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Asset-backed finance: Vast opportunity is changing the conversationIt is estimated that the ABF universe totals about $19trn, versus about $1.7trn for direct lending.
Insurance capital: Rich rewards for those that can step upA huge pool of insurance industry money could be headed for private debt but there are many levels of complexity for fund managers to navigate. Insurance and debt insiders talk to about the potential benefits and challenges of partnering up.
Cliffwater highlights opportunity in private credit over publicThe adviser and fund manager utilises new unlevered net-of-fees index to highlight disparity in returns.
Blackstone registers multi-asset credit fund with SECThe interval fund seeks to invest across the manager’s credit platform.
Dwight Scott, of GSO and Blackstone, retiresThe retirement comes not quite a year after the industry veteran became chairman of Blackstone Credit and Insurance.
- Credit and insurance power Blackstone’s $40bn Q2 inflows
Total credit AUM increased to $330bn with inflows of $18.6bn in the quarter.
Blackstone hires Dickson to lead client relationsThe former global head of investment banking at Citi will head a new group within the Credit & Insurance platform.
Marathon Asset Management and Webster Bank form private credit ventureThe partnership is yet another in a raft of link-ups between a bank and a private credit manager in the last year.
Nassau and Golub form new strategic alliancePartnership exemplifies recent trend of insurance and private debt firms converging to form synergies.
Loan Note: In defence of private market performance; Arizona hands AXA IM Alts an SRT mandateCliffwater highlights outperformance of private markets versus public; Arizona hands significant risk transfer mandate to AXA IM Alts; and Blackstone makes double hire.