APIR: ETL0829AU · Wholesale & Retail
← All Insights Thesis · 30 April 2023

Our Difference is Diversification

Most private credit funds in market today are single-strategy. A real estate debt fund. A corporate direct lending fund. A consumer receivables fund. Each is a legitimate strategy in its own right — but each is also exposed to a single set of underlying drivers.

A different construction

The Market Intelligence Income Fund is built on the opposite premise. We allocate across consumer, real estate, corporate and trade finance debt — and the resulting portfolio behaves differently. When real estate debt is under stress, corporate direct lending may not be. When unsecured consumer is challenged, asset-backed trade finance can be largely unaffected.

What diversification does — and does not — do

Diversification does not eliminate credit risk. It changes its character. A portfolio diversified across credit sub-sectors will have lower idiosyncratic risk and a smoother return profile through normal cycles. It will not be immune to a generalised credit shock, but it will typically recover faster because no single sub-sector failure is fatal.


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