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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 -
Benefit Street Partners raises USD 4.7bn for latest flagship direct lending fund
4 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
4 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 -
BlueTorch's Genda details direct lending flows and pricing as he ramps up new fund
4 years ago
BlueTorch Capital has witnessed a 20% pickup in dealflow since covid-19 but, while the company's portfolio has avoided retailers, airlines and hotels, it has not gone unscathed, said chief executive officer Kevin Genda -
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 -
Bain uses rights offerings as unusual route to raise cash for BDC
4 years ago
Bain Speciality Finance is looking to raise additional capital through a rights offering to “further strengthen its balance sheet” and “provide additional flexibility to support existing portfolio companies over the coming months”, chief executive officer Michael Ewald said in an open letter to shareholders on Monday -
Fed unveils IG bond buying programme and direct lending plans
4 years ago
The US Federal Reserve has unveiled further measures to support the US economy alongside plans to establish a direct lending initiative - Main Street Business Lending Programme – to support lending to small-and-medium sized businesses -
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 -
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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