Loan Note: Risk evident in loan market, private debt Q1 returns

Some of the leveraged loan market's leading indicators are giving cause for concern. Plus, China's private lending rate cap and returns data from the first quarter. Here's today's brief for our valued subscribers only.

She said it

“Instead of building financial models with long-term assumptions, the relevance of reading signals and acting on them will increase.”

Gabriella Kindert, private markets specialist and member of the supervisory board at Mizuho Europe, with thoughts on how the current crisis will shape private debt (see 10 industry views here)

First look

Spreads up as covid-19 takes toll 

‘Risk’ is a word that’s used a lot in the context of private debt in the latest report on private markets from UBS Global Wealth Management, with spreads in the syndicated mid-market having moved higher...

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