Benefit Street Partners (BSP), Franklin Templeton’s private credit specialist investment manager with $92 billion in assets under management, has appointed Anant Kumar into the newly created role of global investment strategist, effective immediately.
In this capacity, Kumar will lead the development of research-driven market insights and content for investors and other key external stakeholders. He will collaborate with the BSP investment teams across all strategies and geographies, as well as the business development, investor relations, marketing and communications functions, to help investors navigate and understand opportunities in the growing and diversifying global private credit industry.
Based in the United States, Kumar remains the firm’s head of credit research, overseeing a dedicated team of more than 20 sector focused analysts, and as a portfolio manager for Franklin Templeton and BSP’s two closed-end interval funds (FBLUX and FBSPX), which provide d
