MRCCL News and Press, Monroe Capital Corporation 5.75% Notes due 2023 From 06/16/20

As we all know very well, the coronavirus has shut down economic activity across the world, impacting nearly all businesses, but hitting small businesses especially hard. This has had a direct effect on the balance sheets of business development companies (or BDCs for short). For the uniniti...

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. The following slide from ARCC breaks out many of the requirements of the BDC/RIC structure inclu...

Investing in BDC Baby Bonds This article is part of a series discussing Business Development Company ("BDC") Baby Bonds (also known as exchange-traded debt) for investors who would like to limit the amount of overall risk and pricing volatility in exchange for lower yields. These article...

Quick Article Follow-Up As mentioned earlier this month in " Heavily-Discounted Monthly Dividend Payer ," Business Development Companies continue to trade at depressed values for many reasons including being considered small-cap, financial sector, and high yield, all of which have been ...

Monroe Capital Corp (MRCC) Q2 2020 Results Earnings Conference Call May 11, 2020 11:00 AM ET Company Participants Ted Koenig - Chief Executive Officer Aaron Peck - Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer Conference Call Participants Bob Napoli - William Blair...

Editors' Note: This is the transcript of the video we posted last Saturday. Please note that due to time and audio constraints, transcription may not be perfect. We encourage you to listen to the video as well as a combined podcast featuring two other interviews along with this one, embedde...

Co-produced with PendragonY Given recent market action and the on-going issues with the coronavirus and its spread, many are concerned about how BDCs will perform during today's extraordinary times. BDCs invest in middle-market companies, not the tiniest but far from the largest. M...

Rethinking Portfolio Allocations WisdomTree and Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, are encouraging investors to consider alternatives to the traditional "60% stock, 40% bond allocation" in this recent CNBC interview : We...

MRCC Article Follow-Up: As mentioned in " Why Investors Are Selling 12% Yielding Monroe Capital ," Monroe Capital ( MRCC ) is likely going to report credit problems that will likely drive an upcoming dividend reduction in 2020. Clearly, investors agreed and continued to sell the stock:...

The other day I covered business development companies in " BIZD: As High-Yield Credit Spreads Fall, BDCs Will Perform Well " that explained why I believe BDCs are a solid bet over the next few months and how the ETF BIZD is a decent way to make that bet. While I like BIZD, I believe that ...