What’s New In Investments, Funds? – HSBC, Hamilton Lane, MSCI

Editorial Staff

5 September 2025

HSBC Asset Management
has launched a solution that helps clients understand long-term risks of private credit, an expanding asset class.

The New York-listed group said it is responding to investors’ lack of data and insights around the asset class.

The Private Credit Factor Model integrates private credit into the systematic, factor-based framework that forms the basis of modern portfolio management, MSCI said in a statement yesterday

“Over the past decade the explosive growth in private credit, driven by investors’ search for yield and structural shifts in capital markets, has outpaced the tools needed to manage it. And institutional investors such as pension funds are being asked by plan participants, boards and other stakeholders to shed light on these often-opaque assets,” it said.

“Private credit requires enhanced analytical tools and insights as it plays an increasingly important role in diversified investment portfolios,” Luke Flemmer, head of private assets at MSCI, said. “By bringing transparency and consistency to private credit risk, MSCI’s model supports smarter decision-making and enables investors to better understand how these assets contribute to overall portfolio risk and resilience.”