Private credit's 'wake-up' call (with Charlie Viola)

The Money Puzzle · Oct 20, 2026 · 26m · transcript

This is the year reality bites for private credit investors: Put simply, it was too good to be true for several years. More recently, just as everyday investors piled into the space, the numbers have turned against it.

Charlie Viola of Viola Private Wealth joins Associate Editor, James Kirby, in this episode.

In today's show, we cover:

Private credit shake-up: The Metrics Credit affair

Should we compare private credit to shares or bonds?

Keeping an eye on the fallout from the Bathla collapse

Passive investing and the problem of poor quality IPOs

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