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ING's ESG credit facility: Under the hood

PEI caught up with Fi Dinh, who led ING's first ESG-linked revolving credit facility, to discuss fund terms, interest rate calculations and sustainability targets.

3 min read · 15 October 2019

ING sets ESG carrot and stick with capital call facility

The bank provided a subscription credit facility for Singapore's Quadria Capital that pegs its interest rate to fund-level ESG performance.

3 min read · 14 October 2019

How big is the impact of credit lines on fund performance really?

Credit lines are contentious but their ability to improve IRR appears limited to the most strongly performing funds and funds early in their life, writes Christoph Jäckel of Montana Capital Partners.

6 min read · 04 September 2019

Danish pension's investment arm to quiz GPs on credit lines – exclusive

ATP PEP will ask GPs to provide an IRR that has been adjusted to compensate for the use of subscription credit lines, managing partner Torben Vangstrup told PEI.

3 min read · 27 August 2019

Brookfield’s PE head on the firm’s approach to leverage

The firm tries to secure non-recourse financing, long-term maturities and little-to-no financial maintenance covenants, according to chief executive Cyrus Madon.

2 min read · 07 August 2019

How KKR uses credit facilities

On its Q2 earnings call, chief financial officer Bill Janetschek detailed the way the firm handles credit facilities.

1 min read · 06 August 2019

Industry reacts to ILPA Principles 3.0

Private Equity International speaks to LPs and GPs about the industry body's updated guidelines.

3 min read · 08 July 2019

Fund credit lines: How to compare apples with apples

GPs must think carefully about how fund level leverage affects performance at the fund level and by extension, their own stability.

4 min read · 19 June 2019

UBS fund financing unit deploys $3bn

The bank's secondaries advisory group has teamed up with its fund financing unit and has executed around 20 private equity loans over the last two years.

2 min read · 17 June 2019

Why Australia’s BGH needn’t worry about slow deployment – yet

TPG veteran Ben Gray’s firm is understood to be using credit lines to avoid fee-drag on Australia’s largest first-time fund.

4 min read · 22 May 2019

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