Which private-credit grade to trust · grade as of 2026-10-16
Out-of-filer grade: leave-one-BDC-out AUC 0.5824 on the filer's own disclosed non-accrual label and 0.6790 on the wider label that also counts a mark below 0.85x amortized cost. The disclosed-non-accrual grade is the better-founded of the two, because that label is the filer's own footnote and no duplicated position can inflate it.
Leave-one-BDC-out AUC 0.58 [95% CI 0.53, 0.64] on 126 disclosed non-accrual events, and 0.68 [95% CI 0.65, 0.70] on 649 events of the wider label (Hanley-McNeil; assumes independent borrowers, so the true interval is wider). This is a concurrent impairment classifier, not a probability of default.
The model scores 3,003 of the 3,034 borrowers in the panel and refuses 31 — 1.0% — by name: a refused borrower's filing discloses neither a spread nor an exposure amount the model may use. Share and unit counts are never read as money, a nil-percentage dash is never read as zero, an instrument line that has lost its issuer is not counted as a borrower, and a name that wraps an instrument around a named issuer is resolved back to that issuer.
BDC panel as of 2026-06-30 filings (filed 2026-07-29 to 2026-08-20), 7,828 tranches over 3,034 borrowers from 14 BDC filers.
strict (leave-one-filer-out, disclosed non-accrual): 0.5824 on 126 events · union (leave-one-filer-out, non-accrual or mark below 0.85×): 0.6790 on 649 events · as of 2026-10-16
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The private-credit output is a disclosed-impairment score. It is not a validated probability of default. It reads impairment already disclosed in the same filing that supplies its features, so there is no forward observation window and no horizon attaches to it anywhere in the product.