Barron’s Cites Highland’s Research on Credit Versus Private Equity

Barron’s examines how the best returns from private equity, in fact, may not come from the equity but from investing in the debt used to finance their deals, using Highland Capital Management’s January 2012 Newsletter as the basis for their story. Barron’s article explores Highland’s research that identifies that investing in the debt of large cap LBO companies has the potential to generate more attractive returns than private equity funds, with greater security due to the higher position debt holds in the capital structure of these companies.

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