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Covenant Trends - 11/11/2024

Accordion Inside Maturity (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview.com

Middle Market & Private Credit – 11/11/2024

Fitch’s Privately Monitored Middle Market Portfolio Overview − 3Q24 (Part 2) Click here to download report. In the charts above, Fitch presents aggregate data for Middle Market companies that it privately rates on a monitored basis for asset managers, defined as:… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...

The Pulse of Private Equity – 11/11/2024

PE-backed healthcare services company count by subsegment and hold time Download PitchBook’s Report here. We expect to see three things happen in physician practice management companies (PPMs) in the next year or so. First, a few large platforms have traded recently, and a few more are close to the finish line…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log

Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 11/11/2024

Resilient secondary loans, light primary calendar carry repricing trade through October The share of institutional term loans trading above par averaged 33% in October, advancing atop 31% in August and 32% in September. And secondary loans have traded nowhere but up through the first two weeks of November, with par-plus loans now accounting for 43%…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 11/11/2024

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 11.2% as of 7 November) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, are lenders to privately held middle-market businesses…

Middle Market & Private Credit – 11/4/2024

Fitch’s Privately Monitored Middle Market Portfolio Overview − 3Q24 (Part 1) Click here to download report. In the charts above, Fitch presents aggregate data for Middle Market companies that it privately rates on a monitored basis for asset managers, defined as:… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...

Everything Happens So Much (Part Two)

What are the biggest surprises for investors this year? Our informal polling among top credit managers produced five answers. First, muted M&A activity, despite improved conditions for financing. Second, is the strength of the economy. Though rates have been high compared the zero-gravity era that ended in 2022, consumers keep spending and companies keep hiring. […]

Private Debt Intelligence - 11/4/2024

Investor appetite for private debt funds continues to grows Read more in: Private Debt Q3 2024: Preqin Quarterly Update Private debt fundraising value is on the recovery path this year. The $50.5bn raised in the third quarter of 2024 is the highest quarter so far this year, and more than double the $24.3bn raised in…

The Pulse of Private Equity – 11/4/2024

Platform LBO and growth equity deals as a share of all PE deals Download PitchBook’s Report here. In Q1 2023, growth equity deal count overtook platform LBO deal count for the first time ever, and that trend has persisted since…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...