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Editor's Picks

While we put the finishing touches on our Spring issue, here are some readings our editorial team has been passing around.

HistoryWall Street Fintech

The Definitive History of Private Credit

A thorough walk through how private credit grew from a niche corner of distressed and mezzanine investing into the multi-trillion-dollar asset class it is today. The best single explainer of how we got here and why the market looks the way it does.

Practitioner InterviewInvest Like the Best

Alan Waxman on Private Credit and the Modern Financial System

Sixth Street's CEO walks Patrick O'Shaughnessy through how private credit fits into the broader financial system, where the real risk sits, and how a top-tier credit shop actually thinks about underwriting and downside in a higher-rate world.

Macro & CreditHoward Marks, Oaktree Memos

Sea Change

Howard Marks' 2022 memo arguing that the era of ultra-low rates is over and that credit investors face a regime change as consequential as the one that ended in 1980. The single most-cited piece of writing in private credit conversations.

Industry ThesisMarc Rowan, Apollo

Originating Private Investment-Grade Credit

Marc Rowan in conversation with David Rubenstein on why the $40 trillion fixed income market is being progressively privatized, and why private investment-grade credit — not just direct lending — is the real story. The clearest articulation of Apollo's thesis from the source.

Manager LandscapePrivate Credit Pulse

The Emerging 20: Private Credit Funds to Watch

A scout report on the next generation of private credit managers — the funds that aren't yet household names but are putting up the kind of returns and deal flow that suggest they will be. Useful read for anyone mapping where the asset class is heading.

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