Ninepoint-Monroe U.S. Private Debt Fund
Why Invest in Ninepoint-Monroe U.S. Private Debt Fund
- U.S. Direct Lending – Primarily cash flow based loans to U.S. lower mid-market companies with floating interest rates over LIBOR with an interest rate floor to hedge against interest rate risk.
- Credit First, Zero Loss Mentality – Focus on structure, downside risk and principal protection.
- Senior Secured – Security interests are primarily 1st lien and at the top of the capital structure.
- Access to U.S. Mid-Market– U.S. mid-market businesses generate USD$6.0 trillion equating to the world’s 3rd largest economy with loans exhibiting lower default rates and better recoveries when compared to traditional broadly syndicated markets.
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6 Reasons to Consider Monroe U.S. Private Debt Fund
1. Significant Opportunity
200,000 companies make up the group of U.S. middle-market companies, each with annual revenues between $10 million and $1 billion.
Middle Market firms contribute nearly $9.3 trillion to the national economy annually and equate to the World’s 3rd largest economy. The sheer size of this market makes it a significant opportunity for private credit lenders.
Source: National Center for the Middle Market, Q3’18 Middle Market Indicator, The Middle Market Power Index: American Express and Dun & Bradstreet, World Bank Group, 2017 GDP
2. High Demand for Loans
Growing middle market companies generate approximately one third of private sector GDP and employ roughly 47.9 million people in the U.S. Monroe Capital provides capital that allows middle market companies to:
- Solve for generational or family transfers of ownership
- Fund merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions
- Invest in property, equipment, and other capital expenditures
- Increase working capital
71% of mid-market firms have been in business 20+ years
3. Portfolio Stability: Lower Default Rates
Middle market loans have lower defaults and similar recoveries compared to broadly syndicated transactions due to:
- Stronger covenant packages
- More frequent financial reporting
- Higher excess cash flow sweep requirements
Increased fragmentation in lower middle market credit has resulted in less competition, improved pricing and lower leverage for lenders.
4. Experienced Advisor
The Advisor, Monroe Capital, has provided private credit solutions to borrowers in the U.S. and Canada since 2004
Chicago-based, team of approx. 100
- 7 origination offices: Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco
National Deal Sourcing Platform
- Large referral network of over 10,000 firms and key individuals throughout the United States and Canada
5. Directly originated, senior-secured loans
Top of the capital structure with a senior lien on assets and often a pledge
of company stock
- $10-100M individual loan investment size
- Average 70-90 loans in portfolio
- Max. 20% exposure to any one investment
- Historical avg. loan length: 20-36 months
6. Added Oversight
Private debt is a loan-by-loan business. Ninepoint supplements fund-level oversight with an in-house Due Diligence & Oversight Team that has over 15 years of experience in corporate lending and loan origination.
Supporting our Oversight Team is BlackRock’s Aladdin. Aladdin provides state-of-the-art risk management tools for our Oversight Team.
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Fund Details
Fund Type Open-ended unincorporated investment trust Inception Date April 9, 2019 Registered Tax Plan Status Not Eligible Management Fee Series F: 0.10%
All Classes are charged a 1.55% advisory fee at Master Fund LevelPerformance Fee†† 20% over 7% Preferred††† Minimum Initial Investment $25,000 USD accredited
$150,000 USD non-accredited*Minimum Subsequent Investment $5,000 USD Minimum Investment Term 24 Months including notice period Redemptions Quarterly, with 180 days notice† Valuations Quarterly
* $150,000 for non-individual.
† If during any redemption period, the Manager has received from one or more Unitholders an acceptable Redemption Notice to redeem in aggregate 3% or more of the outstanding Units, the Manager may, in its discretion, choose to meet such redemptions on a pro rata basis effective as of such quarter-end and to meet such excess redemptions on a pro rata basis effective as of subsequent quarter-ends, subject to the application of the 3% limitation for each such subsequent quarter-end.
†† The Fund may invest up to 25% of the total assets in any one issuer at any time prior to the one-year anniversary for the initial closing of the Fund.
†††Fund returns between 7% and 8.75% are payable to the General Partner as a Performance Allocation plus applicable taxes. In addition. 20% of returns in excess of 8.75% are payable to the General Partner as a Performance Allocation.
Are You An Accredited Investor?
The minimum subscription amount is $150,000.00 in all jurisdictions, unless you meet the definition of "accredited investor" under National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions.
If you meet the definition "accredited investor" (see below), you may invest a minimum of $25,000. Please consult the Offering Memorandum to determine your qualification status. Investment Advisors should consult their company's internal policies.
The Subscriber, or one or more beneficial purchasers for whom the Subscriber is acting, is (i) a resident of, or the purchase and sale of securities to the Subscriber is otherwise subject to the securities legislation of one of the following: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Québec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, North West Territories, or Nunavut, and the Subscriber is (and will at the time of acceptance of the Subscription be) an accredited investor within the meaning of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions ("NI 45-106") because the Subscriber is one of the following:
| (a) | a Canadian financial institution, or a Schedule III bank; |
| (b) | the Business Development Bank of Canada incorporated under the Business Development Bank of Canada Act (Canada); |
| (c) | a subsidiary of any person referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b), if the person owns all of the voting securities of the subsidiary, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors of that subsidiary; |
| (d) | a person registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as an adviser or dealer, other than a person registered solely as a limited market dealer under one or both of the Securities Act (Ontario) or the Securities Act (Newfoundland and Labrador); |
| (e) | an individual registered or formerly registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as a representative of a person referred to in paragraph (d); |
| (f) | the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada, or any crown corporation, agency or wholly owned entity of the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada; |
| (g) | a municipality, public board or commission in Canada and a metropolitan community, school board, the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l'île de Montréal or an intermunicipal management board in Québec; |
| (h) | any national, federal, state, provincial, territorial or municipal government of or in any foreign jurisdiction, or any agency of that government; |
| (i) | a pension fund that is regulated by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Canada), a pension commission or similar regulatory authority of a jurisdiction of Canada; |
| (j) | an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, beneficially owns financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that before taxes, but net of any related liabilities, exceeds $1,000,000; |
| (k) | an individual whose net income before taxes exceeded $200,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years or whose net income before taxes combined with that of a spouse exceeded $300,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years and who, in either case, reasonably expects to exceed that net income level in the current calendar year; (Note: If individual accredited investors wish to purchase through wholly-owned holding companies or similar entities, such purchasing entities must qualify under section (t) below, which must be initialled.) |
| (l) | an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, has net assets of at least $5,000,000; |
| (m) | a person, other than an individual or investment fund, that has net assets of at least $5,000,000 as shown on its most recently prepared financial statements; |
| (n) | an investment fund that distributes or has distributed its securities only to:
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| (o) | an investment fund that distributes or has distributed securities under a prospectus in a jurisdiction of Canada for which the regulator or, in Québec, the securities regulatory authority, has issued a receipt; |
| (p) | a trust company or trust corporation registered or authorized to carry on business under the Trust and Loan Companies Act (Canada) or under comparable legislation in a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction, acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by the trust company or trust corporation, as the case may be; |
| (q) | a person acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by that person, if that person:
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| (r) | a registered charity under the Income Tax Act (Canada) that, in regard to the trade, has obtained advice from an eligibility adviser or an adviser registered under the securities legislation of the jurisdiction of the registered charity to give advice on the securities being traded; |
| (s) | an entity organized in a foreign jurisdiction that is analogous to any of the entities referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) or paragraph (i) in form and function; |
| (t) | a person in respect of which all of the owners of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors; |
| (u) | an investment fund that is advised by a person registered as an adviser or a person that is exempt from registration as an adviser, or; |
| (v) | a person that is recognized or designated by the securities regulatory authority or, except in Ontario and Québec, the regulator as an accredited investor. |
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