BDC Analysts Spotlight Resilient Credit Trends and a Brighter 2026 Outlook at AICA’s Inaugural Earnings Pulse Session
Against the backdrop of efforts by Bluerock1 to publicly list its real estate-focused interval fund, fund sponsors ...
XAI’s Flynn on growth and expansion in interval funds
Kimberly Flynn, Managing Director of Alternative Investments at XA Investments, discusses the state of interval funds, which have been growing rapidly and expanding their asset reach. It's not just the 50-plus funds on file and the entry of...
BlueBay’s Farley: ‘We’re looking at a multi-year high in default rates’
Duncan Farley, Portfolio Manager on the Developed Markets Special Situations team at RBC BlueBay Asset Management — manager of the BlueBay Destra International Event-Driven Credit Fund — says corporations that have been...
Christian Munafo on private markets, AI impacts
Christian Munafo, Chief Investment Officer, Liberty Street Advisors, Inc., and Portfolio Manager of The Private Shares Fund, explores the reasons why many companies are staying private for longer. He says that while public markets are slowly reawakening, mergers and acquisitions remain scant, concluding that “there really aren’t a lot of paths today for these companies to exit as we’ve had in prior cycles.
Trinity’s Brown: Near-shoring, interest rates and more are boons for private credit
Kyle Brown, chief executive officer at Trinity Capital, sees the private-credit boom continuing, in part fueled by government efforts to generate business gains in the United States. That has created a new wave of capital expenditures — and...
Allspring’s Schueller says this ‘muddle-through economy’ is good for junk bonds
Mike Schueller, Co-Manager of the Allspring Income Opportunities fund, says that high-yield bonds are poised to be steady performers through the current wave of headline risks and market uncertainty because the economy is solid enough...
