Sep 4, 2025 | Markets, Private Credit
Private credit firms are selling stakes of loan portfolios as a way to boost a closely watched measure of how much cash they return to investors such as pension funds and insurance companies. Lenders have been forced to hold onto their investments for longer, given a...
Aug 21, 2025 | Markets, Private Credit
Warnings on defaults are starting to pile up in the $1.7 trillion private credit market, prompting at least some analysts to raise concern about underappreciated risks in one of Wall Street’s favorite money spinners. For years, losses have been contained by the fact...
Aug 1, 2025 | Markets, Private Credit
Private capital giants from across the Atlantic are jumping into the UK’s booming pension-risk transfer market, with insurers backed by Brookfield Corp. and Apollo Global Management Inc. announcing deals valued at a combined $10.7 billion in the past month. As British...
Jul 29, 2025 | Markets, Private Credit, Private Markets, Recommended
The largest public pension plan in the US is committed to private equity, according to its chief executive officer, Marcie Frost, even as the asset class has struggled to return cash to its investors amid a prolonged deal slump. “We still have very strong conviction...
Jul 22, 2025 | Markets, Private Credit
After it emerged from the rubble of Lehman Brothers, Trilantic Capital Partners exemplified the success of private equity’s vast middle market for more than a decade. Profitable bets on energy companies and consumer names like Traeger Pellet Grills bolstered its...
Jul 17, 2025 | Markets, Private Credit
In the past, the private equity world has been largely populated by ultra-rich investors, endowments and pension funds. That may be about to change. Retirement savers with 401(k) accounts are gaining access to the private investment market, which mostly pivots on...
