Asset-based finance is private lending backed by pools of assets that produce their own cash flows, such as auto loans, equipment leases or receivables, rather than by one company's earnings. Definitions vary.
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In private credit, a loan can be repaid by ten thousand strangers. It's called asset-based finance. Say a fund lends a hundred million against ten thousand equipment leases. Each lease pays every month. Those payments repay the loan, bit by bit. Not one company's earnings. Thousands of small payers. Pools can be car loans, equipment, or bills owed to a business. So the return depends on how many keep paying. Definitions vary from manager to manager. So why do investors care? Its risk rests on the assets and how the deal is built, not on one company. Not one borrower. Ten thousand.
In the glossary: Asset-based finance
A simple example with round numbers, not advice. Terms vary by fund.
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