May 18, 2018 - Economy & Business

Leveraged loan market tops $1 trillion

The U.S. leveraged loans market market recently topped $1 trillion for the first time ever, having grown each consecutive year since 2010. We asked Randy Schwimmer, head of origination and capital markets at Churchill Asset Management, if markets should be concerned:

"Not by the level per se, which is pretty consistent with the popularity of the asset class. More worrisome is large cap structural deterioration at the borrower level."
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