Private Debt

Our private debt investment solutions are designed to help you achieve stable income streams, low volatility, portfolio diversification, and consistent premium returns with modest drawdowns over the long term*.

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Private debt for profitable growth

Our European private debt platform delivers diversified solutions across:

  • Senior Corporate Debt and Direct Lending,
  • Commercial Real Estate Debt,
  • and Leveraged Loans. 


Backed by Amundi’s leading Fixed Income expertise, we provide direct access to Eurozone mid market companies with the agility of a dedicated team.


We are committed to supporting sustainable growth, offering diversification, real economy exposure, and reduced volatility without compromising performance.
 

Private debt for profitable growth

2025.10.27 - Private Debt - Thierry Vallière - EN

A leading presence on the private debt market

€7.2 Bn

assets under management1

35

dedicated professionals1

+€1 Bn

invested each year on average1

Discover our large range of investment solutions tailored to your needs
Find the right solution amongst our private markets, alternative and real assets offering.

Our capabilities in private debt

We offer a wide range of private debt solutions in: 

We are a leading provider of Senior secured Corporate Private Debt in the Eurozone mid-market, offering investors access to diversified assets with attractive yields above traditional liquid markets. 

Our senior impact debt strategy reinforces our ESG commitment by establishing sustainability indicators and supporting issuers through sustainability-linked financing and innovative impact contributions.
 
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Additionally, our Direct Lending Impact program enables investors to seize opportunities in the transformation of the agriculture and agro-food sectors.

Our dedicated investment team is made up of experienced corporate finance professionals located across Europe.

Commercial Real Estate Debt provides diversified exposure to the Eurozone senior real estate debt market, offering investors a defensive, Investment-Grade equivalent asset class with an attractive risk/reward profile.


Our experienced investment managers implement a robust and flexible management process, based on a multi-expert model, collaborating with Amundi Real Estate, Corporate Private Debt and ESG teams, to build strong convictions and capture relative value in an evolving market environment.

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The loans are mainly backed by core+ underlying real estate assets and benefit from a particularly favourable Solvency 2 treatment.

Since its inception in 2015, our Leveraged Loan platform has invested in hundreds of European senior secured loans transactions, focusing on syndicated loans mainly issued by large LBOs in Europe.


Our dedicated investment management team brings over 22 years of experience in the European leveraged loan market, supported by an established network in the primary and secondary markets and close relationship with Private Equity sponsors.

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We offer a competitive investment proposition designed to optimise cash distribution whilst minimising drawdowns, based on relative value, fundamental research, technical market expertise and a thorough credit process.

Responsible investment at the heart of our approach

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Responsible investment at the heart of our approach

Driven by the ambition of collective and sustainable progress, we enable our clients’ investments to support local businesses, job creation, and the reindustrialization of regions and communities.

Being close to decision-makers and at the core of action, private debt represents a “shorthand” to the real economy, facilitating tomorrow’s environmental and social transitions.

Responsible Investment is at the heart of our private debt approach. We select assets that contribute to the energy transition, and aligned with the group’s ESG policy, guided by a robust and proven ESG model developed by our dedicated ESG team**.

Discover the highlights of our actions as a Responsible Investor 
To learn more about the governance, policy and strategy that guide the integration of ESG criteria in the management and investment policy of Amundi Alternative and Real Assets, please consult our latest publication:

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Find our real & alternative assets

Our private debt platform invests €1 bn on average each year in these 3 strategies:
corporate debt, leveraged loans, real estate debt

Our capabilities in Alternative & Real Assets

1.    Source: Amundi as at end of June 2025 
*Expected returns are not guaranteed and past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investors are subject to capital loss, liquidity and credit risk. Past performance is not an indicator of future results.
**Please refer to the Amundi Responsible Investment Policy and the Amundi Sustainable Finance Disclosure Statement available at www.amundi.com