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Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 10/16/2017

Strong investor appetite supports institutional issuance but tougher credits command better terms Despite robust market technicals including two weeks of retail fund inflows and a steady CLO pipeline, institutional lenders are reconciling strong demand for assets with discipline around credit quality. Roughly $34Bn of institutional loan volume has come to market early in 4Q17 and…

The Pulse of Private Equity - 10/16/2017

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…

Private Debt Intelligence - 10/16/2017

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…

Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 10/9/2017

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%…

The Pulse of Private Equity - 10/9/2017

The PE exit crunch Download Report Here Last week we highlighted the climb in equity contributions in recent years. Relative to debt contributions, equity now makes up 57% of EV year-to-date, a significant percentage that will likely water down future fund returns. A second trend bears mentioning as it relates to returns, highlighted in our upcoming…

Private Debt Intelligence - 10/9/2017

Private Debt Fundraising in Q3 by Fund Type In Q3 2017, 25 private debt funds closed, securing an aggregate $20bn in capital. Of these, direct lending represented the largest proportion of private debt fundraising, with 10 direct lending funds securing an aggregate $6.7bn. This is a decrease from last quarter when 14 direct lending funds…

Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 10/2/2017

1-3Q17 Leveraged loan volume sets new record at $994Bn Amid the traditional summer lull, US syndicated loan issuance slowed meaningfully in 3Q17 to push less than $475B through the market and boosting US totals to $1.75T for the first nine months of the year (and additional US$42B of clubbed loans have also been completed so…

Private Debt Intelligence - 10/2/2017

Asia-Focused Private Debt Fundraising Picks Up in Q3 2017 Private debt fundraising saw continued momentum in Q3 2017, with 25 funds reaching a final close and securing a total of $20bn in investor commitments. This is largely on par with fundraising activity seen in Q2 when 32 funds closed and raised a little under $20bn….

The Pulse of Private Equity - 10/2/2017

Less debt today, lower returns tomorrow? Download PitchBook’s 2017 Global PE Deal Multiples Report: III Here According to our just-released 3Q Deal Terms Survey results, average equity contributions have climbed to 57% of EV year-to-date. That’s the highest percentage in our dataset, which includes survey results dating back to 2012. Whenever we release these datapoints, we caution…

Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 9/25/2017

Lender Survey: Are the structural characteristics of loans changing for good? Just over half of the audience gathered during Thomson Reuters LPC’s 23rd Annual Loan & CLO Conference said that structures have not changed for good but rather the pendulum will swing back when credit quality deteriorates. However, just over one fifth disagreed, reporting that…