Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Iñaki Aldasoro Author-X-Name-First: Iñaki Author-X-Name-Last: Aldasoro Author-Name: Sebastian Doerr Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Doerr Author-Name: Karamfil Todorov Author-X-Name-First: Karamfil Author-X-Name-Last: Todorov Title: Retail investors in private credit Abstract: Private credit is poised for wider participation from retail investors through the rapid growth of business development companies and, more recently, private credit exchange-traded funds (ETFs). ETFs may introduce price signals that make the opaque private credit market more transparent, especially during downturns when discounts to net asset value could be large and persistent.The rise of retail investment vehicles may also give impetus to the creation of secondary markets for currently illiquid private loans, which could erode the benefits of private credit as an asset class. Length: 8 pages Creation-Date: 2025-07-09 File-URL: https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull106.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Full PDF document File-URL: https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull106.htm File-Format: text/html Number: 106 Handle: RePEc:bis:bisblt:106