Credit confidence across the cycle
Navigating the fast-evolving private credit sector in all types of market conditions requires experience and skill.
Aberdeen currently has a team of over 21 dedicated private credit investors, with an average of 19 years’ experience. So you can invest confidently at any stage of the credit cycle, backed by a team that’s always focused on your long-term interests.
All data as at 1 August 2025
Differentiated origination
We are experts in originating small to mid-sized private credit deals (from £30m - £150m), giving you access to assets that can deliver genuine portfolio diversification.
By seeking out high-quality opportunities across corporate debt, commercial real estate lending, infrastructure debt and fund finance, we can help you harness the unique attributes of Investment Grade private credit to achieve your yield, risk and term requirements.
Disciplined underwriting
Disciplined underwriting is critical to long-term success in private credit. That’s why we have a robust internal methodology to assess private credit opportunities – investing primarily in deals we rate as BBB or better.
Through this rigorous approach, we have seen zero loan losses since launching our first private credit fund over a decade ago.
What we offer our clients
Commercial Real Estate Debt
Commercial real estate debt finances property across all sectors, including office, industrial and retail. All our lending is bespoke, with downside protection, secured on the property itself. We aim for attractive, medium to long-term duration with reliable and predictable coupons, by focusing on high quality deals with compelling illiquidity pick-ups over similar rated corporate bonds.
Corporate Debt
Private corporate debt is a growing and dynamic market that is being driven by companies looking for more efficient financing means than traditional bank and public bonds to fund their growth. We use our robust underwriting process to find best-in-class debt opportunities across currencies, ratings and sectors. Our aim is to help you achieve significant yield pick-up compared to public corporate debt, while being supported by strong covenant protection on every deal.
Fund Finance
We provide short-term credit facilities to private equity funds so that they can bridge investment requirements without having to draw capital from their investors. For our own investors, fund finance investments can be a compelling source of strong, risk-adjusted returns, offering an attractive yield spread over public credit, while maintaining Investment Grade credit ratings.
Infrastructure Debt
Infrastructure debt finances socio-economic projects that often have monopoly-like characteristics. As a result, they provide the potential for high-quality cash flows uncorrelated to other investments. We target assets in sustainable sectors, such as green energy and transportation. With time horizons up to 45 years, the sector can offer some unique opportunities for achieving long-term, inflation-linked yields.
Meet the team

Neil Odom-Haslett
Head of Private Credit

Martin Barnewell
Head of Commercial Real Estate Lending

Alex Campbell
Head of Infrastructure Debt

Shelley Morrison
Head of Fund Finance
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Risk warning
The value of investments, and the income from them, can go down as well as up and an investor may get back less than the amount invested. Past performance is not a guide to future results.