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The Pulse of Private Equity - 10/16/2017

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Private Equity’s Amazon Problem Nordstrom, thought to be a prime buyout candidate, is now having trouble securing debt commitments for a would-be deal. It opted this week to wait until after the holiday season to assess any PE buyout, even with an investor waiting in the wings. Following the bankruptcy of Toys R Us, another…

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Lead Left Interview - Niels Bodenheim

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This week we chat with Niels Bodenheim, senior director of debt research for bfinance. bfinance is an investment consultant that specializes in the implementation of investment strategy, including fund manager research and selection, customized portfolio design, monitoring and fee analysis. Previously Niels was executive director at Mubadala GE Capital, the commercial finance joint venture owned…

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Private Debt Intelligence - 10/16/2017

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Private Debt Dry Powder Reaches New Record The capital available to be deployed by private debt fund managers has reached a new record in October 2017, peaking at $226bn. This is in part due to record fundraising in Q4 2016, followed by robust quarterly fundraising in 2017 so far – over the 12 months to…

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Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 10/9/2017

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Lender Survey: How are you feeling about portfolio performance? Issuers are showing flat to very slow growth but performance is stable, said 72% of the buyside and sellside respondents in TR LPC’s Quarter-End Survey. The remainder are split with 14% reporting that issuers are showing strong financial performance and growth has picked up while 14%…

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