Oriel Morrison from Stockhead TV discusses the Australian private credit market with Joe Millward, founding partner of Epsilon Direct Lending.

Drew Meredith from the Inside Adviser asks what professional financial advisers need to know in allocating to private credit including, benefits for clients, misconceptions, and manager traits.

Australian non-bank lenders are making incursions against the big banks, but have many considerations during the loan decision making process to ensure proper loan structuring.

The super funds have a strong interest in the economy performing well. But if they’re not allocating to private credit then there’s no competition to the banks and you don’t have a competitive credit market.

Australian superannuation members now can access high quality loans to Australian companies that have been the exclusive domain of the banks for far too long.

We’d say that we’re in a unique space in middle-market direct lending as it has only just started to evolve in Australia.

Our ESG policy is built into every stage of our investment committee screening process… Almost every investor we speak to asks what our ESG policy is; if you want to raise money in private credit in Australia, you need a good answer to that question.