Safety first is good news for senior debt

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Investors coming from fixed income, and with anxiety around inflation, see the senior end of the spectrum as their natural entry point into private debt.

The covid-19 pandemic has seen senior debt fundraising take more market share, with PDI’s 2021 Fundraising Report recording that 45 percent of all capital raised was for senior debt strategies, the highest proportion ever recorded and up from just 31 percent in 2020.