Asset-backed finance

Asset-backed finance continues to attract institutional investors seeking diversification and downside protection, but capturing the asset class’s premium requires specialist expertise, operational resources and extensive due diligence.

As private credit markets expand, institutional investors are looking beyond traditional direct lending strategies and paying closer attention to portfolio construction, liquidity management and manager selection.

Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer of Foresters Friendly Society, sets out how ABF provides the selective harvesting of differentiated risk premia.