Private credit managers across Asia-Pacific are sharpening their focus on red flags in underwriting as competitive pressure rises. Investors and lenders are recalibrating around protections, collateral strength and disciplined structuring.
With private credit no longer a niche investment strategy, but a core component of institutional portfolios worldwide, Macquarie Asset Management explores direct lending and infrastructure debt, including their distinctive features, trends fuelling their growth and the reasons these approaches are gaining traction among investors in Asia.
With GP-led deals gaining traction and LPs seeking exits amid macroeconomic headwinds, Asia’s evolving landscape is reshaping how capital moves across the region.
Asian investors are accelerating a push toward private equity secondaries to manage liquidity, rebalance portfolios and capture discounted opportunities.
More than half of APAC investors say market conditions in infrastructure are improving, far surpassing the global average of 40%, a new fund manager survey says.