In our view, 2024 could extend the trend of rewarding years for investors in direct lending strategies. High interest rates in 2023 cooled deal activity, which had hit record levels in 2021 and 2022.

Direct lending funds had a higher internal rate of return than mezzanine and distressed debt private credit funds across most time frames for periods ended Sept. 30. Direct lending’s five-year IRR was ...

Q. I have prepared projections for a proposed project, and I want to calculate the internal rate of return. Instead of using Excel’s IRR function, should I use simple math formulas so others can ...

Have you ever looked at your rate of return and wondered how to interpret it? How do you know whether your portfolio performance is good, bad, or somewhere in between? And how do you go about ...

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Required rate of return (RRR) gives investors a benchmark to determine the minimum acceptable return on an investment considering the risk involved. By calculating RRR, investors can assess whether an ...