Commentary
The OG of Private Credit: Welcome to the Platinum Era™
”This is great for us.” That’s how one private credit manager summarized the cumulative impact of noise around the asset class.
Read MoreThe OG of Private Credit: The Steadi-Cam of Capital Markets
“We are late in the credit cycle.” What is often a throw-away line preceding some dire market prediction, should be questioned.
Read MoreThe OG of Private Credit: Conjuring a Crisis
According to Merriam-Webster, apophenia, or mistaken pattern recognition, is “the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things.”
Read MoreThe OG of Private Credit: The Dot Calm
For over a decade, software has been the darling of investors. The reasons were evident long before the pandemic made the sector impossible to ignore.
Read MoreThe OG of Private Credit: Par for the Course
What is a loan worth? At its core, a loan’s value is driven by two forces: credit risk (the likelihood the borrower repays) and market risk…
Read MoreThe OG of Private Credit: By Default
Beyond structural pressures, liquidity mismatches, and conflation with large cap strategies, the most fundamental question for any credit investor: What is the actual risk of losing money?
Read MoreThe OG of Private Credit: The Liquidity Mirage
The word “private” in private credit signifies not just “non-public,” but “non-traded.”
Read MoreThe OG of Private Credit: You Are What You Eat
In private credit, the character of your deal sourcing determines the destiny of your portfolio.
Read MoreThe OG of Private Credit: (Smaller) Size Matters
As we highlighted last week, the zero-rate period post-GFC allowed private equity firms to buy companies with higher leverage and sell them at higher multiples.
Read MoreThe OG of Private Credit: How We Got Here
According to iCapital, private credit refers to “tailored financing options – typically loans – that are directly made to strategically identified companies by non-bank lenders.
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