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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. -
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 -
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
3 years ago
Marathon Asset Management is targeting $300 million for a credit fund focused solely on healthcare loans -
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 -
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 -
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 -
‘Buying the dip’ is going to be a poor investment strategy when the next downturn comes
4 years ago
The next credit downturn will be shallower but more prolonged than the last, so what works will be different, too -
Arizona pension to deploy up to $700 million a year in private credit
4 years ago
Arizona Public Safety Employee System is looking to deploy $600-700 million in private credit strategies per year in order to meet its target allocation, according to board documents seen by Creditflux. -
Private debt should alleviate the next downturn, says Paul Hastings
5 years ago
Private debt should soften the next downturn and not exacerbate it, according to a note published by law firm Paul Hastings -
HPS targets $8 billion for flagship mezzanine strategy
5 years ago
HPS Mezzanine Partners 2019, the firm's fourth fund in its mezzanine strategy, has won $100 million from a Louisiana pension fund -
Blackstone grows credit assets by 31% over year
5 years ago
The firm achieved strong fundraising in credit, taking credit-related assets under managment to $130.6 billion in the third quarter, a 31% increase year-on-year -
So much capital, so few deals: specialists fear for direct lending
6 years ago
No covenants, increasing leverage ratios and an outlook for rising rates means that direct lending is not all it's cracked up to be, according to several credit market participants -
The biggest credit stories in 2017
6 years ago
CLO ramp-up risk, new risk retention proposals and new CLO joint ventures were in the headlines last year. Here, Creditflux reveals the most read stories of 2017 -
How credit fraud could make a comeback
6 years ago
Easy credit leads inevitably to fraud, whether in consumer credit or corporate lending -
CVC Credit appoints chairman as credit CIO steps down
6 years ago
CVC Credit Partners has today announced that Stephen Hickey will be leaving the firm for personal reasons. Joining the firm will be former JP Morgan leveraged finance head Hamish Buckland
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