M&G Investments: The next phase for private credit markets

The resilience and adaptability of the asset class during the ongoing pandemic has helped to cement private credit’s permanence in the minds of strategic asset allocators. In this paper, M&G Investments reflects on the changed, and changing, landscape for private credit investing, and offer a perspective on the multi-faceted role private credit could have in helping to finance the post-pandemic recovery, and support many of the changes the world needs over the longer term. The paper also focuses on some of the key themes influencing private credit today and discusses what the coming five to ten-years could have in store for the growth and development of the diverse and dynamic private credit markets and what this could mean for investors.