The Ides of March came a bit early for privatecredit funds this year. Blackstone, the world’ s largest alternative asset manager, managing over $ 1 trillion in assets as of early 2026, said in early March that redemption |
requests from its $ 82-billion Blackstone private-credit fund, known as Bcred, rose to 7.9 % of its assets in the first quarter.
It’ s not the only one in reclamation worry. In February, Blue Owl Capital, an asset manager that specializes
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in private credit with over $ 307 billion in assets under management as of late 2025, restricted withdrawals from one of its private-credit funds after spooked individual investors began asking for their money back. |
Shares of private-credit lenders, including Apollo, Blackstone, Ares and KKR, have fallen more than 25 % so far this year.
Much of the concern in the nearly $ 2-trillion privatecredit market is around loans
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