The second annual Private Debt Investor Seoul Forum featured a bevy of lessons for credit managers about fundraising and engaging with investors in Korea.
3 min read · 08 November 2019
When Japanese and Korean investors tell GPs to invest resources in their respective countries, those managers should listen.
2 min read · 07 November 2019
The World Bank unit is de-risking investments as it pulls blue-chip investors into its emerging markets platform. Adalla Kim reports
2 min read · 07 November 2019
The quest for yield has caused many of Japan’s institutional investors to begin wading into private debt.
3 min read · 05 November 2019
Investors are increasingly looking for more interesting returns which fit between the extremes of fairly safe senior debt and high risk strategies, according to Rede Partners’ Alastair Baird
3 min read · 04 November 2019
Two Japanese insurance giants – Dai-ichi Life and Nippon Life – have broadened their infrastructure debt scope from anchor investments in funds to making direct structured loans. Adalla Kim reports
4 min read · 04 November 2019
A defensive portfolio will thrive whatever the wider economy has in store, says Paul Johnson, partner at EQT Credit
6 min read · 01 November 2019
As the private credit markets continue to expand in Europe, William Nicoll, M&G Investments’ head of institutional fixed income, says investors will do well to remember opportunities that exist beyond direct lending
6 min read · 01 November 2019
Ireland’s new Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2019 should appeal to both investors and managers, says SANNE’s James Kay-Hards
4 min read · 01 November 2019
Institutional investors in favour of sponsor-backed, syndicated deals have typically overlooked the lower end of the private debt universe, but the European Investment Fund’s Marco Natoli and Francesco Battazzi believe that will change
6 min read · 01 November 2019