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Fund performance
7 months ago
Positive August for credit sees CLO funds on top again -
RiverRock secures €153 million in commitments for new senior loan fund
RiverRock sets €1 billion commitment target for latest fund, nearly double the size of its previous vintage
8 months ago -
LP round up: HPS wins $550m mandate as Ares launches third US direct lending fund
1 year ago
US institutional investors allocated nearly $3 billion to credit funds in April. The news comes amid a BlackRock survey in the month which showed significant investor interest in private credit -
Diameter closes second dislocation fund at $2.2 billion hard cap
1 year ago
Diameter Capital Partners has closed its second dislocation fund with $2.2 billion commitments -
Permira brings in Carlyle European special sits co-head for new business
1 year ago
Permira has strengthened its new strategic opportunities busines -
Egypt works its Sharm on credit markets
1 year ago
Egypt looks to be reaping the benefits of hosting the Cop 27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheik, with the country’s credit spreads on a sharp rally this week -
Brookfield/Oaktree targets "larger" than $16 billion for next opportunistic credit fund
1 year ago
Brookfield Asset Management held a $2.8 billion first close on its third infrastructure debt fund and has started fundraising for its next vintage of our opportunistic credit flagship fund, alongside affiliate Oaktree, according to the firm's Q3 earnings call -
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 -
Cairn begins "new chapter" as it rebrands to Polus
1 year ago
Cairn Capital has been renamed Polus Capital Management, which brings it together with Bybrook Capital, the credit asset manager it acquired in 2021. -
Sculptor CEO Levin refutes "personal issue" accusation by ex-chief Och
1 year ago
Sculptor Capital Management’s independent board and the company’s chief executive officer and chief investment officer Jimmy Levin have fired back at former CEO and founder Daniel Och after he cited a “personal issue” in reference to Levin’s past -
LP round up: $2.7bn flows to 20 credit managers as investors battle PE overallocation
1 year ago
Investors faced huge headwinds in September with inflation, rising interest rates, and geopolitical turmoil, alongside the UK gilts sell-off at month end -
Bardin Hill holds first close for second opportunistic credit fund
1 year ago
Bardin Hill Investment Partners has held a first close for its second opporunistic credit fund, with around $300 million in capital commitments -
Property firm's troubles mount while rest of market rallies
1 year ago
Financial markets have opened the week brightly on a mix of improved sentiment and technical repositioning. But one European high yield company is heading further into stress, against the flow -
Real estate stock manoeuvre sparks credit spread blow out
1 year ago
Adler Group's move to 'squeeze out' equity from a subsidiary business has prompted a sharp sell off in bonds and CDS attached to the company -
Talen Energy CDS deliverables list shortens on lack of docs
1 year ago
A credit event auction next week to settle Talen Energy Supply CDS could have fewer deliverable obligations than previously indicated, with three from the preliminary list not having made it onto the Determinations Committee’s initial list -
Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
1 year ago
There was more upheaval for credit funds in April, reversing the mini-recovery in March as 40% of funds made positive returns, a decrease on the 47% in March -
Dealer list builds for year's first credit event auction
1 year ago
A credit event auction next week to settle Talen Energy Supply CDS contracts looks set to have 10 participating dealers, with two banks having been added to the regular list -
Retailers, travel cos and Italian banks lead charge as market rally accelerates
2 years ago
Retail companies have been resurgent on Thursday as the credit market’s relief rally gathered pace, with Europe seeking to catch up with the US following its strong surge -
Talen credit event auction deliverables point to 47 cent recovery
2 years ago
Talen Energy Supply’s credit event auction looks set to have 16 bonds deliverable, including senior unsecured notes that are priced much lower than its senior secured, according to a preliminary list published by the Americas Determinations Committee -
Pantheon exceeds $500 million target for second private debt secondaries fund
2 years ago
Pantheon has held a final close of its second private debt secondaries fund, Pantheon Senior Debt II, at $834 million -
Property giant takes a tumble as European fortunes diverge
2 years ago
Adler Group, the German real estate giant, is once again coming under intense pressure in the credit market amid reports the country’s financial watchdog has begun a criminal investigation into its dealings -
Sunac CDS must be physically settled, says DC
2 years ago
No credit event auction is required to settle CDS contracts referencing Sunac China Holdings, the Asia Ex-Japan Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has ruled -
CLO managers in the mix for first US credit event auction since 2020
2 years ago
CDS contracts referencing Talen Energy Supply will be settled by credit event auction next month. And Talen's recovery levels will have relevance for a number of CLO managers that have held onto the company's debt - in some cases having bought more very recently -
Talen triggers first index-hitting credit event since Europcar
2 years ago
Talen Energy Supply has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has ruled, making this the first default to hit US high yield index CDX HY since September 2020 and the first to hit a CDS index since January last year -
CDX HY faces first constituent default since 2020
2 years ago
The Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has accepted a request to rule on a CDX HY index constituent default - the first it has faced in the US since mid-2020
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