A pragmatist's guide to leveraged finance credit analysis for bonds and bank debt

The high-yield leveraged bond and loan market (“junk bonds”) is now valued at $3+ trillion in North America, €1 trillion in Europe, and another $1 trillion in emerging markets. What’s more, based on the maturity schedules of current debt, it’s poised for massive growth. To successfully issue, evalua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kricheff, Robert, 1963- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press c2012.
Edición:1st edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628639906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Some common leveraged finance terms
  • Defining the market and the ratings agencies
  • The participants
  • Why is leveraged finance analysis unique?
  • The major components of analysis
  • Some features of bank loans
  • A primer on prices, yields, and spreads
  • A primer on key points on financial statement analysis
  • Credit ratios
  • Business trend analysis and operational ratios
  • Expectations, modeling, and scenarios
  • Structural issues : coupons
  • Structural issues : maturities, calls, and puts
  • Structural issues : ranking of debt
  • Key leveraged finance covenants
  • Amendments, waivers,and consents
  • Making money or losing it off of news events
  • Management and ownership
  • I am looking at debt, so why does the equity matter?
  • Value, relative value, and comparable analysis
  • New issuance
  • Distressed credits, bankruptcy, and distressed exchanges
  • Preparing a credit snapshot
  • The investment decision process
  • Closing comments.