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Allocators and asset managers from Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands discussed geographic diversification, market timing and distressed opportunities, credit ratings, defaults and workouts, sizes of corporate borrowers and consumer versus corporate risk. Most allocators’ existing exposure to private debt is well below their targets and there is plenty of capital to deploy.
Petri Lehtola, Portfolio Manager at OP Asset Management, talks to us about allocations across a range of portfolios and his belief that default risk is key to credit investing and that it should also create good opportunities after a volatile period.....
We sat down with Søren Nielsen and Jan Willard to talk about a challenging past year where the team still managed to outperform their benchmark thanks to tactical allocations and strategic, bottom-up selection of illiquid strategies.......
Tuomo Hietaniemi and Antti Kortela, Portfolio Managers, Private Debt Funds, gives us an in-depth look into a well diversified portfolio of direct lending, specialty finance, asset backed lending and special situations strategies as well as strategies and allocations going forward....
Over the past year we have interviewed allocators who specialise in alternative and private credit across the Nordics. This report highlights how Nordic investors and allocators are adapting to a new environment of raising rates, sticky inflation and possible recession and how it is effecting their strategies and allocations to alternative credit......
Thor Abrahamsen, Senior Investment Risk Analyst, spoke to us about new and growing allocations to private credit managers and some changes on the liquid credit side. On a new reality of higher inflation and interest rates, he notes that investing just got interesting again........
Head of Asset Management, Jonas Thulin, called a trough in equities in June 2022 and turned bullish. Now he is looking forward to less uncertain markets in 2023, with lower inflation and interest rates boosting risk assets.... ........
We interviewed Jani Partanen, Chief Investment Officer & CFO at Pohjantähti, to hear about the Finnish insurers strategies and allocations to alternative and private credit.....
We interviewed Jimmy Lundby, Chief Portfolio Manager for Private Credit Investments, to hear about a broad spectrum of risk and return profiles and where focus lies ahead........
In this interview with Portfolio Manager, Eveliina Nyandoto, she explains the financial and non-financial goals of the funds´s alternative and private credit allocations.....
