Investors

Fundraising dipped again in 2024 but large funds continue to increase their market share.

‘Junior capital offers delayed draw capacity, which is a critical source of funding for sponsors with buy-and-build investment strategies seeking to make post-closing acquisitions.’

As 2025 is ushered in, investors are reasonably confident about private debt’s prospects – but concerned that some problems have been masked.

New GPs face a tough task to attract investor interest, but there are ways in which they can maximise their prospects.

Blockchain and tokenisation can help to democratise private markets, and private debt is leading the way, explains Michael Johnson of Gen II.

What Article 8 classification means and why it may be important to take advantage of today’s rules before they become more strict, by Rachel Lowe and James Oussedik of Proskauer.

Accumulating new capital has been challenging over the last couple of years, but LPs now have the inclination and ability to make greater commitments.

COAERS is expected to approve a 10% allocation to private debt as part of an overhaul to focus on that asset class and real assets.

Evergreen funds are becoming an increasingly credible option within private credit. James Oussedik and Joshua Jones of Proskauer explain why, and provide different examples of how they work in practise.

The UK pension fund is about to close its second private debt fund, which it aims to scale to £500m, and is looking to consolidate GP partnerships.