Private Credit Is Giving Investors Better Returns Than Private Equity
- State Street index says debt increasingly outperforms equity
- PE distributions have also dropped since the beginning of 2022
Private debt funds returned 2.61% to their investors in the second quarter of 2023.
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Investors in private credit are currently getting better returns than they would from private equity, new data shows, piling even more pressure on a buyout industry that’s reeling from the evaporation of M&A this year.
The State Street Private Equity Index, which collects data from about 3,900 funds with $4.8 trillion in capital commitments, calculated that private debt funds returned 2.61% to their investors in the second quarter of 2023, the latest data available, while buyout funds returned 2.29%. Since the start of 2022, private credit has been ahead in all but one quarter, according to State Street’s numbers.