The Asset Manager Whose Private Credit Fund Just Capped Withdrawals. Should BlackRock Investors Worry?
Key takeaways
- Reuben Gregg Brewer, The Motley Fool Sun, May 17, 2026 at 9:35 PM GMT+7 4 min read Black Rock (NYSE: BLK) is one of the world s largest asset managers, with $13.9 trillion of assets under management.
- HPS Corporate Lending Fund is a non-traded business development company (BDC) run by BlackRock.
- Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need.
Reuben Gregg Brewer, The Motley Fool Sun, May 17, 2026 at 9:35 PM GMT+7 4 min read Black Rock (NYSE: BLK) is one of the world s largest asset managers, with $13.9 trillion of assets under management. It offers a wide variety of products and services, so no single product is likely to have a huge impact on the overall business. That said, the company s $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund just did something that investors should keep a close eye on.
HPS Corporate Lending Fund is a non-traded business development company (BDC) run by BlackRock. It basically makes loans to smaller companies that lack access to other forms of capital. There are publicly traded BDCs you can buy, with the big draw being yields that can reach 10% or even more. That yield, however, comes with the risk that smaller companies often struggle to make interest payments during recessions and industry-specific downturns.
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