Dadong Yan, Head of Portfolio Finance, spoke with Private Debt Investor about Barings’ portfolio finance strategy, which provides insurance companies and other institutional investors access to first-lien, investment grade private credit, while seeking to preserve capital and generate alpha.
Barings has raised third-party commitments of more than $2.5 billion for its core portfolio finance strategy in the past six months, Private Debt Investor has learned. The strategy, which Barings differentiates from conventional NAV lending, invests in first-lien debt that is backed by portfolios of assets designed to offer asset managers an additional portfolio management tool. It can also help give managers increased exposure to their fund to promote stronger alignment of interest with their LPs, Dadong Yan, head of portfolio finance at Barings, told PDI
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