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Covenant Trends - 3/24/2025

Percentage of Loans with F&C Tranche Growers (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview.com

Private Credit in a Post-Rate World (First of a Series)

When you’re successful, everyone wants a piece of you. That’s the challenge private credit faces today. It’s grown from a small, largely ignored corner of leveraged loans called the middle market two decades ago to an asset class rivaling both broadly syndicated loans and high-yield bonds. And now private credit is drawing attention from sophisticated […]

Debtwire Middle-Market – 3/17/2025

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The blue line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (currently at 11% as of 17 March) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, are lenders to privately held middle-market businesses…