With “the next downturn” in sight, a Moody’s report seeks to gain insight from how debt is structured relative to default and investor recovery data. What matters in recovering assets after a loan has gone bad is not so much based on how that asset is titled as it does on where in the structure the lender has positioned themselves for repayment. Also, bank debt aint what it used to be according to the new report. Lender structure location matters most when reclaiming assets With its Ultimate Recovery Database covering over 5,500 debt instruments and 1,100 non-financial companies that…
Neither Debt Title Nor Industry Biggest Factor In Default Recovery
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.