“Anytime loan market technicals shift, there’s always a view that CLOs are the end of Western civilization as we know it.” So a top CLO manager related his experience over several decades. Regardless of actual historical performance, collateralized loan obligations are periodically hauled out by the media, excoriated for reckless behavior, and dismissed as just another…
Formation of new collateralized loan obligations slowed last year, but picked up in 2021.
PE firms tap abundant liquidity, yet LBO loan deal flow struggles to meet demand Source: Debtwire Par Financial sponsors have been very busy this year, taking advantage of borrower-friendly market conditions to tap the debt markets at a rapid pace. Sponsor-backed syndicated leveraged loan issuance has already hit a quarterly record of USD 181bn, as…
Senior debt, the investor choice LPs appear to be happy taking their place at the top of the capital structure, but should not assume every manager’s approach is the same. “An all-weather strategy”. That’s how one of the panellists on an LP panel at Private Debt Investor’s Investor Day this week described senior debt. The…
Investor Views on the Fund Types Presenting the Best Opportunities in Private Debt Investors believe the best opportunities in private debt are in distressed and special situations funds. More than half (56%) of surveyed investors are backing distressed debt, up 16 percentage points on the previous year, while 48% see the most promise in special…
Distribution of Accordion F&C Tranche EBITDA Grower Caps (L3M) (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller
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US CLO secondary loan bids trend higher than pre-pandemic levels Positive fiscal and monetary stimulus news coupled with improving vaccine distribution and availability continued to bolster the financial markets and have led to a robust recovery in secondary loan bids in 2021. The average bids of loans held in US CLOs moved higher this February…
Fran Beyers, Cliffwater’s Head of Capital Markets, Dan Lee, Partner of Comvest, and Randy Schwimmer, Churchill’s Co-Head of Senior Lending discussed what are their biggest fears and surprises in the height of the pandemic and the economic outlook for 2021. ▶︎ Watch the full version interview from Opus Connect Webinar: here
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