Fund Finance

Eagle Point’s latest closed fund invests in the debt securities issued by BDCs, credit funds and mortgage REITs.

Investors list the main causes of friction with private equity funds, in exclusive research released ahead of PEI’s NEXUS event in Florida.

Both in terms of its use cases and sources of capital, fund finance is stepping into a new era. Adam Summers and Ariel Zell, co-heads of Fried Frank’s Fund Finance Practice, alongside their new partner John Oberdorf, explain this evolution.

Fundraising hit a new record in 2025, but only just!

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.

Germany’s Perpetual and Lithuania’s Willgrow are targeting new or niche areas of illiquid credit, as double-digit returns get harder to come by from the asset class.

Entries for the PDI Awards close on 14 November.

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

Innovations in the private credit market that allow borrowers to achieve high levels of flexibility in their loans represent the next stage of the industry’s evolution, say Proskauer’s Philip Bowden and Alex Griffith, and Ares Management’s Michael Dennis.

The instruments bear similarities to NAV loans and dividend recapitalisations and are increasingly intriguing to LPs.