Janus Henderson expands private credit offering

Janus Henderson is expanding its private credit offering across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), making two specialist strategies from recently acquired Victory Park available to regional investors.

The move follows Janus Henderson's acquisition of the Chicago-based private credit manager in October 2024 and reflects growing investor demand for alternative income and diversification strategies amid heightened market volatility and elevated interest rates.

The two strategies being rolled out across EMEA are the Asset-Backed Opportunistic Credit Strategy and the Legal Credit Strategy.

The asset-backed strategy provides exposure to senior secured, asset-backed loans backed by short duration collateral across areas including receivables-based finance, hard assets and intellectual property.

Meanwhile, the legal credit strategy focuses on structured lending to the legal sector, with financing secure against diversified pools of legal receivables and supported by insurance protections and credit enhancements.

Co-founder and senior partner of Victory Park Capital Brendan Carroll said asset-backed finance offered investors structural protections and shorter duration characteristics at a time when markets continued to navigate "higher-for-longer" rates and macroeconomic uncertainty.

"Legal receivables, likewise, represent a globally established market with return dynamics that are fundamentally uncorrelated with broader macroeconomic cycles" Carroll said.

He added that VPC had spent almost two decades building expertise across specialist areas of asset backed fiancé.

Ignacio De La Maza, head of EMEA and LatAm client group at Janus Henderson noted investor appetite for private markets continued to increase as institutions sought resilient incomes streams and differentiated portfolio exposures.

"By offering access to VPC's specialist capabilities in asset-backed and legal credit, we're responding directly to the growing demand we're seeing from clients for innovative and differentiated private credit solutions," De La Maza said.

Founded in 2007, Victory Park Capital specialises in asset-backed finance and has invested more than US$11.6 billion across over 240 investments spanning sectors including receivables finance, hard assets and intellectual assets.