Private credit still runner-up to PE, LPs say

LPs want more centralised data, are bullish on dealmaking in 2025, but unsatisfied with returns.

Private equity maintains the edge in terms of satisfaction and expectations over private credit, but that doesn’t mean GPs are left without recourse to win over limited partners, according to a recent report by private market fintech firms SS&C and Intralinks.

To conduct their research, SS&C and Intralinks canvassed 171 limited partners across six continents to gauge their thinking on private assets.