For any GP worth their salt, a sales pitch with a #zeroloss #proposition, but not backed up by any bona-fide guarantee to that effect, should always be promptly dismissed. That #privatedebt became a $2.5 trillion (🤦‍♂️!) "asset" class says a lot about the liquidity-driven madness in #global #investment #markets - sad.⚠️

Private debt bumps up against managers’ #competence
"The sales pitch that #privatecredit is somehow a zero-loss proposition looks increasingly questionable"👎
https://www.asiaasset.com/private-markets/private-debt-an-asset-class-that-seems-to-be-outgrowing-its-practitioners-competence/

Private debt bumps up against managers’ competence

PitchBook report shows private debt fundraising grew almost fivefold in ten years, but it’s unlikely that capabilities and skills of managers in the asset class have grown at the same pace.

Asia Asset Management