Add-ons vary by market Download PitchBook’s 2017 Annual US PE Middle Market Report click here. The buy-and-build model is popular in the PE industry. Investors’ appetite for add-ons stretches back about a decade, but most of the increase has taken place in the middle market, specifically at the lower end. Following the financial crisis, lower-…
Investment Consultant Outlook for 2018 There are currently 547 alternative investment consultants globally and of these, 41% provide private debt advisory services to their clients. In November 2017, Preqin conducted a survey of 36 consultants active in private debt to determine their sentiment with respect to the private debt industry…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a
Thomson Reuters financial unit sale marks the largest LBO financing since 2013 Tuesday’s announcement that Blackstone is buying a 55% stake in Thomson Reuters Financial and Risk business in a deal that values the unit at US$20bn makes it the largest LBO deal since 2013. That year saw buyout deals of US$28bn for HJ Heinz…
Software is eating private equity Download PitchBook’s Report click here. The typical hold time for portfolio companies is 5-7 years. As we’ve discussed with the retail sector and others, a lot can change these days in that amount of time. Investors can get caught flat-footed by rapid developments in consumer behavior, energy prices, new legislation,…
Private Debt Set to See Record Capital Distributions in 2017 Private debt has seen strong performance in recent years, which has driven the elevated levels of capital distributed back to investors. In fact, private debt funds returned 18.4% in the year to June 2017, and 10.9% in the five years to that point. When looking…
Eurozone periphery CDS rallies It’s that time of year again when plutocrats and power brokers meet in Davos for the World Economic Forum. In recent years this congregation of the great and the good has had to fend off accusations of being out of touch with ordinary people, perhaps not without reason…. Subscribe to Read
Strong investor demand for institutional loans help issuers flex terms in their favor Continued strong demand for institutional loans has carried into the New Year. Already there has been US$30bn in institutional loan issuance this year. While that is lower than the year-ago level of US$43bn, this year’s number includes more new money issuance. Of…
A once-in-a-decade fundraising market Download PitchBook’s Report click here. Private equity is a scalable asset class. The same isn’t true for every asset class in the private market – venture funds, for example, tend to lose effectiveness if they grow too large, regardless of sector. Not so with PE, which broadens its target range with…
Average Private Debt Fund Sizes Peak in 2017 2017 was a record fundraising year for the private debt industry, as 140 vehicles secured a total of $106bn from investors. The average size of funds rose to $843mn, continuing a trend seen over the past five years of vehicles becoming larger and larger. Average fund size…
U.S. new issue CLOs reached US$117bn in 2017 with an additional US$165bn in CLO refis and resets Although loan fund outflows have been more frequent since the fall, US$12.7bn flowed into mutual funds in 2017. Separate managed account money grew as pensions, endowments and family offices along with insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds allocated…