Hercules Capital issues a new Baby Bond but might repay an existing issue. The BDC Reporter analyzes this latest debt raise from a number of perspectives.
One rating group downgrades Hercules Capital from investment grade, another moves in. Another example of the changing dynamics of BDC debt credit ratings.
Hercules Capital adopts the new asset coverage rules and asks shareholders for their blessing. This is Big News in more ways than one, and we discuss the implications for the BDC and the sector generally.
The first week of BDC earnings season maintains the BDC rally. The BDC Reporter looks both at the sector’s short and long term prospects, while offering up all sorts of numbers you won’t find anywhere else.
A quiet week, both in terms of price changes and news developments, in BDC Fixed Income. Looking around the corner, we speculate as to whether the universe of publicly traded unsecured BDC debt gets bigger or smaller.
The BDC sector has a very good week almost across the board, despite few developments as investors jockey for position before earnings season. We discuss at length one factor that could prolong the rally and briefly (teasingly ?) mention another.
A bounce back in BDC Fixed Income prices during a short week. Otherwise, we learn what we can from Prospect Capital’s latest debt offerings and review likely early debt redemptions. (This is the full version of the article. An earlier version was truncated by pixies for reasons unknown).
BDC Fixed Income prices do nothing very surprising on the week. However, the BDC Reporter is startled by Prospect Capital’s newest Baby Bond offering and its implications for the BDC debt market more generally.
BDC Fixed Income prices are modestly higher. More importantly, the landscape for unsecured BDC debt changes before our very eyes.
BDC Fixed Income prices did not move much on the week, but the outlook for the entire sector for years to come shifted dramatically.
A watershed week for the BDC Sector, but not for the usual reasons.
BDC Fixed Income prices are going nowhere but are the number of issues in the segment poised to boom ? We give two reasons why that might be the case.
Hercules Capital updates its new Baby Bond Prospectus. The BDC Reporter looks down the credit road.
