Investors hopeful for LBO pick-up

摘要

Loan investors are hopeful that a recent flurry of buyouts could help stoke the pipeline of leveraged loans for the first half of the year as volumes reach historic lows. Leveraged loan volume for the period is on track to be the weakest second quarter showing in seven years. Loan volume stood at just US$128.2bn on May 24, a far cry from US$413.5bn logged for the term in 2018 or the US$363.6bn raised in the second quarter of 2017.