Purna Bhudia, head of credit at the Pension Protection Fund, talked to PDI about how the fund approaches credit investing and how to manage the ups and downs of credit investing.
9 min read · 26 November 2019
From how distressed should be a ‘grind-it-out’ strategy, to making sure GPs are ‘cycle-proofing’ their documents, this is what participants were talking about.
5 min read · 21 November 2019
Relative to its peers in private equity and other asset classes, private debt is behind the curve on ESG. It is catching up, but with various approaches and motivations.
3 min read · 21 November 2019
Investors at PDI’s annual London conference voiced appreciation for managers that have been in the trenches and have the battle scars to show it.
2 min read · 21 November 2019
DC schemes often falsely assume that regulations are preventing them from accessing private markets.
3 min read · 20 November 2019
There is the same kind of dislocation in the market that enabled Canada’s PSP to make high returning investments when it first launched into private debt.
2 min read · 20 November 2019
The SME lending specialist is seeking up to €150m with the backing of the EIF as part of the Juncker Plan.
2 min read · 14 November 2019
StepStone partner John Bohill on the architect career plans that crumbled, the challenges of cycling and lessons learned in the brave new world of private debt
3 min read · 14 November 2019
Private debt is making gains in institutions’ global portfolios, but they have some concerns about market conditions.
4 min read · 12 November 2019
