For the second time in three months, loan returns were negative in the loan market. After returning 0.47% in September, the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index (LLI) produced a 0.43% loss in October –the worst monthly print this year.
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Secondary Market Monthly: October Executive Summary
For the second time in three months, loan returns were negative in the loan market. After returning 0.47% in September, the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index (LLI) produced a 0.43% loss in October –the worst monthly print this year.
Secondary Market Monthly September Executive Summary
After returning more than 4% during the two-month rally that began the year, the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index (LLI) has failed to sustain any meaningful momentum. Since March, monthly returns have flipped from positive to negative while market value returns were positive just twice – the last time being July. In September, despite market value losses that were negative yet again (albeit at just -0.02%), the LLI sported a total return of 0.47%.
Secondary Market Monthly: September Executive Summary
After returning more than 4% during the two-month rally that began the year, the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index (LLI) has failed to sustain any meaningful momentum. Since March, monthly returns have flipped from positive to negative while market value returns were positive just twice – the last time being July.
Secondary Market Monthly: August Executive Summary
Last month we highlighted that secondary loan prices finally caught a bid in July, following two consecutive months in the red. Well, the rally proved to be short lived as the secondary loan market generated its worst reading of the year in August.
Secondary Market Monthly: July Executive Summary
Following two consecutive months in the red, secondary loan market prices finally caught a bid in July. As a result, the average bid level on the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index (LLI) increased 27 basis points, to 97.06.
MTM Monthly, June: A Year Half Full
The S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan index (LLI) has returned 5.7% at the half-way point of 2019 – giving way to the best start of a year since the famed loan market rally of 2009. But 2019’s gains have not been just a straight shot higher nor have they outdone those produced by any of the other major asset classes – from equities through treasuries.
Secondary Market Monthly: June Executive Summary
The S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan index (LLI) has returned 5.7% at the half-way point of 2019 – giving way to the best start of a year since the famed loan market rally of 2009. But 2019’s gains have not been just a straight shot higher nor have they outdone those produced by any of the other […]
Secondary Trading Monthly May: Catching Our Breath…
After averaging more than $68 billion during each of the previous three months, secondary loan trading volume decreased 10% in May, to an eight-month low of just $61 billion. Moreover, that three-month period had followed three record setting months (November through January), where volumes spiked to an average of $74 billion per month.
Secondary Market Monthly: May Executive Summary
At two weeks shy of the midpoint of the year, the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan index (LLI) has returned 5.7%—the best start to a year since 2010. But the belly of that return, 4.2%, took place during the first two months of the year, when prices rallied in the secondary in the wake of the December […]
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