Puerto Rico credit risks largely isolated Puerto Rico’s unsustainable debt problems have intensified this week, but the wider municipal bond market has so far remained resilient. Puerto Rico’s 2035 general obligation bond has seen its price drop from 77 on Friday June 26th to 66.2 on June 30th… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log
Multiples are having an impact, and that’s a good thing Global private equity activity was down in H1, by several metrics. Compared to H1 2014, deal flow declined 16% by count and 21% by total value, to 2,728 deals worth $404.7 billion. Last year’s numbers were 3,265 deals worth a combined $514.7 billion…. Subscribe to Read
The institutional pipeline has ballooned in recent weeks on the back of several sizeable M&A deals. Last week, the calendar reached almost $80 billion, which is the highest level since February 2013. The driver of the jump is mostly two jumbo sized M&A deals for Charter… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...
It has been said that Greece’s influence within the eurozone seems to outweigh its relatively diminutive size. After all, its GDP is less than 2% of the total in the currency bloc (2014, current prices). But it is not just in politics that Greece punches above its weight. The performance of the credit markets… Subscribe to
If it seems like the PE market is getting crowded, it’s been that way for a while. The number of active global PE firms, defined here as having raised a fund in the prior five years or completing a deal in the prior three, has been on an almost-uninterrupted increase since 2000. From 1,453 active firms…
Halfway through 2015 and Leveraged Lending Guidance continues to keep leverage levels under control on buyout deals. The share of deals with leverage of seven times or greater has plummeted in 1H15 to only 5.7% from 26% last year. The share of deals levered greater than 7 times peaked in 2007 at almost 40%…. Subscribe to
There are many words synonymous with the European sovereign debt crisis, the portmanteau ‘Grexit’ being the most in vogue. But a word that was thought to have been banished by the ECB – contagion – has returned to the discourse this week. Spreads in Italy, Spain and Portugal – the peripheral countries most exposed to…
Valuations met with a shrug High valuations have become a headache in the PE industry, not only for the firms themselves but also their own LP investors. Overpaying today leads to under-reaping tomorrow. Even so, deal activity… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...
Loan mutual fund & ETF assets under management edged higher to just over $139 billion in May as these funds registered a second consecutive month of inflows as expectations around higher interest rates once again came to the fore. Despite the combined inflows of $646 million in April and May,… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a
Macro themes continue to dominate fixed income markets, but investors shouldn’t lose sight of the idiosyncratic stories that are unfolding in the background. New Look, a British high street retailer, saw its spreads tighten dramatically this week after it announced a refinancing that should improve its credit profile. The company was bought… Subscribe to Read