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Overview
Private credit has grown from a peripheral allocation to a systemically relevant segment of global credit markets. As bank intermediation has receded and private capital has stepped in to fill the gap, risk has migrated across institutions, balance sheets, and regulatory perimeters. For risk professionals, understanding how these dynamics affect credit quality, liquidity, valuation, and financial stability is critical.
Join us for a focused panel discussion examining private credit through a risk management lens. Three industry experts will analyze the market’s size and structure, assess emerging vulnerabilities, and explore forward-looking scenarios that could materially alter the risk profile of the asset class and its broader systemic footprint.
Topics will include:
The structural drivers behind private credit’s rapid expansion
Systemic implications in today’s credit environment
Valuation, liquidity, default trends and the role of institutional capital
Emerging and regulatory risks and what could challenge the current outlook
The impact and risks of participation by retail investors and insurance companies
Risk/Reward trade-offs in today’s private credit environment
This discussion will provide a balanced, analytically grounded perspective on where private credit stands today — and where it may be heading next.
Agenda
5:30 - 6:00 pm: Registration
6:00 - 6:05 pm: Welcome remarks
6:05 – 6:55 pm: Presentation/Panel discussion with Audience Q&A
James is a Vice President of State Street Investment Management and an Investment Strategist within the Defined Contribution team. In this role, he is responsible for representing State Street Investment Management's DC investment strategies, supporting current relationships and expanding State Street Investment Management's DC initiative. The team also serves as a resource to plan sponsors on a variety of plan design considerations, including plan design architecture and key regulatory and legislative topics. James serves as a voting member of State Street's Defined Contribution Investment Group, responsible for oversight of State Street's Target Retirement strategies and other DC asset allocation products.
James joined the Investment Strategy group from Pioneer Institutional Asset Management, and has been a member of the industry since 2008.
James earned a BA in American Studies from Hobart College. He earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and Boston Security Analysts society.
Alex is a senior analyst in Global Investment Research covering US asset managers, brokers, exchanges and trust banks in the Financial Services Business Unit. In addition to his coverage responsibilities, he is a deputy business unit leader for the Financial Services Group. Alex joined Goldman Sachs in 2007 and was named managing director in 2015.
Prior to joining the firm, Alex worked as an associate at Wachovia Securities. Earlier in his career, he worked in the Financial Advisory Services Group at Deloitte and the Corporate Advisory Services Group at Thomson Reuters.
Alex earned a BA in Economics from Brandeis University. He is a CFA charterholder.
Meghan Neenan is a managing director in Fitch Ratings’ financial institutions group and the North American head of Non-Bank Financial Institutions. Her coverage includes alternative and traditional investment managers, hedge funds, pension funds, securities firms, financial market infrastructure firms, business development companies, consumer and commercial finance companies, and leasing companies.
Prior to joining Fitch in June 2006, Meghan was an equity analyst at Morningstar, Inc. covering companies in the financial institutions industry. She began her career as a bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, analyzing a wide range of institutions, from small community banks to large, complex banking organizations.
Meghan graduated summa cum laude from Mount Union College with a BA in accounting and business administration and earned her MBA from the University of Notre Dame. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
