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PDF | Research | Week of Dec 16 2024

Quote of the Week

“They may go on hold after December.”

– Brian Levitt, global market strategist, Invesco. 

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Private Equity Now – Portfolio Positioning (LP Perspective)

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We conclude our series on the Private Equity liquidity crunch with this question: What do scarce realizations mean for LPs constructing a portfolio in today’s environment? Having reviewed tactical tools and strategies available to investors to find liquidity, deploy capital, and select managers, we turn to building a sound and profitable portfolio. 


Every limited partner is unique, but they have commonalities when it comes to assembling a long-term PE portfolio for the long-term. Consistency, balance, and matched goals and outcomes are always important. But what happens to that portfolio in a capital-constrained world with depleted cash in-flows?


✒️ From the Editor: The Lead Left will be on break until the week of January 6th. To all of our readers, best wishes for a safe, healthy and restful holiday season.


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Chart of the Week

Interest Bearing Accounts

After three flat-to-down years, LP’s look to be gearing up for 2025.

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Source: Private Equity International's LP Perspectives 2025 Study

(Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)

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PDI Picks

Private debt’s emerging manager problem

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New GPs face a tough task to attract investor interest, but there are ways of maximising prospects.

It feels somewhat Scrooge-like to point it out at this time of year but, for emerging managers, goodwill appears to be in short supply. In our LP Perspectives study – to be published early next year – we found 73 percent of investors saying they would not consider backing emerging managers in the next 12 months...

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Contact: Andy Thomson / Private Debt Investor

Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis

CLOs ramp to new heights in '24, new issuance tops US$186bn thanks to bustling November

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US CLO new issuance totaled US$25.2bn across 54 vehicles in November, marking the busiest month of the year and the second highest monthly tally on record for the asset class...

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Contact: Chris Piccirillo / LSEG

The Pulse of Private Equity

Oil & gas fundraising activity

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Of the six oil & gas funds to close through Q3, three funds raised over $500 million...

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Contact: Garrett Black / PitchBook

KBRA Direct Lending Deals: News & Analysis

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TTM Default Volume, Count

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Contact: Eric Rosenthal / KBRA DLD

Middle Market & Private Credit

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NAIC Report Puts Smaller CRA Ratings Under the Spotlight

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At end-2023, US insurers held about USD350 billion of privately rated securities...

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Contact: Brad Hamner / FitchRatings

Covenant Trends 

Average New-Issue Clearing Spreads (Single B) and Covenant Terms for All First-Lien

Institutional Loans

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Contact: Steven Miller / Covenant Review

High-Yield Bond Statistics

Launched Volume

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New-issue Yields

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Weekly Fund Flows

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Weekly fund flows source: Lipper

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Contact: Robert Polenberg / LevFin Insights

Debtwire Middle-Market

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The blue line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (currently at 10.9% as of 13 December) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, are lenders to privately held middle-market businesses that tend to be below investment grade or not rated, with most lending comprising of senior secured loans)...

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Contact: Suneet Chandvani/ Debtwire 

Private Debt Intelligence

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Top ten private debt funds hoover up 60% of capital in 2024 

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Read more in ‘Preqin 2025 Global Report: Private Debt’


The trend of capital consolidation in private capital continues unabated, with emerging managers finding it increasingly hard to raise funds as the vehicles raised by the most-well known and largest managers have drawn in greater shares of LP commitments...

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Contact: William Bennett-LynchPreqin

Middle Market Deal Terms at a Glance

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Contact: Stefan Shaffer / SPP Capital Partners

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