LPs going on the defensive Senior debt continues to be popular even as many investors have fleshed out their private credit exposure via their handful of favourite direct lenders. The proportion of senior debt capital raised in the first six months of 2018 hit a four-year high, according to PDI data, signifying a greater willingness…
Single-tranche senior debt financing volume and deal size rose sharply last quarter as direct lenders found traction with one-stop solutions.
Distressed Debt Sees Strong Performance Distressed debt has seen strong success, particularly in Q2 2018: the strategy led private debt fundraising during the quarter and the majority (60%) of investors tracked by Preqin are planning to seek out distressed debt vehicles over the next 12 months. The fund type has also seen favourable returns, even…
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Review of Current Market Conditions/ Analysis of Capital Markets Metrics/ Review of Credit Quality/ Outlook for Third Quarter 2018
Every now and then stuff happens in leveraged lending that reassures us things we’ve learned about the market are actually true. Such was the case last Friday when a big bank credit trading desk noted unusual data on retail loan fund flows. Weekly outflows of $3.5 billion had been reported. That would have been a…
This week we continue our conversation with Jessica Reiss, the head of leveraged loan research at Covenant Review. Also joining the conversation is Kerry Kantin, a managing director covering leveraged loans at sister company LevFin Insights. Begun in 2006, Covenant Review is the world’s first boutique research firm focused on bond and loan covenants. LevFin…
Investors Take Notice of Distressed Debt Preqin currently tracks more than 3,300 private debt investors globally. The majority (55%) of these investors are based in North America. A further 25% are based in Europe and 14% are based in the Asia-Pacific region. The 10 largest investors allocate a total of $66bn to the private debt…
The news wires are full of headlines around Trump, trade wars and Brexit. A mercantilist USA and a UK government clinging on by its fingertips are not conducive to positive market sentiment. Yet spreads appear unaffected by the political chaos; spreads have tightened, rather than widened. The Markit iTraxx Europe is trading at 65bps, a…
US-based managers dominate fundraising Many of the behemoth alternative asset managers are based in America and have raised some of the largest funds this year. For all that’s said about the rise of private debt in Europe and Asia, managers headquartered in the US ruled fundraising in the first six months of the year, according…