Firms are bifurcating towards either serving large private equity-backed deals or looking at more niche specialist concerns in order to stand out in a competitive market.
5 min read · 29 December 2025
The third vintage is more than halfway to its $5bn target fundraise, filings show.
1 min read · 23 December 2025
The New York-based manager was targeting $2bn for Fund VII, but has amassed more with a boost from the strategy’s anticipated leverage.
2 min read · 18 December 2025
The fund is part of a joint venture with SMBC and aims to have €5bn of total deployable capital.
1 min read · 11 December 2025
The fund, launched in 2023, exceeded s $4.5bn target, and will focus on both public and private firms.
2 min read · 10 December 2025
MLEND will be available to clients of financial advisers through US-based RIA and broker-dealer networks
2 min read · 10 December 2025
Despite low payment defaults, signs of stress could see more firms get into difficulty next year, according to KBRA. Also, Andalusian provides a debt package for a music rights platform. Here’s today’s brief for our valued subscribers only.
5 min read · 08 December 2025
The UK’s central bank has published details of its upcoming stress test of private credit markets and confirmed some of the firms taking part.
2 min read · 04 December 2025
Peter Cashion, managing director for sustainable investments at the Californian state employees’ pension plan, is encouraging the real assets and private debt teams to engage with more emerging and diverse fund managers.
3 min read · 02 December 2025
The failures of First Brands and Tricolor has put due diligence under the spotlight. In The Private Debt Investor Podcast, Matthias Kirchgaessner of Plexus Research and Jiri Krol of the Alternative Credit Council debate whether private debt has problems to confront.
1 min read · 01 December 2025
