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Blackstone’s European private credit strategy for eligible individual investors passed its third anniversary in October. Mike Carruthers, the firm’s European head of private credit, talks with LFI about how the market has developed in that time, and evaluates incoming trends.

LFI: How has the private credit industry evolved since your private credit strategy for individuals launched three years ago?

 

Carruthers:

The European private credit market has grown and matured as a long-term strategy for eligible investors. The scale and diversity of capital being raised across individual, insurance and institutional channels is having a transformative impact on the market…

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