With private credit no longer a niche investment strategy, but a core component of institutional portfolios worldwide, Macquarie Asset Management explores direct lending and infrastructure debt, including their distinctive features, trends fuelling their growth and the reasons these approaches are gaining traction among investors in Asia.
Asset owners across Asia are looking into their investing options in more niche areas of alternatives. There are several possibilities, although they will remain minority investments.
Illiquid investments such as aircraft financing, cat bonds and student housing are drawing interest, says Aman Dhingra, Singapore head of advisory at the Swiss private bank.