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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.
Loan Stats at a Glance - 11/12/2018
Contact: Marina Lukatsky marina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
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…
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…
Loan issuance shifts towards the riskier end of market
Source: Debtwire Par The ratings profile of institutional loans has shifted more towards the riskier end of the market this…
Tranche Dressing
Data suggests that loan recoveries are both facility and structure dependant.
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…
Private Debt Intelligence - 11/5/2018
What Does the Future Hold for Private Debt? [wpdm_package id=’21206′] As it launches its Future of Alternatives report, Preqin has…
Loan Stats at a Glance - 11/5/2018
Contact: Marina Lukatsky marina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
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…
PE Investors: What is the most important criteria when choosing your financing partners?
Compare to a similar question we asked direct lenders last week…
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…








Search and Recovery (Second of a series)
News reached us from Harvard’s Astrophysics Center of an interstellar object of unknown origin spotted passing through our solar system.…