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Value of global private debt assets hits record $1.19tn

Monday, February 17, 2025

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

A new analysis revealed that the total market value of private debt assets globally hit a new high of $1.19 trillion at the end of 2024, increasing by 3.9% since 2023.

According to Ocorian's Global Asset Monitor, the market value of private debt assets has risen by 435% since 2009 and 116% since 2019.

Private debt market values fluctuated between 2009 and 2016, after which they grew year on year. Values first hit passed the $1 trillion mark in 2022 rising to $1.15 trillion in 2023 before hitting the new high of $1.19 trillion in 2024.

The value of assets across all private market asset classes rose last year apart from real estate, which recorded a 2.5% drop, while infrastructure recorded the biggest increase year on year at 12.4% narrowly ahead of private equity at 11.6% and private debt at 3.9%.

Ocorian's Global Asset Monitor also reveals that over the long term combined private assets (private equity, private infrastructure, private debt, and private real estate) have grown nearly three times as fast as public assets, rising 618% in the past 15 years.

Last year the value of private market assets increased by an estimated $1.27 trillion - around 9.7% - to a record $14.34 trillion which excludes undeployed capital, so-called dry powder.

Private assets have become increasingly attractive due to their ability to help with diversification as well as returns which have been 4.8% higher per year since 2000, Ocorian's Global Asset......................

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