How to squash a private credit ‘cockroach’? Ask these 10 questions

With new private credit investment funds popping up everywhere, we asked the experts to reveal the questions they ask before they invest in the booming sector.

If you want to invest in a private credit fund you have to be prepared to ask the manager for information. Michaela Pollock

Andrew HobbsWealth reporter

Updated Dec 30, 2025 – 2.29pm, first published at Dec 27, 2025 – 5.00am

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With demand for private credit surging – by one estimate the size of the market in Australia jumped 400 per cent in the past year – more and more funds have sprung up.

And every single provider, from MA Financial to Remara, has an excellent-sounding explanation for why they are different from all the others.

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Andrew HobbsWealth reporterAndrew Hobbs covers self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), financial planning, retirement, inheritance, tax, personal finance and, sometimes, the Perth Bears. He has been a financial journalist for 30 years, previously at Bloomberg and AAP.