M&A transactions increasingly funded with add-on debt Source: Dealogic, Debtwire Par Issuers have been tapping the institutional loan market for add-on debt at a rapid pace, blowing past the previous five years in add-on volume with the month of December still to come. Record levels of add-on loan issuacne in September (USD 13.5bn) followed by…
At recent private credit conferences we’ve been asked how managers think about portfolio construction. The answer depends on your experience over the past twenty-two months. Covid clearly threw a wrench in investors’ business assumptions. As one private equity partner told us, “we had a base case and a down-side case, but we didn’t have a…
Much improved operating performance has driven down loan leverage metrics.
Direct Lending vs. Distressed Debt Over time, direct lending has slowly taken over from distressed debt as private debt’s largest strategy. At the end of 2016, direct lending had AUM of $156bn compared to distressed debt’s $185bn. But since then, direct lending has grown steadily to $452bn while distressed debt had grown more slowly, hitting…
Rolling Tallies of MFN Sunsets (LevFin Insights) (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller
The year our manager ranking doubled in size As we moved from 50 fundraisers to 100 in our annual ranking, investor appetite for private debt has soared to new record levels. This year, we published the PDI 100 ranking of private debt’s top fundraisers over a five-year period. Having started with the PDI 30, we…
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As investment managers run through the tape towards an incredibly productive 2021, many are asking what will the new year bring? No one could have foreseen a year ago vaccine success, or the 25% equities run-up. But we have have seen remarkable private credit performance over the past 24 months, so let’s highlight some key […]