BSL News and Press, Blackstone GSO Senior Floating Rate Term Fund of Beneficial Interest From 11/04/18

Background A few months ago, I wrote about the The Fed Dilemma . I have since then discussed the various points in more details. The last financial crisis was primarily caused by high leverage among households and financial institutions. Banks have deleveraged significantly since then and t...

With rising interest rates hurting stock and bond prices, there's one asset that's outperforming almost every asset class this month--corporate loans, especially leveraged loans. More news on: Oxford Lane Capital, Invesco Senior Loan ETF, Eagle Point Credit Company Inc., Financial stocks...

In this article, I will provide a weekly review of CEFs that invest in senior loans. Considering the risk and return, senior loans are positioned between investment grade corporate bonds and high yield bonds. Usually, they have a floating rate feature and are expected to be less rate-sensitive...

In January 2018, Blackstone / GSO Senior Floating Rate Term Fund (NYSE: BSL) (the “Fund”) filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to the offering of additional common shares of the Fund pursuant to a transferable...

For the first time in a year, there will be no leveraged loan defaults for an entire calendar month, according to Fitch. More news on: Invesco Senior Loan ETF, Eagle Point Credit Company Inc., Voya Prime Rate Trust, News on ETFs, Read more ...

Investors led by Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX ) are set to start marketing $8B of leveraged corporate loans next week to finance their buyout of Thomson Reuters's (NYSE: TRI ) financial and risk business, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter. More news on: The Blacksto...

Leveraged loans issued at the razor-thin margin of just 175 basis points over Libor haven't been doing well in the secondary market, reports Bloomberg, with most recent deals being bid below par. According to the data, 89.5% of loans issued at that spread in May and June are at or below par,...

The first article in this series, which framed our investment objective and introduced the idea of a Term CEF Ladder, can be found here . Next in line were Mortgage Bond , Senior Loan , and High-Yield CEFs. A discussion in the comments section of our HY CEF article prompted me to pen a s...

The first article in this series, which framed our investment objective and introduced the idea of a Term CEF Ladder, can be found here . We then covered Mortgage Bond , Senior Loan , and High-Yield CEFs. A discussion in the comments section of our HY CEF article prompted me to pen a s...

The first article in this series, which framed our investment objective and introduced the idea of a Term CEF Ladder, can be found here . We then covered Mortgage Bond , Senior Loan , and High-Yield CEFs. A discussion in the comments section of our HY CEF article prompted me to pen a sec...