Andrew Hedlund
Andrew Hedlund is the Americas Editor at Private Debt Investor where he reports on the private debt market and coordinates coverage of the asset class. Before joining PDI, he reported on corporate bankruptcies for The Deal and Reorg Research, two financial trade publications.
Andrew received a master's degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He also earned bachelor of arts degrees in from Arizona State University.
With the addition of Oaktree, a respected credit business, Brookfield has shown how debt investing has risen to prominence post-global financial crisis and become crucial for being a global diversified asset manager.
The growth in private credit presents plenty of upsides for private equity firms but also offers real challenges for CFOs and COOs.
Private equity firms taking non-control stakes in other such firms is booming, but the off-ramps for such deals remain mostly theoretical.
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Private markets managers often use the capital garnered from selling minority stakes.
The two asset management behemoths plan to tap an additional investor outlet.