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Business of Private Credit: Safety, Not Size
Even the best credit managers have loans that go bad. What separates them from everyone else is the history and experience they bring to working these problems out.
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August 5, 2026 
New money leveraged loans have a stronger showing in 3Q24
After a slow start to the year, leveraged issuers are increasingly tapping lenders for new and/or incremental loan capacity.
Percentage of New Issue First Lien Loans that Cleared with a J. Crew Trapdoor
(Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)
Waiting for the specialty wave
There are reasons why you might expect esoteric strategies to garner more investor dollars, but it may not be straightforward.…
Platform LBO and growth equity as a share of all PE deals
Download PitchBook’s Report here. In the second quarter of 2024, add-on transactions accounted for a significant 77.4% of all PE buyouts,…
Fitch’s Privately Monitored Middle Market Portfolio Overview, 2Q24
Click here to download report. In the charts that follow, Fitch presents aggregate data for MM companies, defined as in…
Loan Stats at a Glance - 9/3/2024
Source: PitchBook LCDContact: Ryan Brownryan.brown@pitchbook.com
CLO Awakening (Second of Two Parts)
From a risk perspective, CLO defaults are rare; no AAA tranche in either US or European CLOs has ever defaulted.…
Fitch’s Privately Monitored Middle Market Portfolio Overview, 2Q24
Click here to download report. In the charts that follow, Fitch presents aggregate data for MM companies, defined as in…
Private Debt Intelligence - 8/12/2024
Private debt fundraising recovers toward trend Read more in Preqin’s Insights+ Report: Investor Outlook: H2 2024 Half of LPs surveyed…
Average Minimum Day-One Capped Basket Capacity
(Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)
Quarterly rolling one-year PE fund performance by size
Download PitchBook’s Report here. Breaking down the data by fund sizes, middle-market buyout funds have outperformed megafunds for six consecutive quarters.
Institutional loans calendar slows in August amid traditional summer holidays but ahead of year ago-levels
At just under US$31bn, the US institutional loans calendar edged down modestly in early August (from US$34.4bn) as lender and…
Big and getting bigger: insurance in private credit
Insurance companies are some of the biggest allocators to private credit already, but there is still a lot of room…
High Yield, Low Vol
Amid last week’s turmoil in public equities, loan and bond returns thrived. Source: The Daily Shot(Past performance is no guarantee…
Why So Sensitive?
For some months the performance of public markets, both fixed income and equities, brooked few doubters. As one strategist put…
Back to School
Someone once said, “A vacation is what you take when you no longer can take what you’ve been taking.” We…