High-yield/macroeconomics (fka YIELD)

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Was wondering if anyone had a strong opinion about any of these picks before I add them to the high-yield list:

MCG Capital Corporation (MCGC) 12.5% yield

http://www.mcgcapital.com

MCG Capital Corporation is principal investment firm specializing in middle market companies. It targets its investments in small to mid sized companies. The firm prefers to invest in acquisitions, growth financings, and leveraged buyouts. It does not invest in highly cyclical and volatile industry sectors and businesses with extraordinary volatility exposure. The firm seeks to invest in companies having revenues between $20 million and $200 million and EBITDA between $3 million and $25 million. It firm seeks to invest in the form of senior debt, including amortizing, bullet maturity term loans, and revolving credit facilities; second lien debt, that includes term loans on sole source and participant basis; secured and unsecured subordinate loans structured as current interest, deferred interest, and equity linked components; and equity that includes minority equity investments. MCG Capital Corporation was founded in 1990 by Mr. Bryan J. Mitchell and B. Hagen Saville and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

GSC Investment Group (GNV) 12.4% yield
Significant insider purchases recently

http://www.gscinvestmentcorp.com

GSC Investment Corp. is a business development company. The public investment firm specializes in buyout, acquisition, growth, recapitalization, and note financing transactions of middle market companies. It typically seeks to invest in companies that have an EBITDA between $5 million and $50 million. The firm structures its investments as debt and equity investments primarily by investing in first and second lien loans, mezzanine debt, senior secured bonds, unsecured bonds, and preferred and common equity. GSC Investment Corp. is based in New York, New York.

Technology Investment Capital Corp (TICC) 12.0% yield

http://www.ticc.com

Technology Investment Capital Corp. (TICC), a business development company, operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. The company primarily invests in debt and/or equity securities of technology-related companies that operate in the software, Internet, information technology services, media, telecommunications, semiconductors, hardware, and technology-enabled services sectors. Technology Investment Management, LLC serves as the investment adviser to TICC. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.