Andy Thomson
The pan-European fund manager has raised an European long-term investment fund through which it will blend liquid and illiquid private credit investments.
Through a new vehicle, the Paris-based manager is offering clients of Italy’s largest private banking network access to private debt, private equity, real estate and special opportunities.
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The UK-based firm has posted a first close of its inaugural pan-European fund and is targeting €2bn of assets under management by the end of 2020.
Market sources tell us of some aggressive practices being undertaken by lenders at the smaller end of the market.
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The sector has been at the heart of private debt’s emergence as an asset class to be reckoned with. Investors remain committed, but there may be risks.
At the first close for its latest European mid-market strategy, the fund manager has already gone past the €1.1bn it raised for its debut European vehicle.
Talk of how to respond to a downturn was on the agenda at our recent London event, amid scepticism that fund managers were sufficiently well prepared.
Purna Bhudia, head of credit at the Pension Protection Fund, talked to PDI about how the fund approaches credit investing and how to manage the ups and downs of credit investing.