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Direct lender Raven separates from Metlife just one year after it was acquired
1 month ago
Raven Capital Management, a New York and Santa Monica-based private credit specialist, has parted ways with parent company Metlife after just a year under its ownership -
Private credit funds are more stable, lower levered and more regulated than you might think
2 months ago
The private credit market’s steady and impressive growth has caused some pundits to voice concerns about an eventual bubble. While we expect there to be more dispersion in private credit funds’ performance in the coming years, we don’t see signs that a bubble is about to burst. -
Benefit Street Partners raises USD 4.7bn for latest flagship direct lending fund
3 months ago
Benefit Street Partners held the final close of its fifth flagship direct lending fund — dubbed BSP Debt Fund V — with USD 4.7bn of investable capital -
CLO funds make best of a bad situation
1 year ago
It can’t get any worse can it? Well, it did in 2022, when credit spreads kept moving wider. Still, CLO funds were able to withstand the pressure, and they outperformed other credit strategies -
HPS raises $12 billion for fifth junior capital fund
1 year ago
HPS Investment Partners has closed its fifth junior capital solutions fund, HPS Strategic Investment Partners V, at $12 billion. With leverage, the strategy has $17 billion investable capital -
Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
1 year ago
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs), Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. -
Nassau adds $3.6 billion credit firm Angel Island to its platform
1 year ago
Under the deal, Angel Island will become a subsidiary of Nassau’s asset management unit, Nassau Asset Management -
"Ironically, the better prospects for floating rate assets leads some to wait for even better returns"
1 year ago
Ironically, the better prospects for floating rate assets leads some to wait for even better returns -
Fund performance: Wake us up when September ends
1 year ago
After a resurgent August, credit markets hit a rough patch in September, with every Creditflux index posting negative returns, and only 12.9% of funds in our listings showing a positive return. -
MUFG welcomes two senior originators to new US direct lending team
1 year ago
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has made two senior appointments to its new direct lending business -
"Extreme volatility can push BSL yields close to mid market levels, although that trade never lasts"
1 year ago
The two segments of the loan market are on different paths as mid-market volumes rise -
Oaktree buys majority stake in 17Capital
2 years ago
Oaktree Capital Management has bought a majority stake in net-asset-value financing specialist 17 Capital -
Spac pricing hints at Sound Point's growth ambitions in loan market
2 years ago
Sound Point Acquisition Corp has priced a $225 million IPO, signalling that credit asset manager Sound Point Capital Management is looking to expand its platform -
GSO co-founders reunite as Hunter Point buys minority stake in Iron Park
2 years ago
Two of the three GSO Capital Partners co-founders Bennett Goodman and Tripp Smith have been reunited with Goodman’s Hunter Point Capital buying a minority stake in Smith’s Iron Park Capital -
HPS targets $9.5 billion for fifth mezzanine debt fund
2 years ago
HPS Investment Partners is targeting $9.5 billion for its fifth global mezzanine debt fund, HPS Strategic Investment Partners V - but unlike earlier vintages, HPS says it will not target opportunities within the upstream energy space -
"I’ve been doing ESG for 27 years; I just didn’t know it"
2 years ago
Apollo's Joe Mornoey takes our credit quiz -
Marathon targets $300 million for inaugural healthcare credit fund
2 years ago
Marathon Asset Management is targeting $300 million for a credit fund focused solely on healthcare loans -
A year that looked like it would be a total wipe-out ended up being very constructive indeed
3 years ago
Our columnist looks back at some of the surprises of 2020 -
Golub promotes CLO specialist and head of direct lending
3 years ago
Golub Capital has promoted its head of structured products and created a vice chair of direct lending position -
Monarch collects $3 billion for fifth distressed and opportunistic credit strategy
3 years ago
The strategy invests across corporate credit, structured credit, real estate, government debt and special situations -
Owl Rock hires in London for investor relations push
3 years ago
Owl Rock Capital, a New York headquartered manager, has made a senior hire to help build its investor base across the Atlantic -
HPS closes mezzanine debt fund with $11 billion to deploy
3 years ago
New York-based manager HPS has held a final close on HPS Mezzanine Partners 2019 -
Ex Apollo veteran launches mid market firm with $350 million seed capital
3 years ago
A credit veteran, perhaps best known for co-founding Apollo's CLO platforn, has set up a new middle market credit firm named FrontWell Capital Partners. The Toronto-headquartered firm starts operations with seed capital of $350 million -
Minnesota pension's 2020 credit allocations hit $1 billion
3 years ago
Minnesota State Board of Investments has earmarked $400 million across to two credit managers in a private market update. The commitments mark $1 billion allocated to credit in 2020 by the pension -
Liquidity is king. A company with a sound long-term value proposition may not last the next few weeks
4 years ago
For borrowers — and credit providers seeing revolvers drawn down — liquidity is the greatest concern
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