US leveraged loan and HY bond returns bounce back in December Leveraged loans posted their worst month of post-pandemic returns in November, at -0.16%, according to the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index, while US high-yield bond returns slumped 1.02%, their second consecutive month of negative returns, according to the ICE BofA US HY Index…. Subscribe to
Quantifying the recovery Download PitchBook’s Report here. It’s no secret that private equity is having a big year. A new PitchBook Quantitative Perspectives report, US PE: Recovery and Beyond, helps put this year into historical context. The past few quarters have been such a pronounced recovery that deal volume is now well above the 20-year, long-term…
Distressed Debt Volatility Doesn’t Hamper Closing Large Funds Distressed debt returns have been volatile over the past 10 years, with median net IRRs moving between 6.3% and 14.6%. This gives the strategy a median net IRR of 8.62% over 2009 to 2018 (the most recent vintage for which return data is meaningful), very similar to…
Five steps forward to a more responsible future The global pandemic has been the hot topic of the last couple of years, but ESG is pushing hard to take centre stage. In our recent Responsible Investing report, Private Debt Investor considered the ways in which private debt is being transformed by the necessities of a…
Total assets in BDCs climb to over US$180bn Total assets in BDCs climbed to over US$180bn in 3Q21, as publicly traded BDC assets increased to US$111bn, up from US$104bn in the prior quarter. In the same period, private/unlisted BDC assets grew to US$70bn from US$57bn. On the private side, Blackstone Private Credit Fund led the…
A very healthy infrastructure market Download PitchBook’s Report here. Global infrastructure fundraising remains an in-demand category for LPs, according to PitchBook’s latest Global Real Assets Report. Through three quarters, about $73.3 billion has been raised in the strategy, in line with annual totals going back to 2014. The amount of new funds is way down, with…
Direct Lending vs. Distressed Debt Over time, direct lending has slowly taken over from distressed debt as private debt’s largest strategy. At the end of 2016, direct lending had AUM of $156bn compared to distressed debt’s $185bn. But since then, direct lending has grown steadily to $452bn while distressed debt had grown more slowly, hitting…
The year our manager ranking doubled in size As we moved from 50 fundraisers to 100 in our annual ranking, investor appetite for private debt has soared to new record levels. This year, we published the PDI 100 ranking of private debt’s top fundraisers over a five-year period. Having started with the PDI 30, we…
Is infrastructure poised for a resurgence? Download PitchBook’s Report here. Infrastructure is much in the news these days, given the massive spending bill currently being legislated in the US government, as well as even more earmarks being discussed worldwide by other nations. The potential implications of such significant investment in infrastructure, particularly in digital and energy,…
Including direct lending loans, 2021 US LBO volume is at an all-time high When including direct lending deals, US LBO loan volume has reached an all-time high this year. Year-to-date through November 22, there has been US$194bn in syndicated US LBO volume and US$34bn of middle market direct lending LBO volume (direct lending data as…