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Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 12/10/2018

Loan bids continue to decline amidst broader market volatility LPC’s most liquid 100 loans cohort traded down again yesterday to 96.15, its lowest level since March 2016. The volatility in the broader market has bled into the syndicated loans market. Loan investors have reacted by yanking roughly US$5.6bn from retail loan funds since the last…

PDI Picks – 12/10/2018

Today’s deal structuring affects private debt’s future Cov-lite, cov-wide or cov-regular, credit managers are making the bed they’ll have to lie in. The private debt deal market is red hot: there is cash aplenty, more lenders than there are deals, egregious EBITDA addbacks – and investors are taking note…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member?

The Price of Everything (Second of a Series)

Loan prices for the most liquid leveraged names continued to drift lower this week in the wake of continued volatility in the public markets. This despite – or perhaps because of – a Goldilocks-flavored jobs report last Friday. Labor data showed 155k in new jobs for November. Not great, but enough to help ease worries…

Private Debt Intelligence - 12/10/2018

Private Debt Industry in Europe Reaches $200bn in Assets Europe has been a key area of interest for investors in private debt in the past year. Of the private debt investors surveyed by Preqin in June 2018, 47% view Europe as presenting the best opportunities – the largest proportion of any region. Additionally, the number…