NEW YORK, February 4, 2021 – As featured in Preqin’s global private debt report, Ken Kencel, CEO and President of Churchill Asset Management discusses the impact of the pandemic on direct lending…
NEW YORK, February 24, 2021 – …asset managers of all stripes – traditional, private equity, and beyond – increasingly see private debt as a necessary market to plant a flag, says Ken Kencel, president and CEO at Nuveen’s Churchill Asset Management affiliate…
NEW YORK, February 23, 2021 – Anne Philpott of Churchill Asset Management participated in Preqin’s Alternatives in 2021: Private Equity, Venture Capital & Private Debt in Focus – Americas panel…
NEW YORK, September 1, 2020 – Coronavirus was top of the agenda when Robin Blumenthal caught up with four private debt experts this summer. Although there are bound to be some casualties, everyone agreed that private debt is well-placed to emerge strongly from this most unpredictable set of events…
NEW YORK, April 24, 2020 – Head of Origination & Capital Markets Randy Schwimmer discusses What Lessons Are Emerging as a Result of COVID-19 in Preqin’s Special Report…
NEW YORK, March 17, 2020 – Firms that don’t have fresh capital available to deploy, especially smaller, newer ones, could be especially vulnerable, said Ken Kencel, president and chief executive of midmarket private credit firm Churchill Asset Management….
NEW YORK, August 4, 2016 – At a loan conference some years ago we referred to middle market loans as the Rodney Dangerfield of capital markets. These small, illiquid instruments were the poor step-child to high-yield bonds and large leveraged loans. But at Creditflux’s inaugural New York conference on private credit last month, it was clear the situation has changed.
NEW YORK, June 2, 2016 – Where are we in the cycle?” That question gets asked at every conference we attend. It’s also clearly on the mind now of every investor, arranger and issuer of debt. The reason is clear: if we are in the seventh innings of the cycle (which seems the consensus), a downturn might be around the corner.