Despite our known deficiencies on the links, we were invited last week to a superb round of golf with other direct lending professionals at a course in Summit, NJ. ‘Superb’ because we walked away with ‘closest-to-the-pin’ honors. Though in fairness, 48 feet, eight inches is hardly close to anything. And we didn’t even make the…
The average price of a most-liquid broadly syndicated leveraged loan has been within a band most of the summer.
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This week commentary, we take a look at large sponsored financings led by direct lenders. After Ares underwrote Thoma Bravo’s $1 billion Qlik deal in 2016, market observers thought this might lead to a wave of similar mega-buyouts led by the non-banks. Private credit providers have raised record funds in a variety of vehicles, allowing […]
Top US CLO retail holdings Top retail loan holdings in active US CLOs at the end of July include Albertson’s TLB, Bass Pro Shops TL and EG Group TL, with US$2.1bn, US$1.9bn and US$1.7bn of total issuer loan volume respectively. While loan debt of several defaulted retail issuers is still held in active CLOs, their…
Our commentary at Aug 5 2019 deals with the first fed rate cuts in over a decade, and the latest round of tariffs on China. How much weight will this uncertainty bear on the credit markets? A lot depends on whether this latest trade volley will be softened or retracted down the road. Depending on […]
Tea leaves for multiples News this week about the yield inversion will probably have an effect on investor psyche. Inversions have historically predated recessions by as many as 24 months—that particular lag (2005-07) also included a significant rise in the S&P. In four of the last five years, the lag between inversion and the start…