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For more information on speaking opportunities at the event, please contact Hannah Ogun at hannah.o@pei.group
08:55
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Hannah Ogunlowo, Senior Conference Producer, PEI Group
09:05
09:20
09:40
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- How should managers balance underwriting discipline, governance frameworks, and liquidity design to ensure resilience?
- How has the asset class handled former macro tests and how is it expected to perform against the current geo-political backdrop?
- How do investors think about risk, return and resilience with evolving inflation dynamics?
Speakers
10:20
10:25
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- How do borrowers and sponsors arbitrage between the two over the cycle?
- How are the two financing channels responding to volatility, regulation and sponsor behaviour?
- Do LPs view both markets as complimentary tools or supplementary?
11:00
11:20
11:50
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- How are LPs engaging with differentiated asset-based finance strategies
- How does the risk profile compare to typical cash-flow direct lending?
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This workshop will discuss the current impact of AI on private debt fund management. How is AI reshaping private credit across the entire credit lifecycle? How are managers using AI to capture data – ChatGPT using own AI
12:30
13:30
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- How are funds evaluating relative value across financing options such as mezzanine, senior debt, CLOs and unitranche structures?
- How does documentation quality, covenant discipline and recovery dynamics differ across the capital structure?
- How is risk across the capital structure being packaged for investors?
- Navigating private credit CLOs and growing investor interest
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- Retail investment and concerns in private credit
- Managing the liquidity illusion
- Education vs yield chasing
- Regulatory guardrails and valuation scrutiny
- Latest insights with ELTIF 2.0 and BDC redemptions
14:10
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- Assessing the trends driving the surge in credit secondaries and it’s diversification benefits
- How are GPs providing options to address investor liquidity needs?
- What are LPs looking for in the liquid private credit segment?
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- How can managers address hidden risks before value erosion occurs
- How is AI changing the environment for software companies?
15:20
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- Reallocation trends across regions amongst global investors searching for yield and diversification
- How do spreads, deal opportunities, documentation terms differ across regions?
- Beyond the US & Europe, where are emerging markets private debt opportunities offering the most attractive risk-adjusted returns and diversification benefits?
15:55
16:35
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- Building out a private credit allocation
- Manager selection in a competitive landscape
- Unlocking opportunities in real estate private credit facilitated by Julian Marwitz, CEO, Marwitz Family Office
- Portfolios with Diversifying Strategies
- The role of family offices in private credit facilitated by Justas Daujotas, Investment Manager, Willgrow
- Private credit opportunities in emerging markets
- Capitalizing On The Opportunity In Portfolio Finance
- The energy transition opportunity
- Opportunistic credit
- How to include niche strategies in a portfolio
08:00
09:05
09:30
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- Why should an allocator care about this sleeve in a Private Credit portfolio right now?
- Evolution of the Strategy: from a "wait for the crash" model to an "active engineering" model
- How does the current market structure look that benefits the distressed strategy?
- What is the outlook and where do managers see the most compelling opportunities?
10:10
10:15
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- How are managers differentiating themselves in a competitive impact credit landscape?
- Key practical hurdles in executing sustainable investment strategies in the current market environment.
- Private credit diversification and sustainability as a financial alpha driver
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This workshop provides private credit professionals with insights to finding the optimal strategy and will also explore the future role of Fund of Funds.
Facilitated by Matthias Unser, Managing Director, YIELCO Investments AG
10:50
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- What Allocators Look for in Evolving Managers
- Do emerging managers truly represent a disproportionate source of risk or is the opportunity mischaracterized?
- How do LPs perceive sources of alpha across evolving and/or early-stage vs established managers?
- How to prove that you are a long-term, institutional-quality investment partner
11:25
11:55
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Our PDI Investment Committee takes a look at three investment case studies from leading GPs in this unique interactive format.
12:55
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Interview with a notable institutional investor discussing the role of private credit within their portfolio.
13:15
13:20
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Forum
October 13-14, 2026
Hilton Munich City
Hilton Munich City