Private credit investors weigh growing risks

Investors and consultants have raised concerns about growing risks for investors in private credit markets, as leading managers rush to deploy cash from the fast-expanding sector. “Some [managers] are being very aggressive about the volume of capital they are raising and less selective in terms of deployment,” said Thibault Sandret, head of private debt research at bfinance in London, a consultant with a large number of family offices and institutional clients in the Asia Pacific.…