Managing risk and preserving capital are too important to be left to the trading strategies used for many financial products. From the first approach through to final approval, private debt requires a lender to have strong relationships with borrowers, a deep understanding of their businesses, informed risk assessments, and legally binding contracts with terms and conditions that protect investor capital and generate income. These same mechanisms help the borrower and lender weather storms to their mutual advantage. Few of these steps are present in public market trading strategies, leaving investors exposed at a time when quantitative easing has inflated the price and risk of other asset classes. Private debt prices in this risk and allows you to offer investors the capital protection they deserve. - Andrew Lockhart, Metrics Credit Partners. Earn 0.50 CE/CPD hrs on Portfolio Construction Forum