Direct lending

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Why sustainability-linked loans should be a talking point

For borrowers and their sponsors, SLLs are a direct way of ensuring ESG integration is a lever for financial value.

Derivative Path: Private credit grows to embrace hedging strategies

Hedge management is increasingly becoming a core strategy for managers seeking to better handle risk, says Brett Morrell, head of risk solutions at Derivative Path

Ares CEO says it avoids trade finance, seeks to reassure on credit cycle

Michael Arougheti, Ares’ CEO, views subprime lender collapses as ‘idiosyncratic and isolated’, not signifying a turn in the credit cycle.

Manulife’s asset management unit takes 75% stake in Comvest

Manulife | Comvest Credit Partners will have $18.4 billion in AUM, as Canadian insurer continues snapping up assets.

Rising stars on the future of sustainability in private markets

Up-and-coming talent from across PEI Group’s under-40 lists share the sustainability and impact trends that are gaining momentum in alternatives.

Private capital’s role in the fight against climate change

As the all-important 2030 deadline to limit global warming looms, are private markets on track to help meet the world’s critical climate needs?

Alternatives managers change tack on ESG comms

As anti-ESG rhetoric in the US intensifies, private markets players appear to be dialling down their messaging, but not their actions.

Sustainability: Managers double down on value creation and metrics

After an era of exuberance, expansion and ‘rockstar’ roles, sustainability in private markets is being more closely tethered to value creation.

Apogem Capital: Taking the long view on private debt

Lower mid-market direct lending provides investors with exposure to parts of the real economy that are underrepresented in public markets and at an earlier stage of value creation, say Apogem Capital’s Josh Niedner and Rob Douglass.