Speakers

Sanjay Mistry is Head of Alternative Credit at the PPF and was the interim Head of Alternatives (2019-2022) until that role was disbanded.

As a senior portfolio manager with almost 30 years investment experience Sanjay is responsible for setting the strategy and all investments within a portfolio, spanning all sub-investment grade credit markets. His mandate covers credit investments across public/private, performing/non-performing, long/short, corporate/infrastructure/real estate/asset backed sectors for the PPF's balance sheet. Investments may be on a direct or non-direct basis across primary and secondary transactions, through a combination of SPVs, fund of one and commingled vehicles. Soon after joining the PPF, Sanjay worked with the CIO to redesign and expand the PPF’s Alternatives team to its current form.

Today Sanjay is also a member of the ACC’s Investor Manager Committee, PRI’s Private Debt Advisory Council, MFA's Institutional Investor Advisory Council and the BVCA's Private Credit Forum.

Prior to the PPF Sanjay spent over 20 years with Mercer, having begun his career with Eagle Star Life Assurance. At Mercer he was initially in the advisory and manager research business focussed on portfolio strategy, portfolio construction and investment implementation matters along with due diligence of primary, secondary and co-investments initially in private equity before shifting to private debt investing around the GFC and then into Mercer’s discretionary fund of fund’s business. By the time he left Mercer he was their global head of private debt.

Over the decades Sanjay has completed numerous successful direct investments, managed several commingled and single investor vehicles, building a strong track record of outperformance.