CGBD News and Press, TCG BDC Inc. From 07/02/19

Commentary It turned out May 2019 was a great month to increase income producing shares. The best way to invest in the market is to plant seed (capital) in a fertile protective valley and avoid steep mountain tops. I have noticed a decrease in my attentiveness when the price of my holdings...

What is a BDC? Business Development Companies ("BDCs") were created by Congress in 1980 to give investors an opportunity to invest in private small and mid-sized U.S. companies typically overlooked by banks. Most BDCs are publicly traded with a highly transparent structure subject to oversig...

Reiterating Our Philosophy and How It Relates To TCG BDC Toward the beginning of the year, Williams Equity Research added TCG BDC, Inc. ( CGBD ) to the BDC sleeve's "Contenders" for an allocation to the Institutional Income Plus ("IIP") marketplace portfolio. More recently, we raised CGB...

This article compares bond ETFs such as the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF ( HYG ) and the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF ( JNK ) to Business Development Companies ("BDCs"). As mentioned a while ago in "High-Yield Bond ETFs Are Getting Crushed by BDCs," BDCs h...

NEW YORK, June 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TCG BDC, Inc. (together with its consolidated subsidiaries, “we,” “us,” “our,” “TCG BDC” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: CGBD) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a ...

Prospect Capital's ( PSEC ) net asset value ("NAV") per share has declined by 15% over the last 5 years and heading lower for the reasons discussed in this article. Also discussed is an excellent replacement for selling PSEC shareholders while maintaining an 11% dividend yield . As mentio...

So let's talk high income! Over the years I have discussed a number of asset classes and ETF investments which focus on very high income, or more precisely distribution rates. These would be asset classes such as closed-end funds and REITs, many of which are packaged in the very popular...

BDC Market Update As predicted in many previous articles, business development companies ("BDCs") have been outperforming the S&P 500 in 2019 with the average BDC up around 16.2% after taking into account dividends as compared to the S&P 500 up around 11.5% (also including dividend...

TCG BDC ( CGBD ) is a business development company ("BDC") that is externally managed by Carlyle GMS Investment Management and part of the Carlyle Group which is a global alternative asset manager with $222 billion of AUM across ~360 investment vehicles (including CGBD). CGBD Article Foll...

The following slide deck was published by TCG BDC, Inc. in conjunction with their 2019 Q1 earnings Read more ...