News & Analysis

PDI Awards 2025: Europe winners

Winners in the Europe categories include Ares Management, Permira and Balbec Capital.

PDI Awards 2025: Americas winners

Apollo Global Management is crowned Lender of the Year, while Monroe Capital and Oak Hill Advisors triumph in other categories.

PDI Awards 2025: Global winners

A previous winner retakes the Global Fund Manager of the Year award.

PDI Annual Awards 2025: Winners revealed

We list all the winners of our annual accolades, with new categories focusing on the rise of asset-based finance and the growing role of placement agents.

LPs look past the negative headlines

There appears to be a disconnect between critical commentary in the mainstream press and private debt’s enduring appeal to investors. PDI gauges LP opinion.

The ABF pivot winning over US limited partners

Managers will expand their capabilities within asset-backed finance in 2026, but focus on partnerships with originators.

Fitch: Default events in January double last year’s average

There were 11 private credit defaults in January and 89 in the trailing 12-month period.

CalPERS wants its GPs to do better on transparency

More visibility on portfolio company data will help the $613.7bn US pension better manage its risk, according to CEO Marcie Frost.

Loan Note: The rise of the zombie funds; record year for emerging market private credit

The rise of the zombies is noted by Arctos’s Ian Charles. Also, record deployment in emerging market private credit last year, and new fund to be launched in Spain. Here’s today’s brief for our valued subscribers only.

Fairfax times the cycle with a bet on a manager intent on scaling its credit business

Kennedy Wilson has steadily built its real estate debt platform alongside its global equity presence ahead of its privatisation by the Canadian insurer.