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Fund Giants Muscle In on the $1.5 Trillion Private Credit Party
Major asset managers are looking to M&A as they vie to enter the booming private-lending market.
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Investcorp SA’s Jeremy Ghose is a popular man. Ever since the $50 billion firm snapped up alternative-credit manager Marble Point late last year, he’s been juggling calls from bankers and firms pitching similar deals.
“People know we’re in acquisition mode and they know we have the ability to write checks,” says Ghose, managing partner and chief executive officer of Investcorp Credit Management, the Bahrain-based firm’s lending arm. The $200 million purchase of Marble Point, a specialist in collateralized loan obligations, added $7.8 billion of assets-under-management to his division.