Vol. I · No. 023 Daily Edition Wednesday, October 7, 2026
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Today’s Take Goldman Sachs Asset Management's message that private-credit stress has not dented demand for alternatives leads a slate where Blue Owl redemption pressure looks to be easing but refinancing risk lingers, insurers keep funding asset-backed lending and CalPERS leans further into credit. Private equity brings European sponsor trades and a hard-nosed Bloomberg column on debt and exits, continuation vehicles and GP-stakes funds keep widening liquidity options, and law-firm alerts keep parsing the SEC's retail-access proposals. 20 stories
Private Credit · The LeadOct 6
Goldman says the private-credit scare has not cooled appetite for alternatives

Goldman Sachs Asset Management tells CNBC that institutional demand for alternatives, private credit included, has held firm through a stretch of gated BDCs and redemption queues. The question for GPs and allocators is whether the retail wobble is denting the franchise or just the froth. Allocator behaviour over the coming quarter will show which.

CNBCRegister
By the Numbers
5.29%
10-year Treasury yield
12 mo · 4.12 → 5.18
▲ CNBC / Trading Economics, Sep 30
4.00%
Fed funds target, upper bound
12 mo · 4.50 → 3.75 → 4.00
▲ FOMC Sep 16 / H.15 Sep 23
-0.06
Chicago Fed credit conditions index
12 mo · -0.04 → -0.06
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, week ending Sep 25
$1.5B
Warburg Pincus's raised Ingenia bid, USD
Investing.com (Reuters), Sep 27
$348B
PE NAV in funds 10+ years old
PitchBook, end-2025
$121B
Secondaries volume, H1
Evercore, H1 2026
As of Oct 7, 2026, before the open. No figure was re-verified this morning; all six cells are carried forward unchanged from the Oct 6 edition at their last published readings: the 10-year Treasury yield (5.29%, CNBC / Trading Economics, Sep 30), the Fed funds upper bound (4.00%, FOMC Sep 16), the Chicago Fed NFCI credit subindex (-0.06, week ending Sep 25), Warburg Pincus's Ingenia bid (Sep 27), PitchBook's end-2025 NAV in funds ten years or older and Evercore's H1 2026 secondaries volume. Sparklines are unchanged.

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