Challenging financing conditions and macroeconomic disruptions have ushered in a period of lackluster M&A activity the last few years. Sellers are reluctant to realize investments at what are perceived to be depressed valuation multiples. Buyers meanwhile are wary of overpaying and unwilling to meet sellers at multiples of a bygone era. The resulting valuation gap […]
Management fee rates vary by private debt strategy Read more in Preqin’s ‘Strategy in Focus: Challenges to Income Generation’ Interest rate cuts across major economies have slowed the growth of private debt, with GPs combatting fundraising headwinds by making concessions on fees and terms to secure capital…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in
TTM Default Volume, Count (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Eric Rosenthal eric.rosenthal@kbra.com
Launched Volume Source: LevFin Insights New-issue Yields Source: LevFin Insights Weekly Fund Flows Source: Lipper (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Robert Polenbergrobert.polenberg@levfininsights.com
Average Total Deleveraging Required To Meet RP Ratio Test (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview.com
Business Development Companies Outlook 2025 Click here to download report. Join Fitch for the upcoming Outlook panel: Private Corporate Credit, What to Expect in 2025. What to Watch The impact of heightened competition on middle-market deal terms and structures…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...
Healthcare, general manufacturing and services sectors see most loans added to non-accrual status in 3Q24 A total of US$980m of BDC loans were added to non-accrual status in 3Q24, down from US$2.1bn in the prior quarter…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...
Since 2020 the share of GPs raising larger funds has been growing. Source: PitchBook(Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)
We resume our discussion of the private equity liquidity crunch and its impact on fundraising, this time from the LP’s perspective. The supply/demand imbalance in the fundraising environment has shifted to favor LPs. This gives them greater GP access, longer diligence windows, and more negotiating power with LPA terms. But many LPs, their investment programs…
Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The blue line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (currently at 10.9% as of 2 December) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, are lenders to privately held middle-market businesses…