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January 23, 2025
January 7, 2025 – Vice Chairman of Investor Solutions Group, Randy Schwimmer appeared on Bloomberg Surveillance to discuss inflation coming under control with interest rates, market activity and stronger tailwinds for M&A activity ahead.
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December 30, 2024
New York, December 27th, 2024 – Churchill Managing Director and Senior Investment Strategist Alona Gornick appeared on CNBC’s “Fast Money” to discuss the current state of the private credit industry and the strong fundamentals driving its growth.
December 5, 2024
New York, December 3, 2024 – Churchill’s Alona Gornick joins the discussion about the critical considerations private equity firms must weigh when choosing between traditional financing methods and direct lending, including efficiency, certainty of execution, and incremental financing.
November 14, 2024
New York, November 14, 2024 – Churchill’s Alona Gornick joins Michael Sidgmore on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast to delve into the evoving landscape of private credit, the power of permanent capital, and the essential role of the product specialist.
October 31, 2024
New York, October 31, 2024 – Schwimmer and Holland discuss loan margin and covenant trends, fundraising, private credit innovation, the impact of higher-for-longer rates and regulation.
October 30, 2024
New York, October 30, 2024 -Randy Schwimmer, Vice Chairman of Investor Solutions Group at Churchill Asset Management, on the velocity in private credit and why it’s “adapt or die” time for credit managers.
October 3, 2024
New York, October 3, 2024 – Churchill Asset Management President and CEO Ken Kencel discusses the state of private credit markets.
September 25, 2024
New York, September 17, 2024 – Alona Gornick, Senior Investment Strategist at Churchill Asset Management, shares her thoughts on private credit.
August 8, 2024
New York, July 31, 2024 – Churchill Asset Management senior investment strategist Alona Gornick joins Wealth! to break down how private credit works and how investors can best utilize it for their portfolios.
July 29, 2024
New York, July 29th, 2024 – Churchill President & CEO Ken Kencel joined CNBC TV’s ‘Money Movers’ to discuss the current state of dealmaking and expectations for the second half of 2024.
July 7, 2024
New York, July 7th, 2024 – Ken Kencel is the President & CEO of Churchill Asset Management, a $50 billion dollar platform serving over 700 institutional clients. He shared valuable insights on the growing private credit market, the evolution of the industry, his first job at Drexel, working at Carlyle and then going out on his own to start Churchill from scratch. We also discuss the nuances of the art of the covenent and finish with Ken’s desert island discs.
April 23, 2024
New York, April 23rd, 2024 – Churchill managing director Anne Philpott discusses the firm’s direct lending and PE strategies and expectations for M&A in 2024.
December 27, 2023
New York, December 27, 2023 – Churchill Asset Management CEO Ken Kencel joins CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss his market expectations in 2024, what investors need to know, and more.
November 28, 2023
New York, November 28, 2023 – Randy Schwimmer, co-head of senior lending at Churchill Asset Management, joins Bloomberg Radio to discuss the private credit boom.
October 6, 2023
Greenwich, October 3, 2023 – Churchill Asset Management President and CEO Ken Kencel discusses the impact of higher interest rates on private credit deals on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.”
June 26, 2023
New York, June 26, 2023 – iCapital Chief Investment Strategist Anastasia Amoroso discusses the private credit markets with Churchill Asset Management President and CEO Ken Kencel…
June 23, 2023
New York, June 23, 2023 – Churchill’s President & CEO Ken Kencel joined Carol Massar and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Businessweek for an in-depth discussion about the private credit landscape and drivers behind the industry’s exponential growth over the last decade…
May 9, 2023
New York, May 9, 2023 – Randy Schwimmer, Co-Head of Senior Lending at Churchill Asset Management, joined the Bloomberg Markets Americas segment hosted by Alix Steel and Guy Johnson to discuss the potential implications of factors such as the potential end of rate hikes, bank failures, and recession fears on the private credit outlook…
New York, May 9, 2023 – Randy Schwimmer, Co-head of Senior Lending at Churchill Asset Management, discusses private credit, lending, and the credit crunch with Paul Sweeney and Kriti Gupta on Bloomberg’s The Tape…
May 2, 2023
New York, May 2, 2023 – Churchill Asset Management’s President & CEO Ken Kencel discusses the banking crisis and the increasingly important role of private capital in middle market dealmaking with Bloomberg’s Romaine Bostick from the sidelines of the 2023 Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California…
April 21, 2023
New York, April 21, 2023 – Randy Schwimmer, Co-Head of Senior Lending from Churchill Asset Management, joins APB to discuss the use of private credit in portfolio diversification, trends in investor appetite, and where future demand will emerge from…
April 5, 2023
New York, April 5, 2023 – Randy Schwimmer, Co-Head of Senior Lending at Churchill Asset Management, on private debt markets. He spoke with hosts Doug Krizner and Paul Allen on “Bloomberg Daybreak Asia.”…
March 31, 2023
New York, March 31, 2023 – Churchill’s President & CEO Ken Kencel joined Bloomberg’s Masters in Business podcast to discuss the pivotal moments in his personal life and career that led him where he is today, his firsthand experience in the evolution of private capital as well as the future of the industry…
March 5, 2023
New York, March 5, 2023 – Randy Schwimmer, Co-head of Senior Lending at Churchill Asset Management, discusses the economic outlook, the M&A environment, and the private debt opportunity today…
March 4, 2023
New York, March 4, 2023 – In this edition of The Top Quartile: In Conversation, Andrés Ramos, content specialist at Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions, sits down with Chris Freeze, Senior Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations at Churchill Asset Management…
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New York, July 19, 2024 – Direct lenders are issuing large loans to challenge banks’ domains, and megabanks are making a land grab in the middle-market, an area usually dominated by direct lenders.
New York, June 12, 2024 – Diversification is part of the current attraction to private credit among retail investors, especially those questioning the 60/40 portfolio model and concerned by the volatility of the public markets which has been exacerbated by interest rates, inflation, and geopolitics.
New York, May 22, 2024 – Credit-investing pioneer Ken Kencel on the power of people, passion, and perseverance.
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New York, January 21, 2025 – Churchill Asset Management LLC, the U.S. private capital investment-specialist of Nuveen, announced the firm closed or committed over $13 billion across approximately 400 transactions in 2024, surpassing its previous annual record in 2022 by 18%. Further, Churchill raised over $10 billion, bringing firmwide committed capital to $52 billion1 from more than 4,000 institutional, family office and high-net worth investors globally and representing the firm’s second-largest third-party fundraising year to date.
Charlotte, NC January 13, 2025 – Churchill Asset Management LLC (“Churchill”), an investment-specialist of Nuveen that provides customized financing solutions to U.S. middle market-focused private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, announced a second lien debt and minority equity investment to support Tenex Capital Management (“Tenex” or the “Sponsor”) in the strategic merger of Rose Paving (“Rose”) with Atlantic Southern Paving (“ASP”)…
New York, NY, December 18, 2024 – Churchill Asset Management LLC (“Churchill”), an investment-specialist of Nuveen that provides customized financing solutions to U.S. middle market-focused private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, was recognized among the 2024 “Best Places to Work in Money Management” by Pensions & Investments (P&I) magazine.
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