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Business of Private Credit: Coming Home
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Loan Stats at a Glance - 2/29/2016
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Markit Recap – 2/22/2016
Last summer saw investors turn to shorting bond ETFs as the bond market kicked back to into life amid the…
Hard Floors
While their share of European leveraged loans has steadily dropped to 31%, banks are still about where they were pre-crisis.…
Lead Left Interview - Edwin Cass
This week we chat with Edwin Cass, Chief Investment Strategist, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Mr. Cass is responsible for…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 2/22/2016
How much longer will the M&A boom sustain PE exits? The M&A boom has been very kind to private equity…
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 2/22/2016
Despite significant market volatility, PE shops are moving full speed ahead on select mega deals in 2016. While the dataset…
Loan Stats at a Glance - 2/22/2016
Contact: Timothy Stubbs timothy.stubbs@spcapitaliq.com
Markit Recap – 2/15/2016
The shrinking of balance sheets has become a common theme in recent years, particularly in the financial sector. Investors are…
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 2/15/2016
Discounts on first-lien institutional term loans haven’t been this wide since 2011. The average original issue discount (OID) is 98.02…
A Review of European Direct Lending (First of a Series)
Over the years the US has been by far the dominant supplier of leveraged loans globally. (See our Chart of…
Tale of Two Markets
The volume of institutional leveraged loans in the US is over six times as large as that of Europe on…










A Review of European Direct Lending (Second of a Series)
Burger King isn’t just selling Whoppers any more. Last week the second largest burger giant began serving hot dogs at…