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With investors growing in confidence after an uncertain year, attention is moving to ESG in the wake of new EU rules, say Laurent Bouvier, founding managing partner, and Coralie De Maesschalck, head of CSR and ESG, at Kartesia.

Aggregating ever-growing pools of global capital presents unique opportunities and challenges, says Antares Capital’s Donna Yip

The CRE credit market has begun to look to quantitative methodologies, yet the industry still has a long way to go, says Dr Tingting Zhang, founder and CEO of TerraCotta Group.

There are always lessons to be learned when growing a pioneering business investing in European consumer and SME loans, says Selina Burdell, co-founder and chief operating officer at LCM Partners.

Combining data analytics with deep expertise is key to identifying the most attractive opportunities, including through the covid-19 dislocation, says Marianna Fassinotti, managing director at the D. E. Shaw group.

Highly diversified and resilient, the European collateralised loan obligation market is attracting increasing attention, say Permira Credit’s Ariadna Stefanescu and Jihan Saeed.

Healthcare activity in the middle market has been and is expected to remain robust, driven by a number of factors, says Twin Brook Capital Partners’ Faraaz Kamran.

As banks continue to pull back from real estate lending, Europe emerges as a growth market for private debt, argues Schroders’ Natalie Howard.

Demand for certain segments of hospitality is back, and lenders with appetite to provide debt liquidity in the sector stand to benefit from this, argue MetLife Investment Management’s Bill Webster, head of hotel asset management, and William Pattison, head of real estate research and strategy.

Understanding the key real estate trends emerging from the pandemic leads to credit opportunities that investors can benefit from, argues BentallGreenOak’s Jim Blakemore.