Risk: The investments may have low liquidity which often causes the value of these investments to be less predictable. In extreme cases, the may not be able to realise the investment at the latest market price or at a price considered fair.
The Cliffwater Direct Lending Index (CDLI) is an index that assists investors to better understand private credit as an asset class. The CDLI seeks to measure the unlevered, gross of fees performance of U.S. middle market corporate loans, as represented by the underlying assets of Business Development Companies ("BDCs"), including both exchange-traded and unlisted BDCs, subject to certain eligibility criteria. The CDLI is an asset-weighted index that is calculated on a quarterly basis using financial statements and other information contained in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filings of all eligible BDCs. Eligibility is set as all assets held by BDCs that (1) are regulated by the SEC as a BDC under the Investment Company Act of 1940; (2) have a substantial majority (approximately 75%) of reported total assets represented by direct loans made to corporate borrowers, as categorized by each BDC and subject to Cliffwater's discretion, and (3) file SEC form 10-Q (or 10-K, as applicable) within 75 (or 90) calendar days following the current Valuation Date. If a BDC meets the eligibility criteria, but has not filed its report on Form 10-K or 10-Q with the SEC at the time the index is reconstituted, asset information from its report will be included in the index at the time of the next reconstitution. This information is derived from sources that are considered reliable, but BlackRock does not guarantee the veracity, currency, completeness or accuracy of this information.
The Cliffwater Direct Lending Index (CDLI) is included within this document to demonstrate how private markets perform differently from public markets during the same time period. Note that the indices contain several differences in the way that they are calculated, including the following, and therefore may not represent a fully accurate representation of the private/public credit market. The CDLI is an asset-weighted index based off of quarterly SEC filings required of BDCs, whose primary asset holdings are U.S. middle market corporate loans. SEC filing and transparency requirements eliminate common biases of survivorship and self-selection. The index returns are generally published 75 days after calendar quarter-end. The public indices are rebalanced regularly, typically monthly. The public indices are market-value weighted. Cliffwater's index is based off of SEC filings with transparency requirements. The CDLI is calculated using financial statements and other filings for the eligible BDCs (so the index's figures are based on the BDCs' underlying holdings), thus making it unlevered and gross of fees. BDCs whose filings are the source of the CDLI are regulated by the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is representative of the U.S. investment grade taxable bond market.
The Bloomberg US Corporate High Yield Index measures the USD-denominated, high yield, fixed-rate corporate bond market.
The S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index is designed to reflect the performance the U.S. leveraged loan market.
The Burgiss Private Equity Manager Universe (BMU), contains 5,341 private equity funds (vintages 1978-2022) as of October 2022 with 30/22 performance data (most recent performance data available). All vintages were included. All private equity sub-strategies in the BMU were included e.g., Equity Generalist, Equity Venture Capital Generalist, Equity Venture Capital Late Stage, Equity Expansion Capital, Equity Buyout, Equity Venture Capital Early Stage and Unknown as well as Equity Unknown. The BMU reflects quarterly time-weighted returns. The BMU is sourced from quarterly unaudited and annual audited financial statements that private investment fund managers produce for their fund investors. Therefore, there may be survivorship bias given that fund managers have discretion to report, or to discontinue reporting for various reasons (e.g. due to liquidation) and therefore may reflect a bias towards funds with track records of success. To protect the confidentiality of individual funds and their underlying portfolio investments, the published benchmark statistics reports contain only aggregate information. Therefore, the BMU is not transparent and cannot be independently verified given that it does not identify the funds included by name. Private investments in the BMU are typically illiquid. Additionally, any updates to historical data to this data universe, which can include adding a fund and its performance history to the database ("backfills") and/or updating past information for an existing fund due to late-arriving, updated, or refined information, would be reflected when that group is published for the next performance. The Burgiss Private I Universe Analytics tool recalculates the data each time a new fund is added, therefore the historical performance of the data is not fixed, cannot be replicated, and will differ over time from the data presented in this communication.
The S&P 500 Index is composed of 500 large-capitalization exchange-traded U.S. companies.
The MSCI World Index captures large and mid cap representation across 23 Developed Markets (DM) countries. With 1,540 constituents, the index covers approximately 85% of the free float adjusted market capitalization in each country.
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