Fund Management

Do customisable models incorporating both public and private markets exposure represent the next step in the democratisation of alternatives?

Companies are staying private for longer, but our economies need fully functioning and vibrant public markets as well.

Thanks to the evolution of a robust private market ecosystem that includes private credit, secondaries and unprecedented amounts of capital, companies are growing bigger and staying private for longer than ever before. Nevertheless, the dream to go public is still very much alive.

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

The incumbent has left the Hong Kong-based firm, which has a $46.5bn investment portfolio, after a seven-year tenure.

Fund structures are evolving to meet the evolving needs of LPs and the new wave of retailisation.

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

Signs of credit stress are emerging, but there are different views over its relevance for the private debt market.

Blackstone execs do not see recent defaults as ominous for the traditional private credit market and say they are issues for the banks, as noted on the earnings call.

The Private Debt Investor Global Awards return.