Miriam Uebel

High interest rates and low defaults? A 2025 private credit outlook

In der ersten Folge des Ausblicks für 2025 legen die Experten von LGIM dar, warum private Kredite für 2025 gut positioniert sind, unterstützt durch die immer noch hohen Zinsen, das positive BIP-Wachstum in den USA und ein sich verbesserndes M&A-Umfeld.

Sector focus: Continuing our 2025 private credit outlook

In the first part of our 2025 private credit outlook, we offered a broad overview of the prospects for the asset class over the next 12 months. Now, we assess some sectors in a little more depth – namely infrastructure and real estate.

Income and impact: Opportunities in affordable housing

Why we see a potential opportunity for private institutional capital to work in partnership with the public sector to address the UK’s affordable housing needs.

A sector approach: UK real estate in 2025

With January’s bond yield-led volatility calming down, we take stock of real estate as an asset class, looking at which sub-sectors might be of interest to investors in the year ahead.

Innovative water management: the future of data centres

From water treatment technologies to smart water management, water tech innovations are increasing the efficiency of data centres.

Digital infrastructure: Charting the course in 2025

After proving fairly resilient in 2024, we look at what the remainder of 2025 may have in store for digital infrastructure – including the potential impact of DeepSeek’s* R1 model release.

Deglobalisation 2.0: Infrastructure

While the infrastructure sector is large and diverse, we’ve chosen to focus our last blog of this series on the digital sector where the long-term scale of asset creation is likely to be especially large and the implications of deglobalisation may be particularly relevant.

Navigating the Private Markets landscape in 2025 (so far)

Like other asset classes, Private Markets have had to navigate a 2025 strewn with macro uncertainty. Here, we look at assets we believe are screening positively in the current environment, while asking what needs to change to bolster other sub-sectors.

Generative AI in data centres part 2: The evolution of GenAI and data centre investment implications

Generative AI in data centres part 3: How GenAI shapes AI sovereignty and data centre investment

In this final instalment, we consider how capital flows for data centre investment are shaped by AI sovereignty and geopolitics, and how the evolution of GenAI will increase their impact.

From cloud to cash: How hyperscalers are funding AI expansion

Big Tech’s funding of AI infrastructure is well known. In this blog, we address how hyperscalers are financing their efforts in the technology and answer questions around whether these initiatives are sustainable.

Applying growth equity investing to operational real estate

On the back of our recent report looking at investing in real estate operating companies, we assess how growth equity investing can be applied to operational real estate assets.