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The Big Take
Private Credit’s Gate-Crashers Are Forcing Funds Into a Brutal Spot
The world’s largest alternative asset managers are confronting a painful choice: Block investors who want to exit private debt funds and deal with potential blowback, or honor the requests and betray their guiding principles.
For months, private credit executives sensed the reckoning was coming.
High-profile blowups had rattled investors. Unease was mounting over heavy exposure to software companies vulnerable to AI. Retail clients they’d spent years courting began yanking money from the industry’s largest funds, straining limits designed to prevent fire sales of the loans they hold.
