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Vector launches special situations private credit fund
1 month ago
A San Francisco-based private equity firm has launched a new private credit special situations fund, and is aiming to raise USD 300m -
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. -
Credit faces blind spot as borrowers enter higher default cycle: BNP Paribas
1 year ago
With short term rates outstripping nominal GDP growth, the credit cycle is entering its next and final stage – one in which corporate defaults will pick up but high quality borrowers should outperform -
Credit PM pair seek galaxy of opportunities with long/short fund manager launch
2 years ago
Two experienced portfolio managers have set up a new venture to take advantage of volatile markets -
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 -
High yield fund sets pace with 22% return in January
3 years ago
Wasserstein Debt Opportunities Fund has set the early pace for credit hedge funds in 2021 after registering a 21.7% gain in January. This builds on the high yield fund’s success last year and takes 12-month returns to 40.44%. -
Compression trades grind into gear as spreads narrow
3 years ago
Compression between high yield and investment grade credit looks to be finally gaining traction in February, having been identified by some strategists at the start of the year as a key 2021 theme -
400 holds $430 million final close on opportunistic structured credit fund
3 years ago
400 Asset Based Term Fund II will invest across structured credit including special situations, risk-transfers, and liquidity premium opportunities in the primary and secondary markets -
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 -
Leucadia pushes into distressed debt as it seeds new manager
4 years ago
Leucadia Asset Management has made a push into special situations and distressed debt, with the Jefferies’ subsidiary announcing a strategic partnership with FourSixThree Capital. Leucadia will provide seed capital to newly formed FourSixThree, as part of that transaction -
Structured credit manager launches distressed fund
4 years ago
A structured credit focused manager is fundraising for a distressed credit fund -
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 -
Credit traders' kickstand: rolling with the pain, as relative value trades come unstuck
4 years ago
What a difference a month - and a pandemic - make. This time in February, no-one could have imagined a global financial crisis would be unfolding, that credit performance would be a battle between a virus and some of the biggest government and central bank interventions on record, that today's iTraxx Europe and CDX index rolls would traverse unprecedented ranges, that option expiry strikes would be blown beyond recognition, or that cash and CDS differentials would be whipsawing with such violence -
VIP Cinema makes uncomfortable viewing for CLOs as it's reeled into Chapter 11
4 years ago
CLOs hold $52.9 million of debt in seatmaker VIP Cinema Holdings, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the District of Delaware -
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. -
Monroe adds four to its opportunistic private credit team
4 years ago
Monroe Capital has expanded its opportunistic private credit team with four hires: Darrick Ginkel, Chris Spanel, Jason Starr and Joseph Valickus -
Black Diamond hires veteran distressed debt specialist
5 years ago
Black Diamond Capital Management has appointed a senior ex-BlueMountain distressed debt specialist to its team in Greenwich, Connecticut -
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 -
GSO co-founder plans new credit business
5 years ago
GSO Capital Partners co-founder Tripp Smith is launching his own credit management firm, according to a report by Bloomberg -
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 -
Kirkland brings in Bain lawyer as partner
6 years ago
Global law firm Kirkland & Ellis has added Bain Capital's in-house counsel Ranesh Ramanathan as corporate partner
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