Fund Management

‘Junior capital offers delayed draw capacity, which is a critical source of funding for sponsors with buy-and-build investment strategies seeking to make post-closing acquisitions.’

As the relationship between banks and debt fund changes, Michael Guarnieri and Nakul Karnik expect greater collaboration this year.

As 2025 is ushered in, investors are reasonably confident about private debt’s prospects – but concerned that some problems have been masked.

As the world awaits Donald Trump’s second term, private credit is set to become a major force in markets and that will attract the attention of politicians.

After several tumultuous years, 2024 saw market sentiment start to improve and private credit reach out into new and lucrative areas of finance.

New GPs face a tough task to attract investor interest, but there are ways in which they can maximise their prospects.

Blockchain and tokenisation can help to democratise private markets, and private debt is leading the way, explains Michael Johnson of Gen II.

What Article 8 classification means and why it may be important to take advantage of today’s rules before they become more strict, by Rachel Lowe and James Oussedik of Proskauer.

The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund will expand its reach into fund finance and open itself to external shareholders.

Accumulating new capital has been challenging over the last couple of years, but LPs now have the inclination and ability to make greater commitments.