Credit managers should embrace transparency Fund transparency should become a key part of the asset class as it continues its maturation. It’s no secret alternative assets are among the most expensive investment strategies. Of course, private credit, private equity and the like require a much more staffing-intensive effort than passive investment vehicles may need, and…
Strong Private Debt Performance Pushes Dry Powder to Record Highs Distressed debt has outperformed the other private debt strategies examined over the one-year horizon to December 2017, generating returns of 11%. Direct lending, however, has been the strongest strategy over the three- and five-year horizons, generating returns of 9.6% for the three years to December…
First-closing fee discounts can set GPs apart A surprising number of private markets managers don’t offer a break to their funds’ earliest investors. Private fund managers seem reticent to offer early-bird management fee discounts, according to two new surveys, closing a potential avenue to differentiate themselves as fundraising slows down. Private Debt Investor sister publication…
After a tumultuous October, BDC price/NAV turns back up amid favorable earnings BDC share prices are back on the mend this month amid favorable 3Q18 earnings following an extremely volatilie October which wiped out price based returns for many. After going into negative territory in October, the Wells Fargo BDC Index is recovering lost ground…
The chart that never goes down Download PitchBook’s Report here. Between 2004 and 2008—considered by many to be the boom days of private equity—PE’s combined company inventory climbed 74% in the United States. Over the span of five years, in other words, the number of companies under PE control came fairly close to doubling. That was…
What Does the Future Hold for Private Debt? As it launches its Future of Alternatives report, Preqin has polled fund managers and investors to calculate predictions for the future of the industry in the next five years. The alternative assets industry is set to expand across all asset classes, with the private debt market set…
Downward price flexes increase for third consecutive month Despite the volatility in the equity markets and a recent softening in loan trading levels, the demand for institutional loans in the primary market was at full throttle in October. Investor appetite was evident in price flex activity. In October, there were 23 downward price revisions on…
Can today’s multiples withstand a downturn? Download PitchBook’s Report here. Middle-market purchase price multiples have nearly doubled since 2009. To be sure, most metrics and indicators have bounced back substantially from the crisis, and private equity is no exception. PE valuations have risen moderately from year to year, sometimes in fits and starts, and now stand…
What Are Private Debt Investors Up to? A significant majority (60%) of investor searches issued in Q3 2018 for new private debt fund commitments in the next 12 months were for mezzanine funds, up from 45% of searches in Q3 2017. In fact, there has been an uptick in interest across all strategies, an indication…
Turning a blind eye? In Europe, talk of battening down the hatches for a change in circumstances seems at odds with a lack of appetite for European distressed strategies. “The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.” Turnaround specialist Richard Thomson of RLT Advisory reached for this striking Chinese proverb when…