TheLeadLeft

Covenant Trends - 5/5/2025

Percentage of Loans with Asset Sale Sweep Step-downs (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview.com

PDI Picks – 5/5/2025

Defaults stay subdued for now The latest Proskauer study suggests loans are demonstrating impressive resilience but there should be no room for complacency. Defaults may not provide a conclusive picture of the amount of stress in the private credit universe but they’re still one of the best – and most commonly referenced – measurements that…

There’s a New Tariff in Town (First of Two Parts)

This week we look at questions from clients and friends surrounding the issue of tariffs. Not surprisingly, as we’ve discovered in our recent travels,  interest in the topic has accelerated (see our Chart of the Week).  The origin of the word is obscure. By one account, it derives from the Arabic “ta‘rif,” meaning “notification” or…

Letter from Down Under (First of Two Parts)

In our travels last month to Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney, we had over twenty meetings with clients and friends that included superannuation funds, wealth management firms, financial advisory and consultants, and private banks. As we discovered in other locales, private credit continues to gain in acceptance there as a valuable alternative to liquid assets, both […]

Debtwire Middle-Market – 4/28/2025

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 11.5% as of 28 April, down from  four-year peak  of 12.8% on 8 April) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development…