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Business of Private Credit: Coming Home

Much attention has been paid to the suitability of Matt Damon in the lead role as the wily Odysseus in this summer’s Christopher Nolan blockbuster.

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    Driving Range

    The average price of a most-liquid broadly syndicated leveraged loan has been within a band most of the summer.

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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 9/2/2019

    Contact: Marina Lukatsky marina.lukatsky@spglobal.com

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    Direct Lenders: The New Big Loan Arrangers

    This week commentary, we take a look at large sponsored financings led by direct lenders. After Ares underwrote Thoma Bravo’s…

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    Top US CLO retail holdings

    Top retail loan holdings in active US CLOs at the end of July include Albertson’s TLB, Bass Pro Shops TL…

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    Stat of the Week: Starting Salaries by Discipline*

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    An All-Weather Asset Class: Private Debt Managers Invest Amid Rate and Tariff Uncertainties

    Our commentary at Aug 5 2019 deals with the first fed rate cuts in over a decade, and the latest…

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    Which soft skill is most important today when hiring an investment professional?

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    Select Deals in the Market - 8/12/2019

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    Tea leaves for multiples

    News this week about the yield inversion will probably have an effect on investor psyche. Inversions have historically predated recessions…

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    Private Debt Intelligence - 8/12/2019

    Private Debt Industry Puts Capital to Work [wpdm_package id=’27348′] The private debt industry has seen the growth in its AUM…

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    A PE fundraising lag is no cause for alarm

    Private equity had abnormally strong 2017 fundraising numbers, potentially depressing fundraising in the first half of the year. If capital…

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    Synergies & Cost Savings EBITDA Addbacks

    Contact: Steven Miller

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    Direct to Consumer

    We mentioned last week Apollo’s $1.8 billion financing for New Media Investment Group’s acquisition of Gannett & Co. It seemed…

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    Larger Than Life

    The number of leveraged loans for buyouts over $1 billion has grown steadily since the Great Recession.

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    Industrial & Chemicals sector takes top spot in institutional loan & HY bond issuance

    Source: Debtwire Par The industrial & chemicals sector is the most active industry year-to-date in terms of both institutional loan…

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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 8/12/2019

    Contact: Marina Lukatsky marina.lukatsky@spglobal.com

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