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Broadly speaking, private credit fundraising has headed in only direction since the global financial crisis: up and to the right. 

A decade of historically low interest rates fueled a market wide hunt for yield. Pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, foundations and a host of other LPs all sought higher returns in private markets — whether equity, credit, or real estate — because public markets didn’t pay.