Fundraising for European Private Debt

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This week’s Chart of the Week highlights how US and European private debt fundraising came into Covid with a head of steam, slowed, and has now picked up.

Our content partner, , recently published excellent commentary related to investors’ views of the “European opportunity.” One CIO said it started looking more attractive when US yields dropped precipitously last year. Since then, the difference in yields as shrunk.

According to PDI, there’s $116 billion of funds in the North American market, $85 billion in Europe and $12 billion in the Asia-Pacific region.

▶︎ Read July 19 2021 newsletter: here

▶︎ Chart of the Week: here (by Preqin)

(Any “forward-looking” information may include, among other things, projections, forecasts, estimates of market returns, and proposed or expected portfolio composition Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investing involves risk; principal loss is possible.)

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