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Private Credit, Meet “Higher for Longer”

Blackstone

From March 2009 when the S&P 500 traded at 13x earnings to August 2020 when it peaked at 23x, a passive investor in the market earned 16% per annum. Figure 8: Average Financial Leverage 17 Ratio of Gross Debt and Deposits to Shareholders’ Equity Overall, pressure in a higher-for-longer rate environment is building.

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Author Lawrence McDonald Chats With "Motley Fool Money"

The Motley Fool

There's been a lot of different sectors, has been a capital retention management style where companies are holding capital and a lot of their building up cash and they want to return that cash to shareholders. We've been too much so and I think over the last 10 years, too much show on the buyback programs.

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