Drift Research Team - The Drift (Page 2)

BDC Weekly

BDC Weekly: The Rate Tailwind Has Split in Two

The Fed did not give markets a path. It gave them a fork. For BDC investors, the old higher-for-longer trade is splitting into two stories: income and credit.

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Private Credit

Asset-Backed Finance And AI Infrastructure: How Data Centers Become Collateral

AI infrastructure is becoming physical enough to finance against. The key question is whether data-center leases, equipment, receivables, and power contracts can produce reliable cash flow.

Private Credit

How AI Infrastructure Gets Financed: The Private-Market Capital Stack Behind Data Centers

The AI boom is not only a chip story. It is a capital-formation story built on power, land, leases, collateral, private credit, asset-backed finance, and long-duration underwriting.

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Private Credit

Private Credit Fund Terms Explained: Lockups, Redemption Windows, Gates And Liquidity Risk

Private-credit fund terms are where the liquidity promise becomes real: lockups, redemption windows, gates, caps, proration, NAV marks, and the tradeoff between private assets and investor cash.

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BDC Weekly

BDC Weekly: The Funding Test Is Hitting Private Credit

Hercules kept lending, Main Street and Blue Owl worked the liability side, Prospect priced new notes, and Ares put Q2 earnings on the clock. The BDC story is shifting from headline yield to funding power.

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BDC Weekly

BDC Weekly: The Fed Is Keeping Money Expensive As AI Raises The Demand For Credit

The Fed is keeping the price of money high just as AI infrastructure is creating a new capital-demand shock. BDCs are where the private-credit squeeze becomes visible.

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Private Credit

Who Finances AI Data Centers? The Capital Stack Behind The AI Boom

QQQ owns the visible AI story. The data-center financing stack shows the hidden credit, real-estate, infrastructure, and private-market layer underneath it.

Private Credit

Private Credit’s Discipline Cycle Has Started

A financial machine had a decade of favorable weather. Now the weather changed, and we are learning which parts were engineering and which parts were marketing.

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BDCs

BDC Stress Map: FSK Carries the Damage as ARCC Loses Cushion

Private-credit stress is splitting into different failures: damaged loans, shrinking portfolios, thin payout cushions, and premium platforms facing harder tests.

Private Credit

What Is the Private Credit Crisis?

Private credit is not collapsing in one dramatic moment. The stress is moving through redemption gates, borrower cash flows, dividend coverage, and trust in private loan marks.

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BDC Weekly

BDC Weekly: The Dividend Cushion Is Getting Thinner

BDC dividends still look high. The better question is how much of that payout is being earned in cash, how much depends on PIK income, and which lenders still have real funding flexibility.

BDCs

What Is a BDC Stock? The Public Share of a Private-Credit Lender

A BDC stock looks like a dividend stock on the surface. Underneath, it is public-market exposure to a private-credit lending machine.