The New Order: Leverage Finance in an Asset Management World (First of a Series)

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In the same way, we think, private credit has grown from a back-water of middle market lending in the 1980’s to beachfront in the fastest growing element of the capital markets. We would suggest private credit is “The regulatory fix that became an asset class.” Over the next few weeks, we’ll examine these and other related questions in this special series, with the goal of more transparency and better education on both the liquid and illiquid asset classes…

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