North America-Focused Fundraising Falls Sharply in 2016 North America has long been the epicentre of the private debt market, with the largest proportion of fund managers and investors based in the region, and by far the largest proportion of capital raised being focused on investment opportunities there. This reflects the size… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready
Liquidity and Credit Appetite/ Middle Market Pricing and Leverage/ BDCs and Middle Market CLOs/ 2016 Predictions and Trends
This week we continue our conversation with Paul Peterson, a managing director at Wind Point Partners. Wind Point Partners is a private equity investment firm that with a strategic focus on facilitating leadership transitions by partnering with top caliber executives to acquire middle market businesses with a clear path to value creation. Since its founding in…
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Contact: Timothy Stubbs timothy.stubbs@spglobal.com
Banks vs. the Non-Banks/ Hurdles: Legal, Cultural, and Logistical/ Opportunities and Challenges/ A Path to Success/ Outlook for 2016…and Beyond
The Bank of England doesn’t often follow the ECB. During the financial crisis and its aftermath, the Bank was relatively quick to cut interest rates and implement QE. The ECB was still hiking rates in July 2008, and didn’t start QE until 2015. But the eurozone’s central bank could lay claim to beating its UK…
Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview.com
Call it an ironic twist. An actor named David Harbour, portraying Achilles in Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” in Central Park last week, ruptured his Achilles tendon in a fight scene. Mr. Harbour later tweeted, “I’m so method.” No word whether critics considered his final performance a stretch. Speaking of drama, the Fed elected not to…