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GCI welcomes investment director

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
Robert Grajczyk will join the private credit funds specialist as investment director of its real estate capital solutions team. Global Credit Investments' (GCI) real estate offering, which launched in October, specialises in delivering credit solutions ...

VanEck to unveil private credit ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
VanEck is scheduled to launch a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that invests in private credit companies. The VanEck Global Listed Private Credit (AUD Hedged) ETF will start trading as LEND on the ASX on February 2. LEND will track the LPX Listed Private ...

Balanced portfolios to reap rewards in 2024: UBS

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2024
... traditional 60-40 stock-bond portfolio to a 40-30-30 stock-bond-alternatives, with a diversified mix of private equity, private credit, and real assets could increase annual returns 80-100 basis per year with 50-75 basis points less volatility." This ...

BlackRock grows private credit business

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023
BlackRock has upped the number of private credit specialists in its antipodean team by recruiting a Nomura operative. Based in Sydney, Stephen Allan has been appointed head of Australasia and will lead the origination and sourcing of private credit ...

AustralianSuper supersizes Churchill Asset Management mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... instalment reinforces the strength of our strategic partnership and their confidence in both our strategy and the private credit market," said Churchill chief executive Ken Kencel. "We believe we are currently in one of the most attractive investment ...

Private markets make concrete inroads with advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... In October, it partnered with iCapital to provide advisers access to global wholesale managed funds investing in private credit and hedge funds. Charles Badenach, principal and private client adviser at Main Street Financial Solutions, sees sophisticated ...

Barings prepares new strategies for local institutional investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023
... providers are stepping in with solutions such as levered unitranche structures to better serve borrower's needs. "Private credit mainly competes on flexibility for borrowers, and also offers relatively more pragmatic structures; these deals are usually ...

Super funds increasing offshore investment, currency hedging lessens: NAB

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023
... while funds are continuing to increase offshore holdings, they are also favouring unlisted asset classes, with private credit and unlisted international infrastructure the most favoured asset class, followed by unlisted property. This is in contrast ...

Maple-Brown Abbott loses sales head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
... Joe Millward noted that Hodnett's appointment reflects the heightened investor focus on the attractiveness of private credit as an asset class, with middle-market direct lending being a rapidly growing strategy. "Continued strong corporate borrower ...

Lombard Odier breaks into Australia, issues private credit mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023
... private bank, has awarded a mandate to Equity Trustees for its first offering in Australia. The LOIM Sustainable Private Credit (Australia) Unit Trust seeks to deliver investors capital preservation and risk adjusted returns through senior secured private ...