Meet the Team: Erica Axani Erica Axani is an integral member of the Garrington Private Credit senior leadership team and serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer. Her role encompasses firm-wide risk oversight, including underwriting standards, credit governance, and portfolio review. She is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and part of the executive team responsible…
Where Opportunity Exists in Private Credit In recent years, several charts and league tables have circulated illustrating the growth of private credit. They often compare managers by assets under management, highlight the concentration of capital in the United States and Europe, and suggest where scale has accumulated. These visuals are helpful. They illustrate that private credit has become a permanent…
Where Private Credit Fits in a Portfolio For decades, the 60/40 portfolio has been the standard framework for long-term investors. Equities were expected to drive growth, while bonds provided income and stability. That structure has endured because, over long periods, it has worked. What investors have also seen is that the diversification provided by traditional assets has not been consistent…
Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results, So, We Underwrite the Future, Not Assume It The familiar sentence appears across every corner of the investment world. Beneath tables, beside charts, inside offering documents. Past performance is not indicative of future results. We have seen this play out in countless ways across credit cycles: liquidity that expands and contracts, models…
The Discipline Behind the Numbers: Why Stability Is the New Alpha Conventional wisdom says investing is all about compromise. If you want the upside of equities, you must live with volatility. If you want safety, you accept muted returns. But the past decade has shown that this isn’t the only path. As Warren Buffett wisely stated , “The first rule…
Why Smaller Credit Platforms Can Do Big Things A case for precision, alignment, and the value of saying no. It’s easy to equate size with strength. In private credit, AUM headlines are often seen as a proxy for performance. Bigger funds, bigger teams, bigger raises, the story goes that scale is everything. But there’s a different story worth telling. Boutique…
The Power of Choice On building resilient portfolios, one deliberate decision at a time. Investors today have more tools, platforms, and asset classes at their fingertips than ever before, and rightly so. You deserve access. You deserve options. The ability to diversify thoughtfully to allocate capital across public and private markets is no longer a luxury. It is an expectation.…
Lending Series | Part 5: Real-World Lender Finance in Action Last week, we shared an overview of Lender Finance — a lending vertical where we provide senior revolving lines of credit secured by the loan portfolios of finance companies. This week, we’re continuing the conversation by bringing it to life. We often say that experience is everything in this space.…
