Twelve months of interest paid on time, then the extension fee hit and the math changed
A bridge fund held one loan that represented 18 percent of the portfolio by committed capital. The borrower missed stabilization, requested a six-month extension, and the fund granted it with a 1.5 percent extension fee added to the outstanding balance rather than collected in cash. On the surface the quarterly report still showed the loan as performing and the distribution continued. What the report did not flag was that the extension fee was now accruing income the fund had not received, and the manager's promote was calculating against it. A 25k allocation in that fund was earning a stated 9.2 percent while the actual cash yield for that quarter was closer to 7.1 percent, because one large loan had shifted from paying to accruing and the distribution was being partially supported by return of capital from other repayments in the book. The loan eventually paid off at par including the fee, so on a total-return line the investor came out whole, but eleven months of distributions had included more return of capital than interest, with no line in the quarterly report that said so plainly. The number that would have flagged it earliest was not the headline yield but the cash interest collected divided by total interest accrued, a ratio that disappeared from the supplement in the quarter the extension was granted. What does the debt fund you are looking at actually report at the loan level when an extension is granted, and does it distinguish cash collected from accrued income anywhere in the supplement?