Talk of how to respond to a downturn was on the agenda at our recent London event, amid scepticism that fund managers were sufficiently well prepared.
3 min read · 28 November 2019
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
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
John Wills of MetLife Investment Management charts the rise of a market investors are flocking to on an increasingly international basis.
4 min read · 11 November 2019
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 quest for yield has caused many of Japan’s institutional investors to begin wading into private debt.
3 min read · 05 November 2019
