Personal debt fund

Does anybody here have experience setting up a small high-yield fund / LLC to invest his own money? I am thinking about something along these lines:

• Limited liability structure (trying to make this non-recourse)
• $4mm invested in 10 to 20 high-yield corporate bonds (say blended 8% yield)
• ~$1mm in equity contributed
• $3mm (?) borrowed

I’d like to understand how a lender would look at providing leverage for the fund, i.e. interest charged, indicative debt to equity ratio, security package (inc. personal guarantees), need to re-equitize if debt trades below certain thresholds, etc. Also, what banks would be the most likely lenders (I assume those with strong wealth management practices, but I may be wrong).

On paper the returns look really attractive, but I’m sure that there must be a catch somewhere…

 

You will not get 75% ltv on 8% yielding debt from a bank as an individual investor at a rate that is not dilutive to your equity absent some personal guarantee (and only then if you have a lot of other assets)

High yield is a very tough asset class for individual invesors or small players, especially in the portion of the universe that yields ~8% in this rate environment. On a $4mm portfolio of 10-20 names you will get destroyed by transaction costs and bid/ask spread on trades

 

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