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Brookfield infra debt fund beats fundraise target
10 months ago
Brookfield Asset Management has held an above-target final close for its third infrastructure debt fund, in a sign of strong appetite for debt in contrast to tough fundraising conditions in infrastructure equity -
Harbor Group International names new chief investment officer, credit investments
1 year ago
Global real estate investment and management firm Harbor Group International has named Matt Jones as the new chief investment officer for credit investments -
Widening spreads settling into renewables debt pricing
1 year ago
Pricing for infrastructure and renewables financing has increased across the board, according to sister publication Infralogic -
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 -
Arrow overshoots €2.5 billion target for second credit opps fund
1 year ago
Arrow Global has closed its second credit opportunities fund at its hard cap, collecting around €2.75 billion and exceeding its €2.5 billion target -
LA pension awards $675 million to illiquid credit managed account
1 year ago
The strategy will invest across asset-backed credit, loans, bonds, and specialty finance -
400 Capital raises $580 million for third asset backed credit fund
1 year ago
400 Capital Management has closed its third asset backed fund 400 Capital Asset Based Term Fund III at $580 million -
Castlelake secures $782 million for credit fund
1 year ago
Castlelake Income Opportunities II will invest in areas including European commercial real estate, transitional bridge lending in North America, specialty finance and secured aviation related lending -
Axa IM reorganises alternatives unit into five streams amid AUM growth
2 years ago
Axa Investment Managers has reorganised its ‘alternatives’ business into five streams and made four promotions -
Balbec collects $1.5 billion for fifth mortgage and consumer loan fund
2 years ago
Balbec will invest through a new fund across residential, commercial, and consumer whole loan portfolios and across the performance spectrum including “assets subject to bankruptcy or other structured repayment plans" -
Fund managers join forces on US asset-based lending platform
2 years ago
Castlelake has teamed up with Aequum Capital Founder to launch an asset-based lending platform, which will lend in ticket sizes of $1-10 million -
Taconic adds CMBS specialist to team in New York
2 years ago
Taconic Capital has boosted its CMBS business with an experienced hire -
Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
2 years ago
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions -
"If anything is to be salvaged from the rest of 2022, the economy needs a hero — and quickly"
2 years ago
Something has gotta give as a recession looms in the US. Might it be energy? -
ECB wizards seek ‘anti-fragmentation’ spell to calm spreads
2 years ago
Eurozone financial market performance this month will heavily focus on the European Central Bank’s unveiling of an ‘anti-fragmentation tool’ as it races to avert a blow-out of peripheral spreads and the build-up of longer-term financing problems -
Kayne Anderson closes $1.87 billion real estate debt fund
2 years ago
Kayne Anderson has closed a fourth real estate debt fund at $1.875 billion, surpassing its intitial $1.5 billion target -
CRE CLO episode shines light on CLO get-out clauses
2 years ago
Market disruption clauses are rare in CLO warehouse agreements, but litigation surrounding a cancelled 2020 CRE CLO underlines how these can give CLO issuers added flexibility in a doomsday scenario -
Credit Rendezvous: Pass masters
2 years ago
Most often, a credit market downturn has its roots mired in one big, blatant obstacle that credit managers have to focus their attention to overcome. But right now, it’s not the dominant risk factor that has to be defeated, it’s the sheer number of them... -
Ex-Accunia CLO specialist lands at Danish firm to build structured finance platform
2 years ago
An ex-Accunia chief investment officer and CLO specialist has landed at Danish commercial real estate firm CBRE -
Court orders Bancorp to repay Waterfall's deposit from cancelled CRE CLO
2 years ago
An affiliate of Waterfall Asset Management has won its dispute with Bancorp Bank over a proposed CRE CLO transaction that was terminated in early 2020 owing to “market disruption” -
LP round up: Oak Hill wins $3bn mandate as credit allocations near $10bn in March
2 years ago
Institutional investors revealed over $9.5 billion of allocations to credit funds in March. Oak Hill Advisors walked away with the largest mandate, as US heavyweight pension Calpers allocated a whopping $3 billion across several of its funds -
Constellation buys into real estate and mid-market corporate specialist
2 years ago
Constellation Capital has bought a passive, minority equity stake in Post Road Group, according to a joint-announcement. The transaction comes shortly after Post Road raised over $300 million for Post Road Special Opportunity Fund II -
Infrastructure manager targets €1 billion for eclectic mix of project finance debt and SRTs
2 years ago
A Copenhagen-based firm is launching its first credit fund and has partnered with an SRT specialist in London for a component of its potential €1 billion offering -
Credit Rendezvous: the upside of inflation
2 years ago
It is clear, inflation is not transitory and central banks are acting with several interest rate hikes likely in store for the US this year. That makes loans and CLO debt tranches attractive, but there could be opportunities beyond these floating rate assets -
Credit Fundraising: mega funds contribute to record-breaking month as volume hits $39bn
2 years ago
The sheer size of the funds raised in November more than compensated for a drop in the number of funds raised as fundraising volume in credit reached $38.9 billion. This beat September by $2.4 billion to make it the most productive month of credit fundraising in 2021
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