secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund (MSDL)
CIK:        0001782524
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-03-01T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-24-029553
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

MSDL reports Q4 2023 NII of $0.67/share, NAV of $20.67; declares Q1 dividend $0.50 plus specials
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- Net investment income $55.5M, or $0.67/share; NAV per share $20.67, up from $20.57.
- Debt-to-equity dropped to 0.87x from 1.16x; total investments at fair value $3.19B.
- IPO raised ~$97M net proceeds; board approved $100M stock repurchase program below NAV.
- Regular Q1 dividend $0.50/share, plus two special dividends of $0.10 tied to IPO lock-up releases.
- New advisory agreement includes fee waivers through Jan 2025 and incentive fee lookback from June 2024.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1782524/000110465924029553/0001104659-24-029553-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1782524/000110465924029553/tm247573d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-029553

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