The Institutional Risk Analyst

Of note, JPM's CFO Barnum said in response to a question that “I haven't heard anything to suggest that the private [credit] deals are performing differently from the public deals. It probably is true at the margin that some of the new direct lending initiatives involve underwriting at slightly higher expected losses, and that's significant because, as we've been discussing here, the wholesale charge-off rate has been very, very low for a long time."

As reflected in the valuations for JPM, WFC and BXMT, institutional investors are still not that concerned about commercial real est losses