Private credit markets - opportunities opening up across the spectrum

13 min read 6 Jul 21

Summary: With countries around the world rolling out their vaccine programmes and with growing optimism about the outlook for the global economy, has a potential return to normality been reflected in private and illiquid credit?

In our latest Spotlight on private credit markets, we offer an overview of the dynamic private credit markets and share our observations on how the private assets pipeline is shaping up as we look ahead to the second half of the year. We also discuss the appeal of low duration, floating rate private credit assets amid concerns about rising inflationary pressures.

The value of investments will fluctuate, which will cause prices to fall as well as rise and investors may not get back the original amount they invested.