Issuer-friendly flex adjustments dominate US institutional loan market in January Flex activity in the US institutional loan market has been extremely friendly towards issuers this month. Refinitiv LPC’s Flex Factor has tracked 20 flexed deals so far in January, all of which have skewed in favor of issuers. This has led to a Flex Factor…
What is a private capital fund worth? Download PitchBook’s Report here. Valuing PE management companies can be extremely difficult, but the rise of GP stakes investing is making the task more common. In recent years, many GPs have been valued predominantly on cash flows, management fees and accrued performance fees…. Login to Read More...
Private Debt Investing for the Long Haul Investors in private debt are generally satisfied with the performance of their portfolios. Eighty-nine percent of those we surveyed by Preqin in November 2019 said private debt performance had either met or exceeded their expectations over 2019… Login to Read More...
ABL draws significant LP interest Asset-backed lending is one of the credit strategies more investors are becoming attuned to. There could be another credit strategy set to pick up traction, according to PDI Perspectives 2020, our annual LP survey…. Login to Read More...
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A Dartmouth College professor has found that middle age is even more depressing than we thought. But things start looking up pretty quickly after that. In a recently published study, David Blanchflower found unhappiness is a U-shaped curve, bottoming out when people are 47.2 years old. But after that, people start feeling better. By the […]
Responding to last week’s discussion of the relationship between age and happiness [link], several readers asked what country has the happiest residents? According to the World Happiness Report [link], Finland topped the list of 156 countries. The US was 19th, and South Sudan as the least cheerful place to live. Finland is perhaps a surprising…