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The U.S. Leveraged Finance and Recovery team is producing a monthly podcast series entitled “The Upgrade.” This series focuses on leveraged finance issuers that have upward rating potential, providing listeners with concise insights from the primary analyst along with relevant CLO market implications. In the time of Covid-19, other timely topics are also being discussed. Listen and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Deezer.
On average, during the previous three recessions (2001, 2009, and 2020), about a quarter of 'B-' rated companies were downgraded to 'CCC', 'CC', or 'C' within the recession year, an indication of the vulnerability of the increasingly crowded 'B-' space. In this episode of The Upgrade podcast Hanna Zhang, Dan Hu, and Minesh Patel discuss key highlights from our recently published articles, " U.S. Leveraged Finance Q3 Update: 'CCC' Buckets Pick Up In CLOs As Cash Flow Generation Falls” and U.S. BSL CLO And Leveraged Finance Quarterly: Is Winter Coming? View related articles: - Leveraged Finance: U.S. Leveraged Finance Q3 Update: 'CCC' Buckets Pick Up In CLOs As Cash Flow Generation Falls - U.S. BSL CLO And Leveraged Finance Quarterly: Is Winter Coming?
Listen PodcastDiverging trends between benchmark rates and credit spreads in leveraged loan pricing in the majority of quarters over the past 15 years have kept loan funding costs in check, but the trend reversed in 2022. In this episode of The Upgrade podcast Ramki Muthukrishnan, Omkar Athalekar, and Minesh Patel discuss key highlights from our recently published article, " Leveraged Finance: Leveraged Loan Market Could Feel The Pinch Of Higher Benchmark Rates And Risk Premiums For A While ". Related Articles: Leveraged Finance: Leveraged Loan Market Could Feel The Pinch Of Higher Benchmark Rates And Risk Premiums For A While
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