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Rising rates means higher costs of debt: but there may be a solution in mezzanine financings. 

We talked to Joshua Liebow and Matt Szwarc, co-heads of junior credit at Manulife Investment Management, about why many private-equity backed companies are choosing the certainty of mezzanine debt in an uncertain macro environment.