Andy Thomson
Protecting certain types of investors might come at the price of taking away one of private debt’s key competitive advantages. City of Stamford investment and pension expert Eric Newman ponders the dilemma.
Maryland pension executive Mike Fang will be one of the leading investor lights at our PDI New York Forum next week. His organisation has a reason for avoiding plain vanilla lending.
Florian Hofer of Golding Capital Partners will be marking private debt’s scorecard at our PDI Germany Forum in Munich. Resilience through crises is a factor in its favour.
From modest beginnings, the relationship between private debt and ESG is gathering momentum. Priscilla Schnepper of the European Investment Fund will discuss key developments at our PDI Germany Forum.
The M&A market is proving sluggish, meaning credit funds reliant on the private equity-sponsored arena are facing a challenge. Creativity is the way to respond.
Andrew Bellis, head of private debt at Partners Group, discusses the complementary nature of the broadly syndicated loan and private debt markets.
Concerns over changes that may be made to capital gains tax have put private equity firms on red alert – with knock-on effects for the private debt industry. PDI discusses developments with Claire Madden of Connection Capital.
Credit is a huge market overall in Asia-Pacific but private debt represents only a small proportion. Andrew Schantz of Bain Capital outlines the opportunity ahead.
Infrastructure debt bucked the slow fundraising trend that restrained many parts of the private markets in 2023.
It’s a topic that will be under consideration at our upcoming PDI Germany Forum: the likelihood of risk-averse investors being tempted by private debt’s ‘next big thing’.