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Leveraged Finance: State of the Market and Recent Developments

Download PDF Introduction After two years of limited activity due to uncertainty surrounding interest rate policies, large valuation gaps, and geopolitical tensions, the leveraged finance market saw a major recovery in 2024, marking its busiest year since 2021. The combined issuance volume of leveraged loans and high-yield bonds in the Read more…

By BSIC, 1 year6 April 2025 ago
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Unicorns are out of shape: Peloton Interactive IPO raises some concerns

Peloton Interactive Inc. [NASDAQ: PTON] – Market Cap as of 12/10/2019 $6.26bn   Introduction On September 26th, 2019, Peloton, an American exercise equipment and media company, went public on the Nasdaq raising $1.16bn via its IPO. The company raised this capital through floating 40 million new shares at $29, effectively Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years13 October 2019 ago
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Crushing the competition: EQT shares surge 25% in one of the most successful private equity listings of the decade

EQT AB [STO:EQT] – Market Cap as of 04/10/2019 SEK 83.58bn (USD 8.49bn) Introduction On Tuesday, September 24th 2019, the Swedish group EQT— the second largest Private Equity group in Europe — listed on the Stockholm Nasdaq in what was the biggest Private Equity listing of the past decade and Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years6 October 2019 ago
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Lyft-ing up or Falling Fast?: Lyft Becomes the First Rideshare Company to IPO

Lyft inc. [LYFT: NASDAQ] – Market Cap as of 5/4/2019 $21.28bn Introduction  On March 29, Lyft – a leading US ride-hailing company – went public on the Nasdaq. Its IPO price settled at the top end of the pricing range, with shares at $72 a piece valuing the company at Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years14 April 2019 ago

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We are thrilled to announce the new BSIC Board for We are thrilled to announce the new BSIC Board for the Fall 2026 semester!

Lukas Wacker - President
Davide Saccone - Vice President
Zeno Steffens - Head of Corporate Finance
Lovis Schmidt - Head of Markets
Neel Roy - Head of Quant
Charentz Hovnanian - Senior Advisor
Preslav Georgiev - Head of Operations
Anna Tinuper - Head of Digital

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BSIC Article of the Week: "Catching the Butterfly: BSIC Article of the Week: "Catching the Butterfly: A Relative Value Approach in OIS Curves"

When a yield curve misprice isn't random noise — it's a trade. We apply Principal Component Analysis to USD SOFR, EUR €STR, and GBP SONIA curves to reconstruct theoretical fair value, identify statistically significant dislocations, and pitch a live butterfly trade on the 6m GBP forward strip — all against the backdrop of a Bank of England caught between surging oil prices and a fragile disinflation path. 

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#bsic #finance #fixedincome #interestrates #yieldcurve #PCA #quantitativefinance #ratestrading #swaps #macroeconomics
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BSIC Article of the Week: "A Taste for Separation: BSIC Article of the Week: "A Taste for Separation: Analysing Unilever's Strategic Break-Up"

Unilever is separating its food business from its personal care empire in a $44.8bn deal with McCormick — a transaction nearly a decade in the making, structured through a Reverse Morris Trust to minimise taxes and maximise strategic focus. But with 65% of the consideration paid in McCormick stock and leverage climbing to 4.0x, the real question is whether this is a clean value unlock or a complex bet on execution. 

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#bsic #finance #unilever #mccormick #mergersandacquisitions #consumerstaples #spinoff #valuation #corporatestrategy #activistinvesting
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Navigating the Next Cycle: Dealmaking and Capital Navigating the Next Cycle: Dealmaking and Capital Flows in a New Market Regime — what an evening! 

A huge thank you to Niccolò Consonni (EQT Group), Andrea Simonetti (Gruppo Unipol), and Chengxue Chen (Lazard) for sharing their expertise at Bocconi Students Investment Club's latest speaker event.

The conversation around deal structures, capital allocation, and where markets are heading gave all of us a lot to think about. Thanks also to Professor Massimo Della Ragione for moderating such a dynamic discussion.

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BSIC Article of the Week: "Black Gold, Broken Stat BSIC Article of the Week: "Black Gold, Broken State: A Primer on Venezuela's Collapse and the Economics of Recovery"

Venezuela holds the world's largest proven oil reserves, yet has experienced one of the worst economic collapses of the 21st century — a paradox rooted not in resource scarcity, but in decades of institutional decay, fiscal mismanagement, and political capture of its oil sector.

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