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Värde Partners promotes two to partner
2 months ago
Värde Partners has made two senior-level promotions, including a new global head of business development and investor relations and a new chief operating officer -
Beechbrook hires new managing director to expand UK direct lending business
3 months ago
London-headquartered Beechbrook Capital has hired Richard Smart as managing director tasked with growing the European lower-mid-market debt manager's UK direct lending strategy -
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. -
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. -
Franklin Templeton buys Alcentra in $700 million deal
1 year ago
Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy BNY Mellon’s $38 billion credit unit Alcentra, which will see Alcentra combined with Franklin Templeton’s US credit manager Benefit Street Partners -
Fidelity International makes senior direct lending hires in private credit push
1 year ago
Fidelity International has been staffing up in European direct lending, with 12 additions to the private credit team that was established a year ago -
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 -
SME CLO supremo leaves Be-Spoke for expanding Spanish firm
2 years ago
One of the pioneers behind SME CLOs has left Be-Spoke Capital to join another Spanish lender. He leaves behind the only SME CLO in Europe since the 2008 financial crisis -
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 -
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 -
Permira's credit CIO Kyriakoudis to retire by end of year
3 years ago
Permira Credit’s former chief investment officer Thomas Kyriakoudis will retire from the firm at the end of the year to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities -
Manager sails to €210 million final close on fifth European credit fund
3 years ago
The fund will invest in debt and equity in Northern European small to medium sized companies -
Crescent bolsters Nordic direct lending presence with hire
3 years ago
Crescent Capital has appointed a former Nykredit official as a director in the firm’s European direct lending focused on Nordic transactions -
ICG plans €1 billion European special situations recovery fund
3 years ago
Intermediate Capital Group is targeting a €1 billion final close on its second multi-strategy special situations fund, which aims to exploit opportunities in the loan market arising from the coronavirus-induced pandemic -
Bridgepoint buys EQT's credit business - report
3 years ago
Bridgepoint is buying the credit business of EQT, according to the Financial Times -
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 -
KKR deploys 10% of $2 billion coronavirus dislocation credit fund
4 years ago
KKR Credit has plans to launch a $2 billion dislocated corporate and asset backed credit fund to take advantage of coronavirus-induced volatility. And the New York-based manager has wasted no time swooping on opportunities after deploying $212 million by 9 April -
Global direct lending fundraising plummets in Q1
4 years ago
Global direct lending fundraising figures plummeted in the first quarter as coronavirus-related volatility kicked in. Managers raised just $9.4 billion raised across 11 funds compared to $18.6 billion across 15 in Q1 2019, according to Creditflux's fund database -
The opportunities to build par and spread within a CLO haven’t been this plentiful since 2009
4 years ago
Last year’s CLOs could become the benchmark for manager performance -
Managers get creative as private credit fundraising set for Q2 dent
4 years ago
Private credit funds should expect a slowdown in fundraising as credit markets gyrate wildly and investors address issues in their public market strategies. But managers have been coming up with creative solutions to keep business flowing -
BlackRock hires former KKR official to head European private capital markets
4 years ago
A leveraged finance veteran has joined BlackRock as European head of the firm’s private capital markets business in London, according to an internal memo seen by Creditflux -
EQT undertakes strategic review of credit business
4 years ago
EQT has announced a review of its credit business with the firm appointing JP Morgan to evaluate its 'strategic options', according to the firm’s Q4 2019 report -
BlueBay adds senior portfolio manager as it targets EM fund launches
4 years ago
BlueBay Asset Management has hired for a newly created senior portfolio manager job -
Park Square promotes four after departure of direct lending head
4 years ago
Park Square has announced four promotions to partner, which comes a couple of months after its head of direct lending Howard Sharp parted ways with the firm, as previously reported by Debtwire
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