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Andy Thomson

Andy Thomson is a Senior Editor at PEI with responsibility for Private Debt Investor, the leading title focused on the world's private debt markets. Andy works closely with team members in London, New York and Hong Kong. He has been with PEI for many years, having worked previously on Private Equity International and Infrastructure Investor.
Our data for private credit capital raising by strategy shows investors once again diversifying their commitments rather than concentrating them.
Capital solutions heads Alice Cavalier and David Brooks are thinking beyond short-term cycles to support business that are 'unloved... but good credits'.
Ares retains the top spot in our ranking as North America asserts its dominance when it comes to capital accumulation.
Our latest GI75 ranking of private credit’s biggest investors shows allocations increasing, with pension funds and insurers dominant.
The failures of First Brands and Tricolor has put due diligence under the spotlight. In The Private Debt Investor Podcast, Matthias Kirchgaessner of Plexus Research and Jiri Krol of the Alternative Credit Council debate whether private debt has problems to confront.
Five years ago, IMCO Invest set out to build a global credit strategy. Ahead of the Women in Private Markets Summit, the pioneer of that strategy, Jennifer Hartviksen, tells us how it has developed.
Recent bankruptcies have highlighted the need for extensive due diligence and, also, post-deal monitoring of risk in asset-based finance. Are relative newcomers to the space sufficiently equipped?
Private credit managers happy to extend loan holding periods may find new technologies will wait for no one.
Ahead of December’s Women in Private Markets Summit, Aviva’s Melissa Bockelmann discusses investor appetite for asset-based lending.
Head of CVC Credit Andrew Davies and partner Miguel Toney discuss which tailwinds are driving capital solutions in junior credit.
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