Going from headlines to real insights at SuperReturn Private Credit North America

Private credit has outgrown the easy narrative. Spreads are normalising, real estate values have pulled back roughly 25 percent and banks are still retrenching, yet capital keeps flowing into direct lending, asset-backed finance and evergreen structures. The question for every LP and GP in the market right now is the same: where is the real opportunity, and where is the risk hiding.

SuperReturn Private Credit North America answers that question over three days, November 16-18 2026, at Convene on Madison Avenue, New York. This is where the market's sharpest operators cut through the noise on direct lending, asset-backed finance, evergreens and the private wealth channel, credit secondaries and global allocations.

What's on the agenda

The event opens with a dedicated Asset-Backed Finance Summit, covering:

• A decade-in-review look at ABF's shift from public to private structures
• Hard-asset and real-asset credit opportunities
• An LP-only session on the reporting standards investors should demand
• CLOs, consumer and housing specialty finance, and niche strategies including IP, royalties and receivables

From there, the main conference digs into the questions shaping the next 12 months. Day one separates signal from noise on the market's bigger-picture debate, then moves through the evolving LP playbook, volatility in the US middle market, and a run of AI-focused sessions on data transparency and intelligent reporting. Evergreen structures and wealth channel innovation get a reality check on liquidity, and the day closes with a US versus Europe relative value debate.

Day two turns toward where the pressure is actually showing up:

• Distressed and opportunistic credit, plus private real estate credit
• Secondaries as a liquidity solution amid soft exit markets
• NAV lending and the maturity wall
• Sponsored versus sponsorless debate in the lower mid-market
• Capital solutions as an emerging sub-asset class
• A North American view on global allocations

Beyond the main stage

LP-only breakfasts and discussion groups run throughout, giving allocators a closed-door forum on manager selection, wealth channel products and ABF standards. A Women in Private Credit networking lunch and evening drinks receptions each day keep the conversation going well beyond the sessions.

Why you should be in the room

This is the time where private credit has to prove its underwriting discipline, not just its growth story. If you need to know what's next for the asset class, and who's actually positioned to capture it, this is where that conversation happens first.