private debt

The meltdown of Silicon Valley Bank is “an early step” towards a more rational market environment, according to Howard Marks, but new problems might arise from bank exposure to commercial real estate.

Private debt has several key advantages over equities and other forms of fixed income investing when it comes to influencing companies in the development and implementation of ESG commitments.

One part of the market that is benefitting from inflation and interest rate increases is private debt; senior secured loans, in particular, have returned 4.8 per cent over the past two years.

Regardless of which name you know it by, private credit, may just be the most popular asset class of 2020. The concept of private debt is straightforward, it involves lending money to private rather than public or ASX-listed companies. Almost every reader of this newsletter will have made a fixed income or bond investment at…

LIC/LIT IPO Vintage Year Analysis The listed investment company/listed investment trust (LIC/LIT) sector in the ASX has copped a lot of criticism over the last 12 months, in relation to the apparent mis-selling of new issues and conflicts of interest. We have no interest in revisiting the debate, other than to say that it is…

Consider the process by which a security or investment is priced. Separately, if it has similar fundamental underpinnings to the core part of portfolio, typically listed equity.