Danieli: Specialty finance like legal disbursement has near-zero correlation to rates
Frank Danieli · Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511) · Jul 16, 2026 · at 18:34
Frank Danieli is Head of Global Credit Solutions at MA Financial Group, explaining how the firm constructs diversified and uncorrelated private credit portfolios.
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“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.”
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