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LevFin fighting back to counter two years of direct lending dominance | DebtDynamics EMEA
2 months ago
Traditional lenders are battling to retake control of LBO funding from direct lenders, and syndicated leveraged loans appear to have the edge -
Submissions open for third European Direct Lending Awards
6 months ago
Following the success of the Debtwire Direct Lending Awards dinner in 2023, the European Direct Lending Awards return for a third time to celebrate the achievements of the market. -
Eurazeo closes direct lending fund at EUR 2.3bn
9 months ago
The new direct lending fund's strategy entails investing in non-cyclical European small and medium-sized enterprises with valuations between EUR 30m and EUR 300m. -
Opale selects three funds for tactical credit investment strategy
1 year ago
Digital platform for French investors launches first private debt investment strategy -
Fund performance: Light at the end of the tunnel for credit funds after difficult year
1 year ago
Following a tough September, credit funds bounced back in October as 59% of funds made positive returns. -
Franklin Templeton buys Alcentra in $700 million deal
2 years ago
Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy BNY Mellon’s $38 billion credit unit Alcentra, which will see Alcentra combined with Franklin Templeton’s US credit manager Benefit Street Partners -
Creditflux announces finalists for European Direct Lending Awards
2 years ago
Creditflux announces finalists for European Direct Lending Awards -
KKR and PGIM among bidders to buy Alcentra: Bloomberg
2 years ago
BNY Mellon is set to offload its credit investment unit Alcentra, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter -
Tikehau raises nearly €2 billion for direct lending amid record-breaking quarterly fundraising
2 years ago
Tikehau Capital has collected nearly €2 billion for Tikehau Direct Lending V, plus a further €275 million for its secondary private debt strategy -
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 -
Fund performance: Déjà vu as April leaders dominate
3 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 -
It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
3 years ago
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter -
Ucits at a glance: Year-to-date returns head for double figures
3 years ago
Ucits funds generally performed well in October as 75% achieved positive returns -
LP round up: Arcmont, Ares and Sixth Street win European direct lending mandates
3 years ago
Investors have allocated around $2 billion to credit funds in recent weeks, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux. Among those to recieve allocations include ADM, Arcmont, Ares, Audax, Bain, Centerbridge, Clearlake, Goldman Sachs merchant banking, Invesco, Monarch, Oaktree, Raven, Sixth Street and Sound Mark -
LP round up: $5 billion flows to credit as private market allocations increase
3 years ago
Global institutional investors allocated nearly $5 billion to credit funds this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
Credit fundraising: distressed keeps in favour but CLO ETFs emerge
4 years ago
Five months into global lockdown and distressed debt funds are still proving popular, but several managers have found success pitching other types of credit strategies -
Fund performance: Credit funds post double-digit gains
4 years ago
June returns have once again been led by CLO funds, as seven out of the top 10 belong to our CLOs category. -
Private debt secondaries volume nosedives 81% in H1
4 years ago
Global private debt fund secondaries volume nosedived 81.8% during the first half of 2020 as the effects of coronavirus began to surface, according to a recently released report by Setter Capital -
Ucits at a glance: Ucits recover lost ground
4 years ago
The foot has come off the gas for many funds - 57% of funds did not break the 2% return barrier. -
Alcentra's 'significant personnel changes' lead pension to terminate private credit contract
4 years ago
Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System has plans to rescind and terminate its private credit contract with Alcentra "based on significant and unexpected turnover of senior personnel”, according to documents seen by Creditflux. The pension is instead looking to redeploy commitments to Crescent Capital -
PE firms look to go it alone as credit units reach maturity
4 years ago
Private equity firms are starting to weigh up the merits of housing private debt businesses, with TPG Capital the latest to contemplate splitting with its credit business TPG Sixth Street. It follows EQT Capital, which announced a strategic review in January centred on parting ways with its credit unit. -
Investors preferred real asset debt to corporate private debt in 2019, finds Bfinance
4 years ago
Bfinance stated that, in dollar terms, real asset debt searches conducted by investors outweighed corporate private debt searches in 2019 -
Creditflux and Debtwire European direct lending survey set to close today
A European direct lending survey issued by Creditflux and Debtwire is set to close later today
4 years ago -
Ares makes rare move by pulling out of private debt mandate
4 years ago
Greater London’s local government pension pool has lost one of its credit managers after Ares Management withdrew from its role as fund manager on an illiquid loan and private debt mandate -
GSO adds $10 billion to inflows with direct lending, structured credit and energy
5 years ago
Blackstone grew its credit assets under management to $139.3 billion, up 13% on a year ago, according to the firm's second quarter earnings release
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