Private Debt Intelligence – 4/18/2022
Private debt displays strong performance
over different time periods
Private debt funds have performed well over the past year, boosted by rising yields across fixed income assets, as evidenced by one-year horizon IRRs for the period ending September 2021. Private debt funds across all strategies returned 18.7%. Distressed debt was the best performing strategy with 18.3% followed by direct lending at 14.8%, while mezzanine posted 4.9%. Shifting to a five-year horizon, private debt funds posted a five-year IRR of 8.4% through September 2021. The top-performing private debt strategy over the period was mezzanine at 9.3%, followed by distressed at 6.0% and direct lending at 5.8%. These IRRs, in an exceptionally low interest rate environment, show why the asset class is raising funds and seeing AUM increase.
(Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)
Contact: Harsha Narayan
harsha.narayan@preqin.com

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