Buysiders Start Year on Cautious Note

January 26, 2009

Private placement investors sounded a conservative tone last week at the Private Placements Industry Forum in Boca Raton, Fla., saying they are mostly interested in NAIC-1 deals from non-cyclical industries, with a bias toward deals from the U.S. and familiar regions like the U.K. and Western Europe. Though caution was indeed the watchword among buysiders, most said they would look selectively at deals further down the credit ladder and farther from home.

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