The UK’s Phoenix Group is at the forefront of using private markets as a performance driver. Plus: Configure survey identifies key traits in a borrower-friendly lending market; and Blackstone makes new senior hire.
8 min read · 06 March 2025
The industry wants to invest in foreign private debt, and given its $4trn-odd in assets, even a small allocation would be a very big deal. Sun Life’s Ben Deng, former CIO of two of China’s biggest insurers, discusses the landscape.
4 min read · 06 March 2025
‘We took a long journey of three years of technology investments and regulatory approvals, and today we are the first credit fund approved in Portugal,’ says LX Partners’ Founding partner Vittorio Calvi.
5 min read · 05 March 2025
Head of origination says ‘protections enshrined by the loan documents have gotten so bad that sponsors and management teams have much more leeway to take value from creditors’.
7 min read · 04 March 2025
Vermont Pension Investment Commission was recommended by RVK to commit to Asset Based Credit Evergreen Fund.
1 min read · 04 March 2025
More than half of the maturing loans have extension options, which might push refinancing activities into next year, according to a report from Trepp.
2 min read · 04 March 2025
‘You don’t see these sorts of market corrections very often,’ said Ludo Mackenzie, co-head of real estate debt at the firm.
3 min read · 04 March 2025
Marks spoke to the board in January, following the firm’s decision in March 2024 to increase its private credit allocation from 5% to 8%.
3 min read · 04 March 2025
It is vital to dispel misconceptions surrounding SRTs and highlight their importance to banking and the global economy.
3 min read · 04 March 2025
Santa Fe-based sovereign wealth fund commits to a fund managed by Castlelake.
1 min read · 03 March 2025
