Correlation Nation: Private Credit…and Everything Else
We continue our special series with the second of our “Five Biggest Private Capital Surprises of 2020:”
Surprise #2: Non-Correlated Trends – Infections, Markets, and the Economy
At their lowest moments in the Global Financial Crisis and the Global Biological Crisis, financial markets swooned in synch as investors found no safe havens. Bad news sunk everything. To paraphrase Tolstoy, happy markets are happy in different ways; unhappy markets are alike…
▶︎ Read Jan 18 2021 newsletter: here
▶︎ Chart of the Week: here (by S&P LCD, LSTA)
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Top 50 BDCs Accounted for 75% of Nonaccrual Loan Cost in Q2’26
The 50 largest BDCs, on the basis of total debt investments as of the second quarter of 2026, accounted for 75% of the total aggregate reported value of nonaccrual debt at cost and fair value.
US private debt AUM ($B) by channel
In 2025 and the early part of 2026, the retail channel added AUM to the asset class at a much faster rate than institutional investors in both regions, with growth rates of 43.7% globally, 41.4% in the US, and 73. 1% in Europe through the beginning of 2026 compared with year-end 2024 figures.
