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The Lead: The Price of Admission
A friend recently told us about a bar in Barcelona, the Dow Jones Bar, where drink prices move all night on a ticker tape, climbing and falling with the crowd like a trading floor.
Fundraising slows but record in sight
PEI Private Credit’s latest fundraising data shows a slowdown in Q3 in a year with huge momentum in the first…
Time on the road increasing since 2021
The average time spend fundraising for private credit fund strategies has generally risen during the 2020s. The average time taken…
Number of smaller funds dwindles
Analysis of fund-close data found that vehicles valued at under $250m have seen a rapid decline since 2024.While PEI Private…
Sub line pricing flattens
A report on the topic also finds that investors are less concerned by leverage in NAV loans. Pricing for subscription…
North American GPs dominant as fundraising accelerates
Our PEI Private Credit 200 ranking also shows capital raising increasing overall – and accelerating especially fast for the largest…
Lack of new issues clouds CLO market
It’s been boom time in the leveraged loan market but now that market has eased off, what are the implications…
Private pensions and insurers top the commitment charts
Our Investor Report delves into the extent of commitments made to private credit by different institutions. In last month’s column,…
Allocations hold steady amid insurer caution
Institutional investors were wary of increasing their private credit exposures in H1. Given all the ‘noise’ around private credit, albeit…
Private credit hits the target
Our latest fundraising data shows funds are now much less likely to fall short of their capital-raising aspirations. The most…
Senior debt and North America lead the way
We dig deeper into Private Debt Investor fundraising data from the first half of this year.
Fundraising soars above the drama
It’s been a bad year for news headlines, but a great year on the institutional fundraising frontline. You could be…
Senior debt shows strong deployment
The strategy’s popularity with investors peaked in 2024, as did the amount of capital being deployed. In 2024, amid a…
North American performance matches up well
An examination of recent vintages shows why the region is an investor favourite. Looking at the accompanying charts from Private…
The best and the rest
Our data confirmed the importance of manager selection, given evidence of wide performance dispersion across strategies. In the second iteration…
Solid foundations for real estate debt
After a rocky period for property, investors appear to be regaining confidence – in the debt layer at least. Real…
North America remains investor favourite
Despite talk of Europe becoming the new fundraising magnet, the data is not showing any significant change in LP appetite.…
