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Blue Owl Capital – Shares of the alternative asset manager dropped nearly 10% after the company announced the sale of $1.4 billion in loans from three of its private debt funds at 99.7% of par value.
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Michelle Fox,darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 19 Feb. 2026
While short-term bets such as Kane and van Riemsdyk can pay dividends to fill specific needs, getting par value out of a longer-term deal is exceedingly rare.
—Max Bultman, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
These market prices must be multiplied by an inflation factor, and the bottom line on a ticket for 100 bonds (that is, $100,000 of par value when issued) would have been $96,470.
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Unlike ETFs, which always trade very close to par value, CEFs can (and regularly do) trade at different values on the market in relation to their underlying portfolios—a measure called the discount to net asset value (NAV).
—Michael Foster, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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Michelle Fox,darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 19 Feb. 2026
While short-term bets such as Kane and van Riemsdyk can pay dividends to fill specific needs, getting par value out of a longer-term deal is exceedingly rare.
—Max Bultman, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
These market prices must be multiplied by an inflation factor, and the bottom line on a ticket for 100 bonds (that is, $100,000 of par value when issued) would have been $96,470.
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Unlike ETFs, which always trade very close to par value, CEFs can (and regularly do) trade at different values on the market in relation to their underlying portfolios—a measure called the discount to net asset value (NAV).
—Michael Foster, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Par value.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/par%20value. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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