Insights

Canyon ABF Partners launches a permanent-capital vehicle built to facilitate $5 billion-plus of annual origination, led by Jay Kim — and signals why asset-based finance executive recruiting firms track origination-led platform builds.

As credit secondaries volume scales toward $200 billion, private credit executive search firms are mapping the talent shifts behind a market that did not exist 24 months ago.

The CFO market may hit $30 billion in 2026. Bill Ebinger of ABF Global Search examines the talent implications for fund finance and structured credit teams — and why the candidate pool is smaller than deal volume suggests.

Infrastructure debt is reshaping private credit recruiting as platforms race to build origination and underwriting teams across digital infrastructure, energy transition, and traditional project finance sectors.

At Milken’s Global Conference, a panel of senior investors named residential second-lien ABS the most attractive risk-return in credit. As a securitized products executive search firm, ABF Global Search is mapping the talent build-out that follows.

Private credit has crossed $3 trillion globally, but treating it as one market distorts risk and misguides hiring. Here is what segmentation means for asset-based finance recruiting and talent strategy in 2026.

Armen Panossian’s Milken 2026 remarks on credit cycle risk, the Oaktree-Brookfield merger, and BDC flows — and what they signal for private credit hiring in the second half of 2026.

Parafin has upsized its warehouse credit facility with SVB, EverBank, and Trinity Capital — a deal that signals how embedded lending platforms are maturing into structured credit and what it means for asset-based finance recruiting.

Asset-based finance spans a $20 trillion private credit market built on four alpha pillars — balance sheet arbitrage, origination depth, structural engineering, and active cycle management. Here is what they mean for talent.

A $2 trillion CRE refinancing wave, spreads 90 bps wide of IG corporates, and retreating bank capital are converging in 2026. Here is what the real estate debt super-cycle means for hiring and talent strategy.

Bruce Richards’ twelve-point market framework signals a defining direct lending vintage in 2026/2027 — with clear implications for private credit executive search and team-building strategy.