Ed Goldstein
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- Full Name
- Ed Goldstein
- Title
- Partner, CIO, Coller Credit Secondaries
- Firm
- Coller Capital
- Firm Type
- Private markets secondaries investment manager
- Investment Stage
- Secondary transactions in private credit and private markets; LP-led and GP-led transactions, continuation vehicles, and fund lending
- Check Size
- Coller’s disclosed credit secondaries transactions range from a $40 million Cathay Life position to multi-billion-dollar continuation vehicles; in a 2024 webinar, Coller described GP-led investment sizes as commonly $100–200 million up to $400–500 million for multi-asset transactions
- Target Company Profile
- Private credit funds, LP portfolios, GP-led continuation vehicles, and diversified portfolios of senior secured, first-lien, unitranche, mezzanine, and performing credit assets
- Sector Focus
- Private credit secondaries, senior direct lending, performing credit, mezzanine, distressed/opportunistic credit, asset-based finance, NAV lending
- Geographic Focus
- Global, with disclosed activity across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific
- Location
- New York
Background
Ed Goldstein is a Partner and Chief Investment Officer for Coller Credit Secondaries at Coller Capital, based in the firm’s New York office. Coller Capital describes itself as one of the world’s leading investors in the secondary market for private assets, offering private equity and private credit secondaries funds for institutional and private investors.
Goldstein joined Coller Capital in 2009. Before Coller, he was a Managing Director at GSO Capital Partners, working from the firm’s London and New York offices with responsibility for debt origination. Earlier in his career, he worked at Credit Suisse as a Director in the Investment Banking division.
He holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago. At Coller, he is part of the senior team that built the firm’s dedicated credit secondaries platform, including Coller Credit Opportunities I, which closed in 2022 with about $1.4 billion of commitments, and Coller Credit Opportunities II, part of a $6.8 billion credit-platform fundraising cycle announced in July 2025.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Focuses on private credit secondaries, especially LP-led portfolio purchases, GP-led continuation vehicles, and complex liquidity solutions for sellers.
- CCO II targets senior direct lending and high-quality performing credit investments across both LP-led and GP-led opportunities.
- Coller’s credit strategy emphasizes risk-adjusted returns, resilient performance through cycles, diversified exposure, and careful underwriting of underlying credit assets.
- Coller’s private credit secondaries page states that success in the market requires understanding “the underlying loans that sit in these funds” and how the GP manages them, with superior data analysis and analytical capability described as key.
- Goldstein has highlighted that private credit secondaries remain a young, undercapitalized, fast-growing market, with liquidity needs among LPs and GPs driving transaction flow.
- He has also pointed to specialization within credit secondaries, including senior direct lending, distressed/opportunistic credit, asset-based finance, and NAV lending.
Notable Investments
- Ping An Overseas Holdings credit portfolio: In July 2021, Coller investment and co-investment vehicles led a $680 million private credit secondaries transaction for a credit portfolio managed by Ping An; Coller invested $580 million, with an Asian institution investing $100 million alongside.
- Cathay Life Insurance: In December 2022, CCO I agreed to acquire a $40 million position in a 2017-vintage fund focused on U.S. and European mezzanine investments.
- Abry Advanced Securities Fund III continuation vehicle: In August 2024, Coller led a $1.6 billion GP-led credit transaction creating a continuation vehicle for Abry Advanced Securities Fund III, described as the largest credit continuation vehicle created to date at the time.
- American National senior direct lending portfolio: In April 2025, Coller acquired a $1.6 billion senior direct lending portfolio from American National, comprising LP positions in 44 U.S. credit funds and exposure to more than 3,000 loans and nearly 1,500 borrowers.
- Benefit Street Partners: In September 2025, Coller led a $2.3 billion GP-led continuation vehicle supporting a portfolio of performing private credit assets.
- TPG Twin Brook Capital Partners: In August 2025, Coller led a $3 billion credit-focused continuation vehicle for a diversified portfolio of floating-rate, senior secured, sponsor-backed loans from TPG Twin Brook’s 2016 and 2018 vintage funds.
- Ares U.S. Direct Lending: In February 2026, Coller led a continuation vehicle with more than $1.3 billion in total commitments for Ares’ 2018-vintage U.S. Direct Lending fund.
- Abry Private Debt portfolio acquisition: In May 2026, Abry Private Debt acquired a $330 million diversified private credit portfolio in partnership with Coller Capital.
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