Private debt in Europe: fit for purpose

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Arrow Global CEO Zach Lewy explains the attraction of private debt in Europe and why higher-return strategies like distressed debt are less risky than some people think.

There’s a consensus now that the different forms of private debt yield a healthy variable spread above reference rates. Investors are accessing yields solidly in the double-digits for well-protected investments.

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Zach Lewy

Zach Lewy

CEO, CIO, Fund Principal

Zach has more than 25 years of executive experience in investment management and asset servicing. He founded Arrow Global in 2005 and has since led the business as Group CEO and CIO, transforming it into a leading Pan-European investment manager specialising in private credit and real estate. Under Zach’s leadership, Arrow manages more than €110 billion of serviced assets across Western Europe and generates alpha across alternative asset classes, including opportunistic credit, real estate, and lending.

Zach has supervised over 3,000 deals at Arrow and plays a key role as lead Principal in Arrow’s fund manager. Prior to founding Arrow, he was an Officer of Sallie Mae, a Director at Vertex (the BPO division of United Utilities), and a Founder and Executive Director of 7C (a U.K. BPO company acquired by Vertex). He has also served as Chair of the U.K. Debt Buyers Association and the Chair of SCOR. In 2010, he was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Zach graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Economics with Honours and a Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics with Honours.

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