demand – all of which have curtailed any expectations of a meaningful increase in oil and gas prices. Oil prices have…

“The Best Place to Be” (First of a Series)

Earlier this month your correspondent traveled to Tokyo and Seoul, in part to assess how institutional investors view private debt there today. One highlight was serving on a panel at the Private Debt Investors Forum with several other experienced asset managers. The panel headline was “Global Debt Under the Microscope.” Andrew Hedlund, PDI’s top reporter…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 11/25/2019

175bps margins dominate recent wave of loan repricings Source: Debtwire Par The recent jump in repricing activity has been marked by loans repricing to the 175bps margin area. This is in sharp contrast to last year when loan repricings were often at much higher price points. So far in 4Q19, a whopping 80% of loan…

Private Debt Intelligence - 11/25/2019

UK-Based Private Debt The UK-based private debt fundraising market saw a record 2017, with 29 funds closed raising an aggregate of almost $29bn in capital. The previous record year seen was 2015 with 22 funds securing $19bn, and so far this year there have been 22 funds closed and $27bn of capital secured…. Subscribe to

The Pulse of Private Equity – 11/18/2019

Grading our predictions Download PitchBook’s Report here. Earlier this year, we published our 2019 Private Equity Outlook, our crystal ball analyst note where we took a crack at predicting trends in the year ahead. With 2019 wrapping up, we’ll be grading our predictions in an ACG webinar on December 17. We’ll provide the link in next…