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Ares Faces Its Biggest Decision Yet: Stick With Private Credit or Become an Alts Supermarket

Private Equity Insights

Question is: Can it become a one-stop shop for pension funds, endowments, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds eager for exposure to every major alternative-asset class — without diminishing its private credit franchise? The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious. Whenever he approaches a U.S.

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AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall on Shadow Banks and Investing More in Canada

Pension Pulse

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others.

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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

In the US, Bloomberg Intelligence reckoned in a February note that 17% of loans at the 10 largest business development companies — essentially vehicles for private credit funds — involved PIK. Some investors don’t want firms using such tools to flatter returns.

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