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☆ New ETF gives regular investors access to booming new market on Wall Street
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A new fund hitting the market on Tuesday has a phrase in the title that ETF investors are about to become very familiar with: private credit. There is now a few trillion dollars in private credit assets under management, but the total addressable market for the asset class in the U.S. could top $30 trillion , according to consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The use of collateralized debt obligations, which pool a bunch of private credit loans together, is one approach. "The big hurdle to clear in investing in private credit in an ETF is liquidity. One high profile example is the proposed SPDR SSGA Apollo IG Public & Private Credit ETF, a collaboration between ETF giant State Street and Apollo's private credit expertise.

Persons: CLOs, Tony Kelly, Kelly, We're, Alliance Bernstein, Janus, PCMM Organizations: Nasdaq, Blackstone, Owl, McKinsey & Company, BlackRock, HPS Investment Partners, CNBC, Private Credit, State, Better Markets, Securities and Exchange Commission, Apollo, Alliance, Virtus Private, AAA CLO Locations: U.S, CLOs

☆ Modelo brewer Constellation Brands' sale of Svedka vodka is a positive move for the stock
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Constellation Brands ' decision to sell its Svedka vodka brand is a step in the right direction as the Modelo and Corona brewer focuses on its high-end businesses. The news Constellation said Tuesday it will sell Svedka to New Orleans-based Sazerac, which owns hundreds of brands from distilleries around the world. For all of fiscal 2025, Constellation expects wine and spirits to deliver a full-year net sales decline between 4% to 6%. STZ .SPX YTD mountain Constellation Brands YTD Big picture The Svedka transaction is part of management's "premiumization" strategy to reshape its wine and spirits portfolio. Constellation Brands Inc. Svedka vodka at a liquor store in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York, US, on Friday, June 28, 2024.

Persons: Kim Crawford, Casa Noble, Mi Campo, Bernstein, Paul Masson, Clos, Gallo, Jim Cramer, Jim, Donald Trump, Morgan, Garth Hankinson, Jim Cramer's, Bing Guan Organizations: Constellation Brands, Modelo, Corona, Constellation, Clos du Bois, CNBC, Constellation Brands Inc, Bloomberg, Getty, & $ Locations: New Orleans, Corona, Pacifico, Mexico, U.S, New York

☆ Goldman says 2025 will be the 'year of generating income'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is predicting 2025 will be the "year of generating income." One focuses on the S & P 500 — Goldman Sachs S & P 500 Core Premium Income ETF (GPIX) and another on the Nasdaq-100 index — Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Core Premium Income ETF (GPIQ ). High-yield muni bonds Shah also sees opportunity for income within high-yield municipal bonds . "Municipal high yield is a good way of generating income that can compete with your appreciation," Shah said. GHYAX YTD mountain Goldman Sachs High Yield Municipal Fund Dividend stocks and bonds Investors can also turn to more traditional forms of income in dividend stocks and fixed income, Shah said.

Persons: Goldman, Ashish Shah, Shah, — Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Organizations: Management, CNBC, Federal Reserve, Crane Data, nab, Investors, Goldman, Nasdaq, Goldman Sachs Nasdaq Locations: securitized

☆ The 10-year Treasury yield has been rising. Here's where BlackRock’s Rick Rieder sees an opportunity
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Darla Mercado | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Opportunities abound for income-seeking investors, even as the 10-year Treasury has seen a volatile week, according to BlackRock's Rick Rieder. The iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (USHY) , for instance, has a duration of 3.2 years and a 30-day SEC yield of 7.22%. Meanwhile, the Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund (VWEHX) has an average duration of 2.9 years, and a 30-day SEC yield of 6.03%. "You can stay higher quality, floating rate oriented, and clip yield," Rieder said. He thinks it's prime time for income investors to snap up yield without stretching into lower quality.

Persons: BlackRock's Rick Rieder, Donald Trump, Rieder, CLOs, Janus Henderson Organizations: Treasury, Federal, BlackRock, CNBC, Standard, SEC, Fund, AAA, Janus Henderson AAA CLO Locations: CLOs, Europe

☆ Inside Blackstone's growing 'credit juggernaut'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Private lending is now Blackstone's largest business by assets, up 22% since last year. Inside Blackstone's growing "credit juggernaut." By contrast, Blackstone's private-equity business manages $344.7 billion, and its real-estate investing arm, the firm's largest business at the start of the quarter, has $325.1 billion. The largest third-party lenderWhile Blackstone now claims to be the largest third-party credit provider, Apollo is the largest non-bank lender with $562 billion in private credit assets under management. Blackstone's private credit arm has generated 16.7% in returns over the last twelve months, though falling interest rates "put some pressure on absolute returns," Gray said.

Persons: Jon Gray, —, Blackstone, Jonathan Gray, CLOs, Gray, Steve Schwarzman, that's, We're, It's, Schwarzman Organizations: Service, Blackstone, Canada, Plan Investment Locations: New York, Asia, Pacific

☆ Commercial property has been in a slump. How lower interest rates could lift it out.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Daniel Geiger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewUma Moriarity, a senior investment strategist at a real estate investment firm based outside of Philadelphia, is feeling better about deal-making in commercial real estate. A reduction in the Fed's benchmark rate would bring relief to the $22.5 trillion US commercial real estate market, which was shaken by a series of interest rate increases beginning in March 2022. AdvertisementThe increases diminished commercial property values, raised mortgage defaults, and triggered the sector's worst downturn since the financial crisis more than 15 years ago. "We're looking at a very good 2025 and beyond," Mark Rose, the CEO of the real estate services firm Avison Young, said. "Commercial property prices have increased over the past few months as bond yields have declined," Peter Rothemund, the co-head of strategic research at Green Street, said in the firm's recent property pricing report.

Persons: —, Uma Moriarity, Moriarty, Mark Rose, Avison Young, Richard Barkham, We've, Fitch, CMBS, Peter Rothemund, Alan Todd, Todd, CLO Organizations: Service, Federal Reserve, Business, CenterSquare Investment Management, Green, Mortgage, Association, Bank of America, Bank of America Securities Locations: Philadelphia, Trepp

☆ BlackRock's Rick Rieder says a golden age for fixed income begins this week with the Fed rate cut
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

With the Federal Reserve expected to begin its rate-cutting cycle this week, investors should take advantage of this "golden age of fixed income" now, according to BlackRock's Rick Rieder. "The world is changing," said Rieder, the asset manager's global chief investment officer of fixed income. In this environment, Rieder likes the belly of the curve and assets like securitized products , high yield and European credit. BINC currently has about 28% of its assets in non-U.S. credit and about 20% in U.S. high-yield bonds. Rieder is not concerned about the narrow spreads in high-yield credit.

Persons: BlackRock's Rick Rieder, —, Rieder, BINC, We've, CLOs Organizations: Federal Reserve, SEC, Fed, AAA, MBS, AAA CLOs Locations: BlackRock, Europe, U.S

☆ Five things to watch from the swimming competition at this year’s Olympic Games
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Paris CNN —The first week of the Olympics and with it comes one of the Games’ signature events: Swimming. Here are five things to watch from this year’s swimming competition in Paris. The back-and-forth will take on new life as Aussie and American swimmers take to the pool and compete to take home the most medals. Bronte Campbell, swimming on the Australian’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay team, told reporters: “I really respect our American competitors. “So that was a really, really special event tonight.”

Persons: Paris CNN —, Katie Ledecky, Jean Catuffe, Ledecky, She’ll, She’s, hasn’t, she’s, Titmus, Ledecky’s, Summer McIntosh, Rob Koehler, ”, “, ” CHINADA, Witold Bańka, Caeleb Dressel, ” Dressel, Cate Campbell –, Michael Phelps, Phelps, Campbell, “ It’s, ” Campbell, I’ve, Ian Thorpe of, Chad le Clos, …, ” Phelps, USA’s, Phelps ’, Bronte Campbell, ” Leon Marchand, Leon Marchand, Sarah Stier, Marchand, It’s, Dressel, he’s Organizations: Paris CNN, Team USA, Olympic Games, Paris La Defense, La Défense, New York Times, Tokyo Olympics, Global, CNN, Tokyo, Doping Agency, CHINADA, NBC, USA, Team France, Olympic Locations: Paris, Nanterre, France, Tokyo, La, American, USA, Australian, Ian Thorpe of Australia, South Africa

☆ Chad Le Clos aims for second Olympic gold, aged 32
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Daniel Renjifo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Chad Le Clos: I’ve just turned 32, so obviously it’s a little bit of a different stage in my life. What it means for everyone in my, let’s say, Chad Le Clos bubble. Chad Le Clos (left) and Michael Phelps (right) show off their medals at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Chad Le Clos after competing in a semi-final of the men's 100m butterfly, at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, February 16, 2024. Le Clos: I’m pretty confident I’ll be in LA, respectfully.

Persons: Chad Le Clos, ”, Dirk Lange, Le Clos, Michael Phelps, FABRICE COFFRINI, I’ve, Phelps, Penny Haynes, I’m, You’ve, Sebastien Bozon, Michael Phelps’s, That’s, don’t, Michael, you’ve, dog’s, we’ll Organizations: CNN, Paris Olympics, Commonwealth Games, London, AFP, Getty, Olympic, Paris, Athens Olympics, Atlanta Olympics, —, Getty Images CNN Locations: South, Tokyo, Germany, South Africa, German, Melbourne, Durban, AFP, London, Beijing, Doha, Budapest, Los, LA

☆ Investors poured $1.6 billion into this riskier corner of the bond market in June, State Street says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Darla Mercado | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

However, investors were also content to ramp up credit risk, directing more than $1.6 billion into ETFs with underlying bank loans and collateralized loan obligations, or CLOs, State Street found. Big institutional investors can purchase bank loans — which lending institutions make to companies — and benefit from the loans' floating coupon rate. CLOs are similar to bank loans: These are pools of floating rate loans made to businesses, which can be non-investment grade. Bank loans and CLOs tend to have less price sensitivity to changes in rates, meaning they are short duration. "Rate policy is evolving and uncertain, and it's unlikely to be less cloudy as we get into the summer months."

Persons: Matthew Bartolini, CLOs, Janus Henderson, Bartolini Organizations: State, SPDR, SPDR Americas Research, Street Global Advisors, CLOs, AAA, SEC, Janus Henderson AAA CLO, CNBC, Bank Locations: CLOs, SPDR Americas, BlackRock

☆ Here’s where money managers are seeking income at mid-year as rates stay high
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Darla Mercado | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The prospect of "higher for longer" rates has also made short-term fixed income assets especially attractive. "We had a lot of investors who were in, if not cash, then sub-2-year duration fixed income at the start of the year." Takeaways for investors It doesn't hurt for retail investors to review their fixed income allocation now that the year is halfway over. A combination of fixed income assets may be what it takes to benefit from today's higher rates, lock in yields and capture rising prices once the Fed cuts. "We don't buy that there's one fixed income asset class that you should tilt toward," said Calcagni.

Persons: –, Don Calcagni, it's, Shannon Saccocia, Neuberger Berman, Michael Rosen, Rosen, Janus Henderson, Vishal Khanduja, Eaton Vance, Khanduja, Callie Cox Organizations: Federal Reserve, FedWatch, Investment Company Institute, Money, Mercer Advisors, Investors, Municipal, Angeles Investment Advisors, AAA CLOs, Janus Henderson AAA CLO, SEC, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Bond, Ritholtz Wealth Management, Stay Locations: Santa Monica, Calif

☆ Here's where BlackRock's bond guru Rick Rieder sees opportunity right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

There's a lot to like right now in the fixed income market, according to BlackRock's Rick Rieder. He finds European credit, both investment grade and BB-rated high yield, attractive in part because of the strong U.S. dollar. They have also added high quality CLOs and high-quality European securitized assets. "We're getting more yield than BB high yield. We're getting almost as much yield as full high yield — and our volatility is 60% of that market, just because we diversified," Rieder said.

Persons: BlackRock's Rick Rieder, Rieder, Bond, Fed Governor Waller, I've, He'd, Morningstar, We've, we're, BINC, We're, they'll Organizations: CNBC, SEC, Federal Reserve, Fed, AAA, BlackRock AAA, BlackRock AAA CLO, U.S, CLOs, MBS Locations: BlackRock, CLOs, European

☆ Why some investors are bullish on this asset class that's yielding over 6%
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Right now, securitized products in general look relatively cheap, said John Kerschner, head of U.S. securitized products and portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors. To meet this need, Janus launched its Securitized Income ETF (JSI) in November, which invests across the securitized space. JSI YTD mountain Janus Henderson Securitized Income ETF Collateralized loan obligations Another fund Kerschner manages is the Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF . One way investors can get broad exposure to CMBS via BlackRock's iShares CMBS ETF . CMBS YTD mountain iShares CMBS ETF year to date However, Janus' Kerschner pointed out that all office work isn't going away.

Persons: Nick Travaglino, Nuveen, Travaglino, John Kerschner, Janus Henderson, Janus, Kerschner, Rick Rieder, I've, Rieder, CLOs, it's, isn't, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Kershner, We're Organizations: Investors, Fund, Janus Henderson Investors, SEC, Janus Henderson AAA CLO, Bank of America, AAA CLOs, BlackRock AAA CLO Locations: CLOs, BlackRock, Moody's, CMBS, multifamily

☆ How BlackRock’s Rick Rieder would reimagine the 60/40 portfolio with today’s higher rates
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Darla Mercado | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The balanced portfolio – which typically allocates 60% of assets toward stocks and 40% to fixed income –could use a rethink in today's higher rate environment, according to BlackRock's Rick Rieder. "For 30 years, fixed income was a hedge," said Rieder, the asset manager's global chief investment officer of fixed income, in a phone call with CNBC. A 60/30/10 split Rather than a 60/40 split toward equities and fixed income, Rieder said he would consider a 60/30/10 allocation if he had to build a balanced portfolio. That is, he'd maintain a 60% allocation toward stocks, but keep 30% of the portfolio in "higher income, shorter duration" assets. In addition to AAA-rated CLOs, Rieder also likes European investment-grade credit as a U.S. dollar investor.

Persons: BlackRock's Rick Rieder, Jerome Powell, Rieder, Jared Woodard Organizations: CNBC, Federal Reserve, AAA, Bank of, CLOs Locations: Central

☆ This fixed income play touts yields upward of 6% — and the risk is relatively low, Bank of America says
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Darla Mercado | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The firm began coverage of this corner of the ETF space on Monday. An ETF play Woodard's team began coverage of one CLO fund: the Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF (JAAA) . "Among covered ETFs with higher credit quality, it has the highest yield," Woodard said. There is also BlackRock's AAA CLO ETF (CLOA) , an actively managed offering with an expense ratio of 0.20% and a 30-day SEC yield of 6.59%. Investors digging into the CLO ETF space shouldn't just focus on yield, of course.

Persons: Jared Woodard, Woodard, Jerome Powell, CLOs, Janus Henderson, JAAA Organizations: Federal Reserve, Bank of America, AAA, Janus Henderson AAA CLO, SEC, AA, AAA CLO, CLOs, BBB

☆ Risky commercial real estate investments are getting squeezed as the market collapses
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Delinquent assets are taking over investment products that bundle risky commercial real estate debt, Bloomberg reported. Issuers are extending maturities and buying back delinquent loans. Between 2019 and 2021, CLO issuance skyrocketed from $19 billion to $45 billion, Bloomberg found. Others are using cash reserves to buy out delinquent loans, purchasing a record $1.3 billion last year, according to JPMorgan estimates cited by the outlet. AdvertisementIssues with CLOs reflect a bigger theme in commercial real estate, as even investment grade projects face debt concerns.

Persons: —, CLOs Organizations: Bloomberg, Service, Investment, JPMorgan, Barclays

☆ Distress soared 440% in a key corner of the commercial real estate debt market in the last year
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Yuheng Zhan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Distress in a corner of the commercial mortgage market rose 440% in the last year. Loans packaged into commercial real estate CLOs saw a big uptick in distress. Distress levels in an important corner of the commercial real estate debt market have rocketed higher in the last year. Commercial mortgages packaged into collateralized loan obligations and sold to investors as bonds saw a distress rate of 8.6% in January, marking a huge jump from the beginning of 2023 when the rate was 1.4%. The amount of outstanding loans packaged into CLOs is about $80 billion, according to a report by data and analytics firm CRED iQ.

Persons: CLOs Organizations: CLOs, Business

☆ US commercial property loan activity to drop off in Q4 after Q3 pickup -DBRS
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Matt Tracy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The third quarter saw roughly $3 billion in new collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) backed by CRE loans, according to a Friday report by DBRS. This marks a significant turn from the second quarter, which saw less than $1 billion in CRE CLO issuance. Office-backed loans represented almost half of all CRE delinquencies in the third quarter, according to DBRS. An overall 3.27% delinquency rate for CRE CLOs in the third quarter was roughly in line with the second quarter rate, according to DBRS. There were $2.67 billion in delinquent CRE CLO loans as of September, a $20 million increase from the second quarter.

Persons: Marco Bello, DBRS Morningstar, CLOs, Loans, CRE CLOs, CRE, Matt Tracy, David Gregorio Our Organizations: U.S, DBRS, CRE, Thomson Locations: Miami, Biscayne Bay, Brickell, Downtown, Miami , Florida, U.S, DBRS, delinquencies

☆ Blackstone to raise $400 million to boost credit fund's lending power - FT
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen outside the Blackstone Group headquarters in New York City, U.S., January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 16 (Reuters) - Blackstone (BX.N) is in the final stages of raising about $400 million for its Blackstone Private Credit Fund (BCRED) to secure additional investment advantage, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The private equity firm will sell loans that BCRED owns to the CLO to enhance competitiveness, FT said. Blackstone, which also manages multiple other funds, faced a significant decline in withdrawal requests from Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT) in September, Kathleen MacCarthy, its global co-head of real estate, said then. Financial Times had in August reported that Blackstone, , plans to launch a private equity fund for wealthy individuals early next year.

Persons: CLOs, Blackstone, Kathleen MacCarthy, Mrinmay Dey, Dhanya Ann Thoppil Organizations: Blackstone Group, REUTERS, Blackstone, Blackstone Private Credit Fund, Financial Times, The, Reuters, Unified Women’s Healthcare, Blackstone Real, Income, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S, The New York, Bengaluru

☆ This structured credit ETF offers a higher yield than Treasuries and just hit $4 billion in assets
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF (JAAA) , which buys highly rated collateralized loan obligations, has grown rapidly this year and outperformed many popular bond ETFs. The fund has a 30-day SEC yield of 6.66%, putting it above the yield of U.S. Treasuries. JAAA YTD mountain The JAAA ETF has held up this year despite rising interest rates. There are other CLO ETFs on the market, including the BlackRock AAA CLO ETF (CLOA) that launched earlier this year, but JAAA is the largest. Given the size and depth of the AAA CLO market, the fund should have no problems operating until it is about $20 billion in assets, at least, he estimated.

Persons: Janus Henderson, John Kerschner, Kerschner, JAAA Organizations: Janus Henderson AAA CLO, SEC, CLOs, Treasury, Treasury Bond ETF, CNBC, JPMorgan AAA CLO, BlackRock AAA, AAA Locations: JAAA

Specialist asset managers minted CLOs worth more than half a trillion dollars in 2021, a year of heavy post-pandemic monetary stimulus. S&P Global estimates that more than one in 25 U.S. businesses and almost one in 25 European companies will default by March 2024. That has squeezed equity returns, and without equity investors, CLOs cannot be put together. S&P calculates that while CLO equity investors were able to get a 15% annual return before 2022, deals priced now would offer about 7%. "The (CLO) equity doesn't make enough money to justify buying it."

Persons: Florence Lo, CLOs, Morgan, Rob Shrekgast, KopenTech, Neha Khoda, It's, Marta Stojanova, You've, Aza Teeuwen, Laila Kollmorgen, Kollmorgen, tranches, BoFA, Naomi Rovnick, Chiara Elisei, Dhara Ranasinghe, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: REUTERS, Bank of America, Casino, Bed, TwentyFour, PineBridge Investments, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: CLOs, U.S

☆ Bonds Backed by Apartments Are Under Stress as Housing Market Cools
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Konrad Putzier | Will Parker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Defaults are rising for a niche mortgage bond used primarily to fund apartment-building purchases, another sign that rising interest rates are upending the property sector. This product, known as collateralized loan obligations, or CLOs, are mortgages packaged into bonds that are sold to investors. These mortgages helped fuel the rise in housing costs across Sunbelt states such as Arizona, Texas and Nevada, facilitating the purchase of buildings where property owners saw opportunities to raise rents.

☆ Landlords pumped billions into apartment buildings during the pandemic. That bet could now go horribly wrong.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Daniel Geiger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Big money investors pumped billions into buying up apartment buildings in the pandemic era. But fault lines have emerged for investors who paid top dollar for assets that depended on substantial rent increases and persistent low interest rates to achieve profitability. In those years, investors purchased $355.5 billion and $299.2 billion worth of apartment buildings, according to MSCI — unprecedented sums that far surpassed the previous $194 billion record of multifamily sales in 2019. "It's early, but it's going to become a bigger story, especially if interest rates stay high and lending standards are tight," said Alan Todd, the head of commercial-mortgage-backed-securities strategy at BofA Global Research. As these short-term debts come due, they will be difficult to swap with commensurately sized loans today, because of the falling values, higher interest rates, and lender caution.

☆ Only the big will crack the $1 trln LBO code
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Jonathan Guilford | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Lenders will only tiptoe back, meaning deals need the big checks and extra elbow grease in credit markets that favor the largest private equity firms. Private equity firms depend on borrowed money to reduce how much of their own they use in any single deal and to magnify returns as a percentage of their initial investment. Imagine a private equity firm acquires a company for $1 billion, then flips it five years later for $1.5 billion. Though the private equity industry is awash in so-called dry powder, fundraising is increasingly tilting to the largest fund managers. Buyout firms are apt to keep their plans more conservative to garner higher ratings – meaning, again, less leverage and more upfront cash.

☆ Landlords who bought thousands of apartments are facing a reckoning
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Daniel Geiger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Investors showed outsize interest in apartment buildings during the pandemic. Rents and occupancy rates were rising, interest rates remained relatively low, and rental-property prices were climbing with no sign of letting up during a surge in housing demand. Laguna Point did not respond to a request for comment. Marc McDevitt, a senior managing director at Cred iQ, said it was possible Laguna Point had lost some, or even all, of its investment in the deal. While offices have been going through a paradigmatic shift as more workers do their jobs remotely, apartment buildings have experienced robust demand from tenants.

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