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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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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 11/12/2018

    Contact: Marina Lukatsky marina.lukatsky@spglobal.com

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    Stat of the Week: Middle Market* Purchase Price Multiple

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    Select Deals in the Market - 11/5/2018

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    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…

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    How low in Ebitda have you seen for covenant-lite transactions?

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    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…

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    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…

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    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.…

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    Tranche Dressing

    Data suggests that loan recoveries are both facility and structure dependant.

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    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…

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    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…

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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 11/5/2018

    Contact: Marina Lukatsky marina.lukatsky@spglobal.com

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    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…

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    PE Investors: What is the most important criteria when choosing your financing partners?

    Compare to a similar question we asked direct lenders last week…

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    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…

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    Select Deals in the Market - 10/29/2018

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