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Debtwire Middle-Market – 5/22/2017

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 comprises…

The Pulse of Private Equity - 5/22/2017

Finishing strong View PitchBook’s 2017 Global PE & VC Fund Benchmarking Report: Part II Here In the prior installment of the Pulse of Private Equity, we discussed how the cyclicality of the PE industry was coming to bear, as the momentum and speed with which more recent fund vintages could return money to their investors…

Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 5/15/2017

BDC performance wavers in May on the back of mixed earnings The upward march of BDC share prices in 2017 seems to have come to a halt in May on the back of mixed earnings announcements for 1Q17. Rising non-accruals, earnings misses, heavy prepayments, declining yields, tough market conditions and extreme competition are all… Subscribe