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Credit funds at a glance (August 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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CFOs stage comeback as fundraising tool for managers
1 year ago
Collateralised fund obligations are coming back into fashion, with Churchill Asset Management the latest firm to launch such an offering after announcing a $700 million deal last month. -
Carlyle launches decarbonisation-linked financing initiative
1 year ago
Carlyle Group says its credit division has launched a decarbonisation-linked financing programme, having closed the first two loans under this initiative -
Czech mate: Voya IM agrees to buy $5 billion US direct lender
1 year ago
Private markets and alternative capabilities have been a “strategic focus and growth driver” for Voya and the firm says its new direct lending team will “complement our leading fixed income platform and accelerate the expansion of our private and leveraged credit franchise across institutional, insurance and retail channels” -
JP Morgan AM names head of private credit secondaries
1 year ago
The firm says the hire reflects “significant demand for secondaries strategies from clients across the globe, reflecting the need for greater liquidity to take advantage of opportunities as private debt markets mature" -
KKR reports $115 billion dry powder as it changes public markets business name
1 year ago
KKR reported strong deployment and dry powder figures but fee-related earnings came short of expectations -
Arena collects $930 million for second opportunistic credit fund
1 year ago
Arena has made a final close on a fund and surpassed the target it set at its first close in July last year -
Ares plans four credit fund launches amid strong deployment
1 year ago
Ares Management benefitted from strong private credit deployment in the quarted and unveiled plans to raise its sixth European direct lending fund, second flagship closed-end alternative credit fund and third US junior capital direct lending fund -
Carlyle's global credit business becomes largest share of firm's fee-earning AUM
1 year ago
Carlyle has held a first close on its second revolving credit fund, while saying its CLOs are ‘well positioned’ and it does not expect management fee deferrals anytime soon -
Fund managers join forces on US asset-based lending platform
1 year ago
Castlelake has teamed up with Aequum Capital Founder to launch an asset-based lending platform, which will lend in ticket sizes of $1-10 million -
Tikehau collects €3.3 billion for fifth European direct lending strategy
1 year ago
Tikehau Capital revealed in its H1 2022 results it reached a final close for its fifth European direct lending fund in July, collecting €3.3 billion for the strategy -
First Eagle wraps up fundraising for $1 billion direct lending fund
1 year ago
The strategy will target 6-9% net internal rate of return for its unlevered sleeve and 8-11% net IRR of return for its levered sleeve -
BlackRock closes £1.7 billion private debt fund with wide mandate for UK pensions
1 year ago
The firm has deployed around 60% of the fund, which invests across US and European direct lending, US and European real estate debt and the firm’s global opportunistic strategy -
Alecta "closes the circle" as it invests with PGGM in Nordea SRT
1 year ago
Joint venture partners Alecta and PGGM Investments have printed a €2.5 billion significiant risk transfer with Nordea in what marks the first Simple, Transparent and Standardised-compliant SRT to reference pan-Nordic assets -
US direct lender plots expansion into broadly syndicated loan CLOs
1 year ago
The US CLO manager universe looks set to expand further with sources indicating a US middle market direct lender is exploring launching a BSL CLO platform -
Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
1 year ago
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions -
Five credit managers win nearly $1 billion from UK pension pool
1 year ago
Five private credit funds emerged as winners after UK pension pool Border to Coast revealed $1 billion in a wide variety of private credit commitments -
Monroe goes on fundraising trail for second opportunistic private credit fund
1 year ago
Monroe Capital has incorporated vehicles for its second opportunistic private credit fund, just two months after closing its inaugural fund, according to regulatory filings -
CSAM closes inaugural global direct lending fund with $3bn deployable capital
1 year ago
Credit Suisse Asset Management has held a final close of its inaugural private credit opportunities fund at $1.67 billion. With leverage, the fund will have ‘in excess of $3 billion’ to deploy -
KKR collects $2.1 billion for inaugural asset-based finance fund
1 year ago
KKR is making a push in the $4.5 trillion asset based finance market, which its co-heads of private credit see as "one of the most compelling and fastest-growing opportunities” -
Calamos and Aksia eye CLOs as part of new multi-credit interval fund
1 year ago
Calamos Advisors and Aksia have teamed up to launch a closed-ended interval fund that can invest across several areas of credit -
SRT market keeps pumping deals as Greek and German banks free up capital
1 year ago
Dealflow in significant risk transfers is picking up, with a €2.7 billion Greek mortgage and SME lending deal and a €2.1 billion German corporate loan transaction printing in recent days -
John Hancock and Marathon join forces on ABL fund with structured credit bucket
1 year ago
John Hancock Investment Management has teamed up with Marathon Asset Management for an asset-based lending fund, which can invest a portion of capital in liquid structured credit such as CLOs -
Apera raises €1.27 billion for second European private debt fund
1 year ago
European mid-market direct lender Apera exceeded an initial €800 million target for the vehicle -
Mid market CLO league tables: KeyBank notches first new issue credit
1 year ago
Managers priced one new issue and one reset in the mid market CLO space in June for a total of $603.1 million, the lowest monthly figure since January when $590 million was priced
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