US Private Debt an Untapped Opportunity
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, September 1, 2015 – Institutional investors should consider US private debt as an alternative investment strategy to obtain higher returns, says Churchill Asset Management.
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The Credit Market’s Uncrowded Trade: Lending to Middle Market America
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, August 31, 2015 – Churchill Asset Management, the reincarnated debt fund backed by US insurance giant TIAA-CREF, is looking to deploy more debt capital to America’s small to medium-sized businesses with enterprise values ranging from between $US50 million ($70 million) and $US500 million.
IO&C – How Investors Came to Dominate Corporate Lending
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, August 30, 2015 – Lending to medium-to-large corporates has taken on a different hue in recent years. Pension funds, generally through their fund managers, are now the most important group of lenders ahead of the major banks, especially in the US. The restructuring of GE Capital and its parent in April this year confirmed the permanence of the trend.
Hold Your Nose and Buy the Recap – Sometimes
NEW YORK, August 6, 2015 – It’s a perennial source of angst for loan buyers that target private equity-backed companies: how do you analyse transactions that finance a distribution to the sponsor by taking invested cash out of the company?
Churchill Asset Management Appoints Christopher Cox as Chief Risk Officer
NEW YORK, July 27, 2015 – Churchill Asset Management LLC (“Churchill”), a majority-owned subsidiary of TIAA-CREF focused on originating, underwriting and managing senior loan investments, today appointed Christopher Cox as a Senior Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer. The appointment is effective immediately.
Credit Due – After Jimmy, Banking is Different
NEW YORK, July 9, 2015 – The untimely passing last month of Jimmy Lee, JP Morgan Chase’s vice-chairman, at the age of 62, left many in the banking world reflecting on the legacy of a man who changed the face of buy-out finance. But it gave us the opportunity as well to consider the state of the industry he leaves behind.
Chief Investment Officer – The Fuel
NEW YORK, June, 2015 – Middle-market companies demand debt capital. With traditional lenders departing the space, a few select groups have ramped up their involvement – including the recently combined forces of TIAA- CREF and Churchill Asset Management. To discuss market dynamics and company culture, CIO Editor- in- Chief Kip McDaniel recently sat with Ken Kencel (President & CEO, Churchill), Randy Schwimmer (Head of Origination & Capital Market, Churchill), Brian Roelke (Head of Corporate Finance Originations, TIAA- CREF), and Shai Vichness (Head of Senior Leveraged Lending, TIAA- CREF).
Credit Due – Who Wants to Make Revolvers?
NEW YORK, June 11, 2015 – It’s been called the most mispriced security on Wall Street. It’s also the least-known casualty of bank regulatory reform. Welcome to the revolving credit facility.TIAA- CREF).
Credit Due – Cash Flow or Cash Faux?
NEW YORK, May 7, 2015 – Leveraged lending guidelines have set six times total leverage as the limit above which a loan would likely be criticised by examiners. Less noted by the media, but of growing interest to market players, are the components of leverage metrics: specifically, how the numerator (debt) and the denominator (earnings) are being massaged to put the best face on increasingly leveraged transactions.