Private credit may be on cusp of 'further boom'

Asian institutions are keen to raise allocations to private debt this year, a newly-released BlackRock survey and comments from asset owners such as family offices show.

A version of this story was first published on sister publication, AsianInvestor.

Institutional interest in private credit is showing little sign of abating, as evidenced by a newly-released BlackRock survey and recent comments from family offices and regulators.

About 68% of institutions in the Asia Pacific plan to increase allocations to private credit, according to BlackRock's global private markets survey 2023 released on April 18.

The survey covered more than 200 global institutions managing over $15 trillion in assets under management and included pension funds, family offices, insurers, family offices and sovereign wealth funds.

BlackRock's findings...

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