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At least one observer criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission for permitting junk bond mutual funds to include noncash interest in their reported returns. Such funds, holding approximately one-third of outstanding junk bonds, appealed to investors looking for yield. Writing in 1989 in Barron’s, Louis Lowenstein argued that deferred interest bonds manufactured the desired yield for uninformed mutual fund shareholders: Assume that you own all of Federated Department Stores, with no debt at all.
2 Euphoria The history of fund-raising by what proved to be the largest arranger of leveraged buyouts, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts (KKR), offers an idea of the surge of interest in leveraged deals among equity investors. The firm had started in 1976 with $120,000 of the three partners’ money. The first investors in 1976 included Kravis’s father, Kohlberg’s cousin, a Pittsburgh venture capitalist, First Chicago’s venture capital subsidiary, and four other individual backers. The next round of investment in 1978 raised $30 million from such institutional investors as Allstate and Teachers Insurance as well as the venture capital subsidiaries of such banks as Citicorp, Continental Illinois, and Security Pacific.
But because Federated has promised to pay interest at the rate of $600 million a year, the accountants are allowing mutual funds and other institutional investors to tell the world that they are earning from Federated 50 percent more than Federated itself is earning. 22 Why the 1980s Stopped: Leveraging as a Mania 35 Positive Economic Feedback The typical financial mania spills over into the real economy by stimulating a spending boom of some kind. The bubble in Japanese land and share prices in the late 1980s certainly fit this general pattern.