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Performance of Private Credit Funds: A First Look

Shawn Munday, Wendy Hu, Tobias True and Jian Zhang
The Journal of Alternative Investments Fall 2018, 21 (2) 31-51; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jai.2018.21.2.031
Shawn Munday
is professor of the practice at UNC Chapel Hill, Kenan Flagler Business School, in Chapel Hill, NC
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Wendy Hu
is a senior researcher at Burgiss in Hoboken, NJ
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Tobias True
is a partner, Investment Strategy and Risk Management, at Adams Street Partners in Chicago, IL
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Jian Zhang
is a principal, Investment Strategy and Risk Management, at Adams Street Partners in Chicago, IL
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Although private credit funds have rapidly grown into a stand-alone asset class over the last decade, little is known about the aggregate performance of these funds. To provide a first look at absolute and relative performance, the authors use the Burgiss database of 476 private credit funds with nearly $480 billion in business development companies committed capital, including a subset of 155 direct lending funds. They review the recent trends within private credit, provide an overview of various strategies, describe returns since 2004, and compare private credit with several benchmark indices in order to develop a preliminary view of performance and risk across various private credit strategies. Measures of absolute performance reveal IRRs (internal rates of return) that are positive for the top three quartiles across all strategies. The leverage loan index provides the best fit as a benchmark across most private credit strategies. Measures of relative performance (PMEs) suggest that private credit funds have performed about as well, or better than, leveraged-loan, high-yield, and business development company indexes. Direct lending funds have relatively low beta and positive alpha compared with the leveraged loan or high-yield indices. In addition, direct lending funds’ low correlation with benchmark indices may indicate diversification benefits relative to other credit strategies.

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Performance of Private Credit Funds: A First Look
Shawn Munday, Wendy Hu, Tobias True, Jian Zhang
The Journal of Alternative Investments Sep 2018, 21 (2) 31-51; DOI: 10.3905/jai.2018.21.2.031

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Performance of Private Credit Funds: A First Look
Shawn Munday, Wendy Hu, Tobias True, Jian Zhang
The Journal of Alternative Investments Sep 2018, 21 (2) 31-51; DOI: 10.3905/jai.2018.21.2.031
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