Infrastructure debt has become an increasingly prominent component of many portfolios. SLC Management takes a deeper look into the market forces, potential benefits and outlooks driving this investment universe.
SLC Fixed Income
We believe that private credit markets offer investors the potential for excess spread and diversification through specialized transactions and niche sectors.
Potential benefits for investors
Investors can gain access to actively managed investment grade and high yield private credit strategies, which can provide:
- Higher yields than comparable public issues
- Diversification benefits by accessing transactions and issuers not available in public markets
- Risk management through deal structures that are typically more rigorous than public market transactions
17 years
Average industry experience of investment team members
$57 Billion
AUM*
50+
Private credit professionals**
40 years
Investing in private credit
* As of March 31, 2026
** Investment professionals include Portfolio Managers, Traders, Research Analysts, Portfolio Strategists, and Investment Strategists, globally, under Sun Life Capital Management (Canada) Inc., and Sun Life Capital Management (U.S.) LLC.
Helping clients achieve their investment objectives
Experienced teams with deep private credit expertise
Our investment teams have specialized in private debt for more than 40 years, offering the necessary skills to navigate a nuanced asset class.
Offerings across the credit quality spectrum
Investors can gain access to privately issued investment grade bonds, as well as high yield securities such as senior bank loans, high yield bonds, mezzanine debt and distressed debt.
Long track record of value creation
Our strategies have achieved excess spreads with lower default rates than their representative benchmarks over time.
Investment process
Our rigorous investment process aims to generate outperformance over time while helping our institutional clients achieve their long-term objectives.
Investment process
1. Origination & sourcing
Prospective investments are sourced through a network that includes commercial and investment banks, independent brokers, private equity firms, developers, other lenders and potential investments directly from issuers.
2. Underwriting & due diligence
All potential investments undergo a rigorous analytical underwriting process. Prospective investments that pass a preliminary review are researched further through on-site meetings with management teams as well as extensive due diligence processes.
3. Portfolio monitoring
Portfolios are monitored on a continual basis and through formal quarterly and annual reviews focused on covenants compliance, financial statements, ratings reviews and recommendations.
4. Credit risk management
Credit risk is managed continually through an independent governance structure and via proprietary scorecards and risk ratings.
5. Daily valuation
Our investment grade private credit funds are valued daily, based on monthly deal-by-deal valuation from a third party and, ensuring transparency for investors.
Learn more about our strategies and teams below, and request our factsheets for more details.
Investment grade private fixed income
Private Credit strategies – offered by SLC Management, one of the largest private fixed income teams in North America – provide our clients with fixed rate, investment grade debt instruments, with terms from five to 30 years. They include investments in corporate debt, infrastructure debt, and structured credit.
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Valter Lourenço
Managing Director, Head of Private Fixed Income Portfolio Management
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Related investment insights
Q1 2026: Investment Grade Private Credit update
May 08, 2026
Looking deeper into liquidity, AI factors in the market
Issuance momentum carried into the beginning of the year, with notable year-over-year volume increases for the quarter. Meanwhile, continued headline focus on specific corners of stress in private credit, plus secular issues related to AI, have created conditions in which deeper analysis of this investment universe could generate opportunities.
Q4 2025: Investment Grade (IG) Private Credit update
February 19, 2026
Tuning out the white noise in private credit
Placement volumes remained healthy in Q4 2025, powered by strong investor demand. This occurred despite an uncertain macro environment, and recent, highly public defaults in specific corners of the private credit universe merit a more comprehensive look at these asset classes.
The assets under management (AUM) represent the combined AUM of Sun Life Capital Management (Canada) Inc., Sun Life Capital Management (U.S) LLC, Crescent Capital Group, BentallGreenOak, InfraRed Capital Partners, and Advisors Asset Management.