Private credit
Direct lending, syndicated loans, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), and specialist credit strategies designed to help pursue income potential, diversification, and risk-adjusted return opportunities.
We can help make private markets more accessible and impactful with our comprehensive ecosystem with institutional-quality capabilities, partnerships with specialists, portfolio construction expertise, and dedicated support.
Access opportunities across asset classes, geographies, and vehicles through a trusted platform supported by deep expertise and strategic partnerships.
Build portfolios that integrate public and private markets in ways that align with clients' goals, liquidity needs, and risk preferences.
Leverage education, portfolio construction resources, analytics, and specialist support to help clients understand private markets.
We offer a broad range of strategies and implementation strategies from income-oriented to growth-focused for real-world client portfolios, liquidity needs, and investment objectives.
Direct lending, syndicated loans, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), and specialist credit strategies designed to help pursue income potential, diversification, and risk-adjusted return opportunities.
Diversified real estate investments across sectors and geographies, including real estate credit and equity, and high-net-worth-oriented strategies, such as 1031 exchange solutions.
Private markets are investments that aren’t bought and sold on public exchanges. They can include private credit and equity, real estate, infrastructure, and other privately held assets. Because they aren’t publicly traded, they often have different characteristics than stocks and bonds, including longer investment horizons, limited liquidity, and unique risk and return profiles.
Private markets can help with a variety of long-term investment objectives, based on an investor’s goals, time horizon, liquidity needs, and risk tolerance. They can fit alongside traditional investments in a diversified portfolio.
For example, private credit and private real estate may complement traditional stock and bond allocations by accessing opportunities that aren’t typically available in public markets. Private credit may offer income potential through privately negotiated lending arrangements, while private real estate can provide exposure to real assets and long-term growth opportunities.
By combining in-house expertise with specialized investment partners, we aim to provide access to a comprehensive lineup of private market investments. We offer a wide spectrum of private market strategies, including private credit and equity, real estate, and infrastructure. Working with a financial professional, investors can determine how these strategies may align with their objectives, liquidity needs, and overall portfolio.
It’s important to consider liquidity when evaluating private market investments. Unlike many publicly traded securities, they often have longer investment horizons and may offer limited opportunities to sell or redeem investments before maturity. Because of this, it’s important to assess them within the context of an investor’s entire portfolio. Investors should work with their financial professional to assess their liquidity needs, anticipated cash flow requirements, investment time horizon, and overall asset allocation. When appropriately incorporated into a portfolio, private markets may complement more liquid investments while helping investors pursue long-term financial goals.
Public and private markets can play complementary roles in a portfolio. Public markets offer daily liquidity, transparency, and broad market exposure, while private markets may provide access to differentiated opportunities, longer-term investment themes, and additional sources of return and income.
Using both public and private market investments may help investors build a more diversified portfolio with additional opportunities for growth and income. For many investors, this balanced approach may support long-term investment objectives while maintaining access to the flexibility and liquidity that public market investments can provide.
Private markets may provide exposure to sectors, companies, and opportunities that aren’t available in public markets. As part of a diversified investment strategy, they may help broaden a portfolio's sources of return and income. Remember that diversification doesn’t guarantee a profit or eliminate the risk of loss.
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Diversification does not guarantee a profit or eliminate the risk of loss.
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Private market investments differ materially from public market investments. Public markets are generally easily traded and provide broad investor access, daily liquidity, transparent market‑based pricing, and standardized disclosures. In contrast, private market investments are typically offered to accredited or institutional investors, involve longer investment horizons, and provide limited or no liquidity. Valuations in private markets are generally periodic and model‑based rather than derived from observable, continuous market pricing. Performance and returns reflect fund‑level factors such as fees and expenses, leverage, cash flows, credit quality, borrower or property performance, workout and recovery outcomes, vintage effects, and manager execution, and outcomes may vary significantly. Private market investments involve greater complexity and heightened risks, including illiquidity, credit and default risk, valuation uncertainty, limited transparency, and reliance on manager judgment, and are not directly comparable to publicly traded securities or retail equity and fixed‑income products.
Investments in private markets involve a high degree of risk and, therefore, should be undertaken only by prospective investors capable of evaluating and bearing the risks such an investment represents. Investors in private markets generally must meet certain minimum financial qualifications that may make it unsuitable for specific market participants. Investments in private securities (such as private equity or private credit) or vehicles which invest in them, should be viewed as illiquid and may require a long-term commitment with no certainty of return. The value of and return on such investments will vary due to, among other things, changes in market rates of interest, general economic conditions, economic conditions in particular industries, the condition of financial markets and the financial condition of the issuers of the investments. There also can be no assurance that companies will list their securities on a securities exchange, as such, the lack of an established, liquid secondary market for some investments may have an adverse effect on the market value of those investments and on an investor’s ability to dispose of them at a favorable time or price.
Investments in private credit —including leveraged loans, middle market loans, mezzanine debt, and second liens—are speculative and involve significant risks. These securities are generally illiquid, lack a secondary market, and may need to be held to maturity, which can result in liquidity constraints and difficulty exiting positions. Borrowers often have high leverage, increasing default risk, particularly in adverse economic or interest rate environments. Competitive pressures and excess capital may lead to weaker underwriting standards, raising credit risk and reducing potential recoveries. Private market investments also carry risks related to limited transparency, higher fees and expenses, longer investment horizons, and regulatory considerations. Additionally, these securities may be sold or redeemed at values different from the original investment amount and are considered to have speculative characteristics similar to high-yield securities. Issuers are more vulnerable to changes in economic conditions than higher-grade issuers, and investors may face liquidity strain from capital calls during periods of market stress. These factors can materially impact investment performance and principal value.
Structured finance securities such as Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) entail a variety of unique risks. The performance of a CLO is affected by a variety of factors, including its priority in the capital structure of the issuer thereof, the availability of any credit enhancement, the level and timing of payments and recoveries on and the characteristics of the underlying receivables, loans or other assets that are being securitized, remoteness of those assets from the originator or transferor, the adequacy of and ability to realize upon any related collateral and the capability of the servicer of the securitized assets. Highly rated tranches of CLO Debt Securities may be downgraded, and in stressed market environments, even highly rated tranches of CLO Debt Securities may experience losses due to defaults in the underlying loan collateral, the disappearance of the subordinated/equity tranches, market anticipation of defaults, as well as negative market sentiment with respect to CLO securities as an asset class.
Direct lending involves providing loans to private companies, often without the same level of transparency or regulatory oversight as public markets. Borrowers may experience financial distress or default on their obligations, leading to potential loss of principal and interest for investors. Additionally, these loans are typically illiquid, making it difficult to exit positions quickly, especially during adverse market conditions.
Investments in real estate related instruments may be affected by economic, legal, or environmental factors that affect property values, rents or occupancies of real estate. Real estate companies, including REITs or similar structures, tend to be small and mid-cap companies and their shares may be more volatile and less liquid. The value of investments and any income will fluctuate (this may partly be the result of exchange rate fluctuations) and investors may not get back the full amount invested. Property and land can be difficult to sell, so investors may not be able to sell such investments when they want to. The value of property is generally a matter of an independent valuer's opinion and may not be realized. Although certain kinds of investments are expected to generate current income, the return of capital and the realization of gains, if any, from an investment will often occur upon the partial or complete disposition of such investment.
Private equity, as a form of equity capital, shares similar economic exposures as public equities. As such, investments in each can be expected to earn the equity risk premium or compensation for assuming the non-diversifiable portion of equity risk. However, unlike public equity, private equity’s sensitivity to public markets is likely greatest during the late stages of the investment’s life because the level of equity markets around the time of portfolio company exits can negatively affect PE realizations. Though PE managers have the flexibility to potentially time portfolio company exits to complete transactions in more favorable market environments, there’s still the risk of capital loss from adverse financial conditions.
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