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OCTOBER 20, 2024

For decades, ADM has leveraged its enormous global asset base to originate, process, and transport agricultural commodities between over 190 countries. Lots of businesses can crush soybeans, but doing it at a price point that attracts food producers isn't easy. Royalty Pharma Royalty Pharma is another specialized finance business.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 2, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It focuses primarily on providing financing alternatives to the upper end of the middle market. However, the company's yield of around 7.5% isn't shabby at all.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

It's a business development company (BDC) that's required to distribute at least 90% of its income to shareholders in the form of dividends to be exempt from federal taxes. More importantly, the company has a more stringent risk management approach than most of its peers. Ares Capital stands out from most BDCs, though.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In simple terms, mortgage REITs look to borrow money at the lowest possible short-term rate and use this capital to purchase higher-yielding long-term assets. These "long-term assets" are often mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which is how the industry got its name. The company raised its monthly payout twice last year.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

Spirit Realty's CRE portfolio will complement Realty Income's existing assets, while allowing the combined company to further diversify beyond retail. BDCs are businesses that invest in small- and micro-cap companies (collectively known as "middle-market companies"). History offers comfort for investors, as well.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The company's dividend yield of 9.49% would enable you to make well nearly $3,638 in passive income this year. Ares Capital offers such a high yield primarily because of its business structure. Of course, the company must generate plenty of income in the first place to have enough to pay dividends.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

In other words, they're businesses that have demonstrated their staying power to investors through thick and thin. Morgan Asset Management, a division of money-center bank JPMorgan Chase , publicly traded companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012 produced an annualized return of 9.5%.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AT&T Income-seeking investors should be flocking to AT&T (NYSE: T) now that it's sold off all of its risky media assets. This is a heavy load, but highly reliable cash flows from mobile, home, and business internet subscribers are sufficient to whittle it down to a more manageable figure. yield at recent prices.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

Net-interest margin" refers to the average yield AGNC nets from its owned assets less the average yield on what it's borrowed. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel for AGNC, and this good news should provide a lift to the company's shares sooner than later. million of the company's $950.3 Furthermore, all but $1.1

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 10.95% yield A second incomparable ultra-high-yield dividend stock that's begging to be added to income seekers' portfolios in December is little-known business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT). million of the company's $906.3

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The Big Picture

APRIL 1, 2023

 This week, we speak with Ken Kencel, who is president and chief executive officer of Churchill Asset Management, a private credit firm with $46 billion in assets under management that was the top US private equity lender in the 2022 PitchBook league tables and was named 2022 Lender Firm of the Year by The M&A Advisor.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Ares Capital ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It focuses on providing financing to the upper end of the middle market. This, along with the company's diversified portfolio, means Ares Capital's investments are less risky -- which is good news for long-term investors.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Centerbridge Partners and Wells Fargo & Company announced they are entering into a strategic relationship focused on direct lending to non-sponsor North American middle market companies. Overland Advisors is targeting a minimum of $5bn in investible capital, including $2.5bn in equity commitments for this strategy. “We

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Another reason income investors can trust Annaly is its focus on agency assets. While this added protection does lower the yield Annaly receives on the MBSs it purchases, it also enables the company to prudently leverage its investments. This means financing deals will usually have a premium rate that favors the lender.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Treasury's yield to 4.1%, is driving many conservative investors away from fixed-income assets and back toward high-yielding dividend stocks. BDCs are generally valued by their net assets per share, and can trade at a premium or a discount to that metric. in net assets per share at the end of June. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). The company provides financing to middle-market businesses with a special focus on the upper end of that market. The company's total return has trounced the S&P 500 over the long run.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

dividend yield Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company (BDC) that specializes in providing capital to venture-backed start-ups. Hercules is different from a typical bank as it tends to offer more flexible financing options. Hercules Capital: 10.6%

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Instead, Ares Capital is one of the stocks owned by New England Asset Management (NEAM). Ares Capital ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It provides financing to middle-market businesses that banks sometimes shun.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Investment manager Barings has filed a lawsuit against Corinthia Global Management and former employees Ian Fowler and Kelsey Tucker after the Nomura Holdings-backed private credit asset manager recruited over 20 employees from Barings in recent years, according to a report by Bloomberg. We will continue to fund existing commitments.”

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

But with so many opportunities out there, it's challenging to identify companies that both pay dividends and consistently perform at a high level. One good place to source ideas is to look at business development companies (BDCs). Horizon Technology Finance: Dividend yield 11.4% dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 8, 2024

It owns an ever-expanding portfolio of wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and other power-producing assets ranging across five continents. The company has a proven ability to identify projects with superior profit potential. Ares operates as a business development company ( BDC ). Therein lies Ares' opportunity.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

It has vaulted to the top rungs of the alternative-asset management world by focusing on what it does best: private credit. Yet, like its peers, Ares feels compelled to diversify into other asset classes, such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. Ares Management Corp. billion last year.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC) on the market. Its assets under management total $395 billion, with roughly two-thirds of that amount going toward credit financing for middle-market businesses.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2023

However, Buffett does own shares of the stock via Berkshire's subsidiary, New England Asset Management (NEAM). That yield is so high in large part because Ares is a business development company (BDC). BDCs provide financing to small-to-medium-sized businesses. times forward earnings.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Ares ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Larger companies have also increasingly turned to direct lending for raising capital in part because of the speed in closing financing deals. Many banks have shied away from middle-market direct lending.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Instead, it's owned by Berkshire's subsidiary, New England Asset Management. Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). It provides financing to middle-market businesses that often encounter challenges securing capital from banks.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The business development company (BDC) offers a dividend yield of more than 9.6%. The BDC's net asset value per share also reached a record level in Q4. Just how good is business for Ares Capital these days? You'll find some members of that category that especially stand above the rest of the pack.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 1998, Berkshire Hathaway acquired reinsurance company General Re. Around three years earlier, General Re bought New England Asset Management (NEAM). NEAM offers asset management services to the insurance industry and manages a separate portfolio from Berkshire Hathaway's. of its total portfolio. of the total.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Not counting corporate-level write-downs, more than 80% of last year's pre-tax income came from the automobile industry, with more than two-thirds of it being driven by auto financing alone. That was an incredibly fortunate business mix in 2021 and then again in 2023, when demand for new cars was huge. That's big. It may prevent U.S.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 12, 2024

AT&T AT&T lowered its dividend payout in 2022 to adjust for the sale of its unpredictable media assets. Now that it's strictly a telecommunications business, the cash flows it uses to make dividend payments should be extra reliable. At recent prices, the stock offers a 5.2% dividend yield.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

That borrowers can secure loans through several non-bank models provides a wider range of competitive financing sources that strengthens our financial system. Those are the publicly traded asset classes that private credit is most comparable to. That’s because its net asset value dipped in 2022 and increased only 0.6%

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

We’re seeing a slow-grinding implosion of this titanic asset bubble that started in 2012,” says Dan Zwirn, CEO at Arena Investors. estimates private-market assets were $13.1 Apex Group, a provider of services to asset managers, has just refinanced a slug of debt with a $1.1 McKinsey and Co. trillion at the end of June 2023.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Scheme is not subject to any financing condition. This is all part of an asset allocation decision to diversify into agriculture as rates stay higher for longer. The SIA contains limited termination rights including that either party may terminate in the event of an unremedied material breach by the other party.

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

4 To discuss the opportunities in this rising asset class and how to navigate the benefits and challenges of higher-for-longer rates, I welcome, as indicated below, the perspectives of Jonathan Bock, Co-CEO of Blackstone’s Business Development Companies (BDCs) and Global Head of Market Research for Blackstone Credit.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As part of her new role, Arsov will promote engagement across MIS rating groups, including Financial Institutions, Corporate Finance, and Structured Finance, and will deepen existing analytical capabilities for business development companies, CLOs, and other private credit-related assets.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2025

Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC) , pays a forward dividend yield of 8.6%. BDCs typically provide financing to middle-market businesses with annual revenue ranging between $10 million and $1 billion. trillion in assets under management.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). As a BDC, Ares provides financing primarily to middle-market businesses with annual revenue between $10 million and $1 billion. Middle-market businesses are turning to BDCs like Ares for good reasons.

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