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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 -
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 hedge fund returns (November 2022)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Credit funds at a glance (November 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Franklin Templeton wraps up deal for $35bn Alcentra
1 year ago
Franklin Templeton has completed its acquisition of BNY Mellon’s $35 billion credit unit Alcentra -
Private equity firms are becoming CLO converts: TwentyFour
1 year ago
Private equity firms have increasingly bought CLO and other securitised debt tranches in recent weeks instead of their usual preference for physical assets - a trade TwentyFour believes "makes perfect sense" -
Credit investors find bright spots in gloomy outlook: Credit Rendezvous Q4 2022
1 year ago
Clouds are looming over financial markets as the fourth quarter begins — so investors are moving away from diversified approaches in favour of tailored investments and relative value plays -
Credit funds at a glance (October 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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LP round up: private credit takes big slice of inflows as 10% portfolio share projected for 2026
1 year ago
Institutional investors revealed nearly $4 billion allocations to credit funds in July, with recipients including Angelo Gordon, Apollo, Ares, BlackRock, Brookfield, CarVal, Comvest, Deerpath, KKR, Schroders and Sixth Street -
Credit funds at a glance (August 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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BlackRock closes £1.7 billion private debt fund with wide mandate for UK pensions
1 year ago
The firm has deployed around 60% of the fund, which invests across US and European direct lending, US and European real estate debt and the firm’s global opportunistic strategy -
Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
1 year 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"
1 year ago
Something has gotta give as a recession looms in the US. Might it be energy? -
Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
CLO investors show more signs of optimism than other ABS: Barclays
1 year ago
CLO investors attending the Global ABS conference in Barcelona were more upbeat than those that work in residential mortgage-backed securities and other ABS, say Barclays securitised credit strategists. But the overall mood was sombre -
Real estate is about to get real bad: Welshcake
1 year ago
The extent of disconnect between real estate and what other markets have been experiencing is enough to convince me a whole other layer of economic mayhem is on the way. But investors in credit, for all their current pain, could still end up shining if they are prepared -
Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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Credit funds at a glance (May 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
1 year 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 -
CRE CLO episode shines light on CLO get-out clauses
1 year 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
1 year 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)
1 year 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
1 year 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 -
Credit funds at a glance (March 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
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
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