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Chenavari takes three-pronged approach with new specialty finance fund
2 years ago
Chenavari has raised capital for a specialty finance fund, officials at the company have confimed to Creditflux. The fund, the firm’s latest vintage private credit strategy, launched in February -
Fidelity International makes senior direct lending hires in private credit push
2 years ago
Fidelity International has been staffing up in European direct lending, with 12 additions to the private credit team that was established a year ago -
Credit funds at a glance (May 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
2 years ago
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns -
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... -
Credit funds at a glance (April 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
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 -
Boston has more than a feeling for private credit as pension issues RFP
2 years ago
Boston Retirement System is seeking private credit managers to manage around $60 million -
Credit funds at a glance (March 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Man names co-heads for new SRT business
2 years ago
Man Group has appointed two Elanus Capital officials as co-heads of its new credit risk sharing strategy, which will sit in its $3.5 billion private market business -
Credit funds at a glance (February 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
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 -
Gapstow expects strategic deals as credit manager M&A volume slumps to $120 billion
2 years ago
M&A volume involving credit asset managers dropped last year with total target value assets under management slumping to $120 billion from $149 billion in 2020 (and $254 billion in 2019), according to Gapstow Capital Partners -
Credit funds at a glance (January 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Muzinich adds UK and Ireland institutional sales head
2 years ago
Muzinich & Co has hired a head institutional sales for the UK and Ireland -
Credit Fundraising: Private credit and CLO captive equity feature strongly as closes mount up
2 years ago
Credit funds have made a fair start to the fourth quarter, although the $21 billion raised during October is down substantially on September’s impressive record for 2021 -
Credit funds at a glance (November 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
LP round up: no Stoptober as investors allocate $5 billion to credit
2 years ago
US institutional investors allocated $5 billion to credit funds in October, with Oak Hill and Pimco among the biggest mandates -
Brevan Howard buys stake in structured credit fund manager led by former employee
2 years ago
1543 Capital and Brevan Howard have strengthened their ties with market sources indicating that Brevan Howard has acquired a minority equity stake in the manager -
Credit funds at a glance (October 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Credit funds at a glance (September 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Credit Fundraising: Blue Owl and WhiteHorse gain from improving animal spirits
2 years ago
Fundraising perked up in July as managers raised $14.9 billion for credit funds - the third highest monthly amount this year -
RBC hires ex-Citi structured credit sales head for alternatives push
2 years ago
RBC Capital Markets has hired Citi's former European structured credit sales head to lead its European alternatives and private capital solutions effort -
Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
2 years ago
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives. -
Fund performance: Déjà vu as April leaders dominate
2 years ago
CLO funds stayed in the top flight for another month as they took over the top 10 credit hedge fund return table in May, when 87% of all funds listed made positive returns
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