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Regal Funds rustles up family offices for new private credit arm

Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood

May 22, 2022 – 9.35pm

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Soon-to-be-listed Regal Funds Management is readying an assault on the Australian private credit market, starting with a $200 million-odd fund slated to launch on August 1.

Street Talk can reveal equities shop Regal Funds has kicked off talks with a bunch of family offices to seed the new strategy and hired Goldman Sachs special situations veteran Jacob Poke to spearhead its investment team.

Anthony Macdonald is a Chanticleer columnist. He is a former Street Talk co-editor and has 10 years' experience as a business journalist and worked at PwC, auditing and advising financial services companies. Connect with Anthony on Twitter. Email Anthony at a.macdonald@afr.com

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones. Email Sarah at sarah.thompson@afr.com

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column. Email Kanika at kanika.sood@afr.com.au