Both veterans and newcomers to the asset class are familiar with the basics of private debt benefits. Thanks to its premium yield over liquid credit and consistent returns across economic, rate, and market cycles, investors have moved briskly into non-traded credit since the GFC. Still, as we’ve seen and heard on several continents and at…

“Leveraged loan default rate rises to 14-month high in May” “US loan default rate hits 3-year high“ “Defaults in private credit averaged 5.9% in 1Q, law firm says” Everywhere you look these days industry rags are filled with talk about looming loan defaults. For anyone who’s been a practitioner or observer of the debt capital…

A frequent question from investors and others is, “When is a good time to invest in private credit?” What they mean is, “Is now a good time to invest in private credit?” Readers of this column know one of our consistent themes is private credit is not a timing thing. On a panel at the…

When we began our career in the middle market four decades ago, we could not have anticipated its transformation to private debt, the hottest asset class in capital markets. Back then being a lowly vice-president dedicated to smaller, non-public, non-rated, non-traded loans on the global syndicated finance desk at the great JP Morgan (then Chase…