Frank Danieli oversees MA Financial Group’s Global Credit Solutions platform, directing private credit and lending strategies spanning asset-backed finance, direct asset lending, and corporate debt across Australia and the United States. He previously established the firm's performing credit and lending franchise, including listed vehicles such as the MA Credit Income Trust.
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Danieli: Specialty finance like legal disbursement has near-zero correlation to rates
“We have other exposures like our specialty finance books, legal disbursement funding, insurance premium funding that have almost no correlation to interest rates and unemployment.”
Frank DanieliJul 16, 2026▶ 18:34Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
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Danieli: Red teams alter MA Financial deal terms 25% to 30% of the time
“The changes happen regularly around deal structures and term. It might be 25 to 30% of the time, pretty regularly, that that's causing changes to the structure.”
Frank DanieliJul 16, 2026▶ 32:22Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
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Danieli: MA Financial Avoids Direct Sponsor-Backed Lending in the US
“We're not trying to do direct sponsor-backed lending here in the US. What we've done is to apply an asset-based finance way of thinking to get some exposure to that sector.”
Frank DanieliJul 16, 2026▶ 42:08Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
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Danieli: MA Financial Remains One-Third Staff Owned Post-Listing
“While we're listed, we're still a third owned by staff.”
Frank DanieliJul 16, 2026▶ 44:33Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
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Danieli: Moelis Australia held 50% post-GFC market share in restructuring advisory
“In particular, in the post-financial crisis era, the platform in Australia had about a 50% market share advising on these situations, the recapitalizations occurring from that post-GFC era through to today”
Frank DanieliJul 16, 2026▶ 4:40Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
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Danieli: Australia's Big Four Banks Historically Controlled 80% of Lending
“There's the big four banks in Australia, and if you go back, they controlled 80% of lending.”
Frank DanieliJul 16, 2026▶ 5:46Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
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Danieli: Australian superannuation manages $4T across institutional and self-managed funds
“That's about four trillion dollars today. It breaks down about 75% into large institutional-style funds and about a trillion dollars in self-managed funds, which are for high net worth individuals or high income earning professionals.”
Frank DanieliJul 16, 2026▶ 7:43Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
Disclosure
MA Financial uses historical distress checklists in IC papers
“We have in our IC papers a bunch of checklists, and the checklists are all about saying, what are the things we've seen That have correlated with things that have gone wrong before.”
Frank DanieliJul 16, 2026▶ 37:28Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
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