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Private credit is having a very “quietly confident” moment in early 2026. Not because it is risk free, it isn’t. It’s because investors can still find a rare mix of three things in one place: high income, seniority in the capital structure, and floating rate exposure.
On consolidation: the CVC/Marathon deal is the clean headline example private markets firms are buying capabilities and AUM to stay relevant in a tougher fundraising environment.
Hampton Gate Wealth provides introductions to third-party private credit providers and opportunities for qualified investors — we don’t manage assets and we don’t provide investment advice. Our job is to get you into high-quality conversations faster, with the right specialists, and with realistic expectations.
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Private credit is no longer the side hustle of alternatives it’s becoming the core. And the market is making that obvious through consolidation
If you strip away the buzzwords, private credit’s appeal is pretty simple: investors want paid, contractual income, and they want a structure that’s higher up the capital stack than equity. Done properly, private credit can offer exactly that premium yield, often floating-rate, with security and controls that you don’t always get in public markets.
Private equity gets overcomplicated in the way people talk about it. In plain terms, it’s investing in businesses that are not listed on the stock market, usually with the goal of improving them and selling them later at a higher value.
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