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Peeking Behind the Private-Credit Curtain; AI Bonds Pressure Markets

By Andrew Scurria

 

Welcome to WSJ Pro Bankruptcy's Daily Briefing. It's Monday, November 25. In today's briefing, Wall Street wants to sell data on private markets, where institutional investors pay hefty fees and receive scant information. And prices of new tech bonds have slid, adding to investors’ market anxieties.

 

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Investors clamor for a peek behind the private markets curtain. Selling data on private equity and private credit is becoming big business on Wall Street. In a market where opacity is the whole point, it is also a tricky feat.

 
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AI bonds pressure markets. Wall Street is straining to absorb a flood of new bonds from tech companies funding their artificial intelligence investments, adding to the recent pressure in markets. Companies were able to complete their sales. But some had to pay unexpectedly high interest rates.

 
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Private Equity

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Private equity’s old money is not happy about the new. The private markets, long the preserve of institutional investors such as pension systems and endowments, are being reshaped by a surge of capital from wealthy individuals. Pension managers worry that all this investment from wealthy individuals could erode their returns.

 

Bankruptcy

Law firms denied $21 million Boy Scouts contribution fee. A federal appeals court ruled Friday that law firms representing Boy Scouts of America sex-abuse claimants didn't contribute enough toward its chapter 11 reorganization plan to warrant payment of $21 million in fees from the bankruptcy estate.

The work performed by lawyers for the Coalition of Abused Scouts for Justice primarily benefitted abuse survivors rather than the bankruptcy estate as a whole and duplicated the work of other parties, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

  • Read the opinion here.
 

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