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From sustainability-linked loans to net-zero targets, ESG leaders and senior executives in the private debt industry share their takes on the future of responsible investing. By Mina Tumay.
Leading asset class professionals explain their concerns (and offer reasons why things may not be all that bad).
Alternative lenders will take the lead in financing the retrofitting of Europe’s commercial real estate stock, the manager argues.
The opportunity set for private credit appears to be becoming more favourable, despite the challenges of inflation, tight labour markets and rising interest rates, say Adams Street Partners’ Bill Sacher, Fred Chung and Justin Lawrence.
Pensioenfonds Detailhandel, a pension fund for the retail sector in the Netherlands, is backing the French fund manager’s impact lending strategy.
With ESG criteria increasingly being incorporated into loans, fund managers are coming under pressure to meet regulations such as SFDR and the EU Taxonomy
A rising focus on sustainability is creating opportunities in private debt markets, with scale being a key differentiator, say Daniel Pietrzak and Matthieu Boulanger, KKR’s co-heads of Private Credit.
Many GPs have had a good crisis so far, but they need to be alive to LP sentiment on the big issues of the day.
Investors have concerns about what is happening in the broadly syndicated loan space. The private debt market must learn the lessons.
Private debt accounts for as much as 45% of total commitments, the highest among strategies