The premier private debt event in North America
The 11th annual Private Debt Investor New York Forum will return on September 17-18 to a brand-new venue at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Differentiate your firm and expand your investor base by connecting with 400+ senior decision-makers, including 100+ institutional investors, generating returns in the highly competitive private credit market.
Connect with North America’s leading investors, including CalSTRS, IMCO, Liberty Mutual, MassMutual, OTPP, and many more to:
- Understand where investors are looking to allocate funds
- Learn what they are looking for in a manager during the current macroeconomic environment
- Gain actionable insight into the best practices and strategies for generating the highest returns
What can you expect at the forum?
Explore new trends in private debt
Learn about the most relevant topics across the asset class, including direct lending, specialty finance, and more.
Exchange ideas with your peers
Have meaningful conversations with private debt experts about top return strategies and best practices for securing capital.
Expand your investor network
Make valuable connections with investors and discuss their top considerations when allocating to private debt.
Key agenda themes for 2024
Hear from industry experts about the most relevant topics across the private debt asset class, including:
- Macro trends and a push for real assets
- Main risk factors going into 2025
- Drive toward direct lending
- Trends in specialty finance
- ESG and DEI in private credit
- Private debt in middle and lower-middle markets
- And more!
2024 speakers include:
2023 Investor attendees included:
Apply for a complimentary institutional investor pass
Complimentary passes are available for eligible allocators and institutional investors to join the event.
To qualify for a complimentary pass, you must meet the eligibility criteria in representing a pension fund, insurance company, sovereign wealth fund, foundation, endowment, trust, family office, hospital/healthcare system, or corporate investment division who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.
Apply for a pass, and a member of our team will follow up with you.
See what past attendees are saying about the forum
Testimonials
Jim McMullan
Head of Corporate Credit, CDPQ
Overall great retreat; an opportunity to step back and think about private debt opportunities and trends.
Brett Hickey
Chief Executive Officer, Star Mountain Capital
Well-organized conference with high-quality LPs and GPs along with high-quality content and technology for participants to engage.
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- VIP access
- Thought-leadership opportunities
- High-profile branding
- And much more…
For more information about sponsorship opportunities, contact Beth Piercy at beth.p@pei.group or +44 207 566 5464.
2024 Sponsors
Thought-leaders shaping the North America private debt market:
Interested to speak at the New York Forum? Contact Erin Wolfe today.
2024 confirmed speakers:
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Steven Meier
Chief Investment Officer and Deputy Comptroller, New York City Comptroller’s Bureau of Asset Management
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Michelle Noyes
Managing Director, Head of Americas, Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)
Pre-Event Resources
Discover the Key trends shaping investor allocations
Download the agenda to discover hot topics in the North America private debt market.
If you are interested to speak at PDI New York Forum, please reach out to Erin Wolfe at erin.wolfe@pei.group.
2024 Agenda
Agenda
Day 1 - Tuesday 17th
PEI Welcome
Erin Wolfe, Associate Director, Global Head of Content & Strategy, Private Debt, PEI
PDI’s welcome remarks and introduction
Event chair:
Michelle Noyes, Managing Director, Head of Americas, AIMA
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Michelle Noyes
Managing Director, Head of Americas, Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)
Read bioMorning Keynote
Tia Malhotra, Managing Director, Golub
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Assessing the macro environment for private credit in 2025
- What monetary policy changes are coming out of the Fed and how can investors and managers be better prepared for these? What changes are anticipated in the upcoming elections and how will this impact investments?
- What are the expected changes coming to the private credit sector in the next five years?
- What are the current market conditions in the leveraged finance market?
- How are the role of investment banks continuing to evolve?
Moderator:
Michael Mezzacappa, Partner, Proskauer
Speakers:
Ken Kencel, President and CEO, Churchill Asset Management
Kevin Magid, President, Audax Private Debt
Craig Noble, CEO, Credit, Brookfield
Finding value: an LP perspective
- Where are allocators finding the most qualified opportunities?
- Is the return on private credit investments attracting new investors to the asset class?
- What strategies are providing the most attractive returns for investors?
Moderator:
Richard Melville, Editorial Director, U.S., PEI Media
Speakers:
Jennie Benza, Private Markets, GE Pension
Amir Madden, Senior Portfolio Manager – Alternative Credits, APG Asset Management
Doug Porter, Managing Director, MainePERS
Matt Lisonbee, Associate Portfolio Manager, CalSTRS
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Networking Break
Direct lending and beyond
- How are risk-adjusted returns being affected due to inflation and changing interest rates?
- Where is the most value creation?
- With increasing competition in the market, how are managers differentiating themselves?
- What specialist strategies should LPs focus on when making their private credit allocations?
Moderator:
Stelios Saffos, Partner, Latham & Watkins
Speakers:
Kevin Griffin, Founder & CIO, MGG Investment Group
Matthew Stoeckle, Director, Liberty Mutual Investments – Credit Strategies
Opportunistic credit & distressed debt at the forefront
- Where are there differences between opportunistic or distressed credit, and special situations?
- How is opportunistic and distressed credit combating market dislocation? What are the trends in rescue finance and balance sheet restructuring?
- Where are there areas of opportunity to enhance investment returns and increase portfolio diversification?
- How much capital is being raised for these strategies and what is the LP appetite?
Moderator:
Vincent Indelicato, Partner, Proskauer
Speakers:
Richard Grimm, Managing Director, Cambridge Associates
Differences and similarities for private & public markets
- What are the key changes in private credit & fixed income going into 2025 and what are best ways account for these changes?
- How is interest rate risk and volatility affecting both investment strategies?
- Where is the dry powder in these strategies being deployed?
Moderator:
Gabriel Yomi Dabiri, Private Credit and Cross-Border Finance Leader & Managing Partner, Polsinelli
Speakers:
Cathy DiSalvo, Portfolio Manager, CalSTRS
Bill Sacher, Partner & Head of Private Credit, Adams Street
Helena Wang, Principal, Capital Solutions Group, CPP Investments
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Gabriel Yomi Dabiri
Private Credit and Cross-Border Finance Leader & Managing Partner, Polsinelli
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Networking Lunch
Women’s Luncheon
Break-Out Session A: Preparing to fundraise
- With a slowdown in fundraising in 2023, how are managers rebounding and opening new funds?
- What are the major types of funds where dry powder is being deployed and where are these opportunities for growth?
- What are the current barriers to entry we see for newer funds?
Break-Out Session B: Middle market direct lending opportunities
- What is the outlook for the market and are firms favouring middle market or lower middle market opportunities?
- How are mezzanine financing and senior debt loans currently providing liquidity?
- What role are BDC’s currently playing?
- What alpha is being generated by investors?
Speakers:
Antonella Napolitano, Managing Director of Investor Relations, Deerpath
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Networking Break
Break-Out Session A: Innovations in private credit
- Where are the innovations in private credit coming from?
- How are AI and machine learning changing the way investments are made and reported? Why are technological changes becoming so important?
- What changes are managers making to continue to cater to complex fund structures?
Break-Out Session B: Private debt infrastructure & the energy transition
- How is infrastructure debt being considered throughout investment strategies?
- How are managers differentiating themselves?
- How is our macro environment affecting how the industry views the energy transition?
- Where are the opportunities for value-creation?
Speakers:
Don Dimitrievich, Portfolio Manager, Senior Managing Director, Energy Infrastructure Credit, Nuveen
George Fikaris, Managing Director, EnTrust Global
Archit Sood, Portfolio Manager, Global Credit, IMCO
Manish Taneja, Deputy Global Head of Infrastructure Credit, Carlyle
Eric Wittleder, Managing Director, Infrastructure, Brookfield
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Don Dimitrievich
Portfolio Manager, Senior Managing Director, Energy Infrastructure Credit, Nuveen
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Break-Out Session A: Success for emerging managers
- What is new and different around LP requirements for managers entering the market?
- What are the keys to differentiating strategies?
- Which specific strategies or regions are emerging managers finding success in?
Speakers:
Anna Dayn, Managing Director, New End
Greg Myers, Group Sector Head, Debt & Capital Markets, Alter Domus
Break-Out Session B: Changes in real estate debt
- What are the key pressure points when investing in commercial real estate today?
- How are changes in the macroeconomic outlook influencing commercial and non-commercial markets?
- What are the political and regulatory issues impacting the real estate debt market?
The confluence of insurance and private credit
- What are the key motivators for insurance companies to increase exposure to the direct lending sector through new fund launches and acquisitions? How attractive is the risk/return profile?
- What are the implications of the move of private credit firms into the insurance space?
- How might regulatory changes at the state or federal level affect the availability and interest by insurers through private credit?
LP Keynote
Cocktail Reception & Roundtables
Roundtable Discussions
Join us for our first ever networking roundtables before our reception where we will cover some of the latest content in private credit and invite you to have dynamic discussions and meet with your peers. Topics coming soon!
Agenda
Day 2 - Wednesday 18th
Investor-only networking breakfast (By invitation only)
Exclusive for LPs, peer to peer discussions focused on the latest trends facing LPs. Facilitators represent institutional investors and family offices respectively. Please RSVP to erin.wolfe@pei.group
Welcome remarks from Chair
Presentation from PDI Data Team
Mastering deal origination
- How are firms changing how they originate deals?
- How are fees playing a role in the origination process? Why are fees becoming a competitive factor?
- What research tools are the most applicable for deal origination in 2025?
- How are origination capabilities setting managers apart in a borrower’s eyes and what sourcing capabilities are they utilizing to scale and expand strategies?
Speakers:
Thomas Cockburn, Senior Director, Private Debt, CDPQ
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Growth of niche strategies in specialty finance
- How does performance vary between niche, specialty finance and direct lending strategies? How are we measuring the success of niche strategies?
- How are LPs balancing exposure to these strategies in their investment portfolios?
- What are the keys to differentiating one strategy from another when looking to make new investments?
Speaker:
Luke Düster, Chief Investment Officer, CRG
Eric Newman, Treasury Manager, City of Stamford
Daniel Pietrzak, Partner, Global Head of Credit, KKR
Emerging trends in asset-based lending
- How has the market developed and what types of investments are gaining traction given changes in the macroeconomic landscape?
- Where is asset-based lending trending over traditional direct lending vehicles and is this a trend we will continue to see in the future?
- Where are the emerging areas of value creation for asset-based lending?
- How are different types of collateral used for asset-based deals?
- How has this strategy been impacted by the current macroeconomic environment?
Speakers:
Soyoun Ahn, Managing Director, Credit and Hybrid Solutions, Temasek
Isaiah Toback, Partner & Deputy CIO, Castlelake
Akhil Bansal, Managing Director, Head of Credit Strategic Solutions, Carlyle
Networking Break
Finding liquidity through NAV financing
- How are GPs using NAV finance and structured products to create distributions for investors?
- Are LPs utilizing NAV financing to work through overallocation concerns?
- How are GPs & LPs looking at performance of funds which include NAV finance?
Speakers:
Greg Hardiman, Managing Director, Investments, 17Capital
Lori Pomerantz, Managing Director, Partners Group
Global private credit and the newest opportunities internationally
- Where are the opportunities originating out of Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East?
- What global geo-political risks are investors and managers seeing when thinking about international investments?
- What is the LP appetite for private credit originating in these regions?
- What have experience in returns been like in these markets?
An economist’s viewpoint: a discussion with Thomas Holzheu of Swiss Re
Lunch & End of Day 2
2023 Hotel & venue
New York Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway New York, New York 10036
All conference sessions will take place at New York Marriott Marquis.
There is also a room block at the hotel reserved for attendees. If you would like to book a room in the block, please use the link below or call reservations at +1 212 398 1900.
Connect with private debt investors and fund managers
Form invaluable relationships with the expansive community of asset managers, institutional investors, and other private debt professionals attending the forum.
Ensure you are at the forefront of the latest trends affecting your investment strategies by participating in networking sessions and having important conversations with industry leaders.
Network with institutional investors
Take advantage of the unique opportunity to meet institutional investors and discuss how private credit strategies fit into their portfolios.
Participate in invaluable discussions
Improve your strategy for allocating funds to private debt and generating high returns through conversations with private debt leaders.
Create lasting connections
Build your network of knowledgeable and experienced contacts within the private debt sector by networking with your fellow attendees.
Apply for a complimentary institutional investor pass
The Private Debt Investor New York Forum is the largest meeting place for private debt professionals in North America. A limited number of complimentary passes are available for eligible institutional investors to join the event.
To qualify for a complimentary pass, you must meet the eligibility criteria in representing a pension fund, insurance company, sovereign wealth fund, foundation, endowment, trust, family office, hospital/healthcare system, or corporate investment division who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.
Apply for a pass today and a member of our team will follow up with you.
2023 investor attendees included:
What to expect at the forum:
Gain exclusive insights
Enrich your network, build lasting relationships, and exchange valuable perspectives with your investor peers.
Explore new opportunities
Discover private debt opportunities across strategies such as direct lending, secondaries, and real assets.
Meet with industry experts
Arrange one-to-one meetings and network with the biggest leaders engaged in the private debt asset class.
Investors at PDI New York Forum
The forum is the largest gathering in North America for institutional investors and other professionals part of the private debt community.
Download the investor prospectus to access important details and insights about the event.
The lineup includes pensions, insurance companies, and more
Hear from a variety of institutional investors
Apply for a complimentary Institutional Investor pass
A limited number of complimentary passes are available for allocators and institutional investors to join the event.
Complimentary investor passes are limited to pension fund, insurance company, sovereign wealth fund, foundation, endowment, trust, family office, hospital/healthcare system, or corporate investment division who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.
Apply for a pass and a member of our team will follow up with you.
Meet our 2024 advisory board:
Contact Erin Wolfe today to tell us your topics of interest you want to hear this September.