{"id":525838,"date":"2026-03-08T02:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525838\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:16:08","slug":"five-questions-about-the-future-of-the-asset-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525838\/","title":{"rendered":"Five questions about the future of the asset class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private credit is having a moment. The hottest new asset class has exploded in popularity on the promise of safety and income. Now, if you believe the headlines, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/chanticleer\/why-private-credit-s-new-cockroach-moment-has-gfc-echoes-20260223-p5o4kf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a cockroach- infested Hotel California<\/a> that has enticed and trapped naive retail investors.<\/p>\n<p>And those headlines keep coming. Blue Owl halts redemptions. KKR\u2019s listed fund cuts its distributions. Blackstone\u2019s $US82 billion fund processed $US3.7 billion of withdrawals. On Friday, BlackRock was forced to cap redemptions to 5 per cent on its $US26 billion ($37 billion) private credit fund, trapping investors against their will.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Private credit is having a moment. The hottest new asset class has exploded in popularity on the promise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-525838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}