The creative minds on Wall Street have been manufacturing new financial products for decades. In the old days it was things like "no load" mutual funds, ETFs, the 60/40 allocation, and MLPs. These days it's stuff like Fractional shares, Single Stock Notes, commission free trading, self-directed equity offerings, and all manner of ESG strategies.

During the month of June, we saw a significant increase in deal-flow from the previous month. With over a dozen new deals on the book, see each transaction in our database.

While it has not yet come to that point, Ardmore Shipping's shares, like its peers, have been trading, over the past six months, at price levels which reflect a significant discount to net asset value ("NAV").

If we had only bought the shares.

Last week, Nordic American Tankers Ltd ("NAT") announced that it had concluded the financing of the two Suezmax tankers it had ordered back in September. Under construction at Samsung Heavy Industries, the two vessels have a cargo carrying capacity of 158,000 DWT and are scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2022.

August is a seasonally weak month for deal making and this year in general was no exception with just $635 million of deals recorded...

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Dissecting the top movers.

Last week, Seaspan Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atlas Corp., announced the closing of its sustainability-linked loan ("SLL"), the first of its kind in the containership leasing industry.

Current markets mean that there will, once again in the maritime industry, be a strong restructuring focus. In this webinar...

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The $1 billion difference.

We dissect the data.