What’s News in Earnings: Can AI Investments Help Private Credit’s Recovery?

earnings新闻快报:AI投资能否助力私募信贷的复苏?

WSJ What’s News

2026-08-01

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Bonus Episode for July 31. Investment firms like Blackstone, KKR and Blue Owl have been battered over the past year by a client exodus from private-credit funds. WSJ lead financial reporter AnnaMaria Andriotis discusses the state of the industry’s recovery from a surge in redemption requests from rattled investors and whether these firms’ investments in AI can help them recover from blows to the software sector. WSJ reporter Matt Wirz, who covers credit, hosts this special bonus episode of What's News in Earnings, where we dig into companies’ earnings reports and analyst calls to find out what’s going on under the hood of the American economy. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • Hello, listeners.

  • It is July 31st.

  • I'm Matt Wertz, reporter for The Wall Street Journal,

  • and this is What's News in Earnings, our look at some of the biggest themes standing out this earnings season.

  • It's been a tough year for private investment firms like Blackstone, Blue Owl, KKR.

  • Seven of the largest of these firms now manage over $5 trillion.

  • They use that to bankroll everything from credit cards to corporate loans to construction of data centers

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