LPs going on the defensive Senior debt continues to be popular even as many investors have fleshed out their private credit exposure via their handful of favourite direct lenders. The proportion of senior debt capital raised in the first six months of 2018 hit a four-year high, according to PDI data, signifying a greater willingness…
US-based managers dominate fundraising Many of the behemoth alternative asset managers are based in America and have raised some of the largest funds this year. For all that’s said about the rise of private debt in Europe and Asia, managers headquartered in the US ruled fundraising in the first six months of the year, according…
Private debt keeps it global Managers with the capability to deploy capital around the globe are rounding up more capital than those focused on a specific geographic area. Private debt has had global ambitions in 2018; multi-regional funds locked down the plurality of capital so far this year, with credit managers raising $30.37 billion for…
What goes up… 2017 was one heck of a fundraising year that saw stratospheric amounts of capital raised. 2018 will be a regular one. PDI private credit fundraising numbers for the first six months of the year fell by nearly half compared to the same time last year, plummeting from $111.96 billion to $59.81 billion,…
Distressed Europe Overall fundraising for private debt in Europe has taken a plunge in 2018, but distressed strategies are bucking the trend. With only just less than $11 billion raised for private debt investment in Europe so far this year (at the time of publication), fundraising activity in the region is a far cry from…
Trending European Senior debt is finding a home in a rapidly maturing private credit market. All eyes have turned to Europe for senior debt fundraising with the bulk of funds investing at the top of the capital structure targeting the continent. Of the $78.63 billion credit managers are seeking for senior funds, some $39.15 billion…
Can Asia Pacific make a breakthrough? The region has been characterized by modest overall fundraising totals boosted by occasional mega-funds, but there is hope that this year may be different. Looking at fundraising data for the Asia-Pacific region over the last four-and-a-half years does not appear to provide much encouragement: 2015 saw almost $8.5 billion…
A direct way forward More limited partners are going straight to businesses to invest and it brings benefits to managers and borrowers. The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation has joined a growing number of limited partners doing direct credit investing, as the sovereign wealth fund announced it was creating a $1 billion portfolio for the effort…
Asia-Pacific: Down but not out The weak first quarter of fundraising is not necessarily a harbinger of things to come. Fundraising for Asia-Pacific funds in the first quarter was slow – as it has been historically – but the region may be poised to increase its fundraising total, according to PDI data. Across 2016, 2017…
Fewer managers collecting more of the capital Private credit vehicles seeking capital fell from the record level reached in the first half of 2017. The number of private debt funds raising money has fallen slightly from a record number at the middle of last year but it remains strong; as of 31 March, there were…