Amid the coverage of Blue Owl Capital Inc.’s restriction on client redemptions from a business development company called Blue Owl Capital Corp. II, investors should take a quick step back to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brett uses “second-level thinking” to find dividend stocks to buy. The manic market has been dumping business development ...

The flow of investment money going into business development companies (also called “BDCs”) has been nothing short of phenomenal. Over the past five years, the amount of assets in these closed-end ...

The private credit “cockroaches” may have finally arrived, and they’re scurrying from the software sector. They may also have created opportunities in shares of business development companies that own ...

Private credit, broadly defined as non-bank lending directly to companies outside traditional public markets, has seen remarkable growth over the past decade. Among the various entities operating ...

Sean-Paul Adams is a Senior Research Analyst at B. Riley Securities covering business development companies (BDCs) and the broader specialty finance sector. Prior to joining B. Riley Securities, he ...

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Because of Blue Owl, concerns over private BDCs have spilled over to push down prices of publicly traded BDCs - many of which trade at large discounts to their reported asset valuations Stocks of ...