Tor Investment Management’s Patrik Edsparr on private credit markets of Asia Pacific
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Patrik Edsparr, Chief Investment Officer & Co-Founder, Tor Investment Management
June 2026
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In this exclusive interview, Patrik discusses the dynamics playing out across private credit markets of Asia Pacific, the challenges with navigating the opportunity set across the region’s many jurisdictions and what the key ingredients are to achieving success. Patrik also shares his perspectives on credit risk and areas of vulnerability in U.S. private credit and the role an allocation to Asia Pacific can play at this phase of the cycle as an effective diversifier.
Watch the full interview where we ask Patrik:
What are the key differences between the private credit markets in Asia-Pacific and the U.S.?
Why do borrowers in Asia-Pacific want private credit solutions?
What are the key opportunities and risks in Asia-Pacific private credit?
How do you think about credit risk in the U.S. and where do you see the greatest areas of vulnerability?
How does de-globalisation influence where you see opportunities emerging across Asia-Pacific?
Patrik Edsparr, Chief Investment Officer & Co-Founder, Tor Investment Management
As Chief Investment Officer of Tor Investment Management, Patrik is responsible for portfolio construction, risk management and chairs the Investment Committee. Patrik has over 30 years of direct finance and investment management experience.
Prior to co-founding Tor in 2012, Patrik spent most of his professional career at JP Morgan Chase & Co., building and managing the Proprietary Positioning and Principal Investing Division. At JP Morgan, his responsibilities included the distressed, mezzanine and special-situations investments across North America, Europe, and Asia. Patrik was a long-serving member of the Executive Committee and the Investment Bank’s Management Committee.
In addition, he served on the Capital and Risk Committees. Previous roles at JP Morgan included Co-head of North American Markets (2004–2006) and Global Co-head of Fixed Income (2006–2008). In 2008 Patrik joined Citadel Investment Group as the Global Head of Fixed Income and CEO of Citadel Europe. From 2010-2011, he spent a year as Visiting Fellow at the Bank of England providing advice on a variety of market-structure and capital issues.
Patrik holds a PhD in Financial Economics from MIT, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He received an MSc in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics, and a BA from Uppsala University. He was a lieutenant in the Swedish Army, where he served at the Swedish Defence Language School. Patrik has also served as a Non-Executive Director of MTS S.p.A. and Nomura International (and chaired its Board Risk Committee).
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