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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 -
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 -
Credit funds at a glance (February 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Oaktree closes $3 billion real estate debt fund with 55% deployment
2 years ago
Oaktree Capital Management held a roughly $3 billion final close on its third global real estate debt strategy, Real Estate Debt Fund III -
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 funds at a glance (January 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
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 -
"No-one talks about the part oil price surges played in the 2008/9 global financial crisis"
2 years ago
Investors eyeing inflation shocks and supply chain disruption should instead be paying attention to the brewing energy crisis -
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 -
Real estate manager wins $50 million debt mandate from 'Hong Kong insurer'
2 years ago
Patrizia has secured a $50 million commitment from a Hong Kong insurer to invest in real estate debt -
Axa IM launches multi-strat fund for pensions
2 years ago
Axa Investment Managers’ ‘alternatives’ business has launched an open-ended strategy for pension funds -
UK pension readies £1.3 billion listed alternatives fund
2 years ago
The fund will provide liquid access to infrastructure, specialist real estate, private equity and alternative credit -
Credit Rendezvous: Credit spins full circle
2 years ago
The third quarter was massive in terms of volumes with CLOs, high yield, leverage loans and private equity registering record issuance. But credit spreads were up and down as inflation fears, crackdowns in China and rising coronavirus cases became catalysts for risk-off sentiment in July and September -
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 Fundraising: September breaks 2021 record and poses question - is it sustainable?
2 years ago
The third quarter ended with $36.5 billion being raised in credit last month, doubling July and August figures. Several of the new funds have embedded Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation or ESG criteria at the heart of their investment thesis -
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 -
Credit funds at a glance (July 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Credit fundraising: managers take care of infrastructure with new partnerships
2 years ago
Credit managers were busy launching new partnerships to support growth in infrastructure and CLOs. There were 13 announcements in the month paving the way for upcoming funds, platforms, and joint ventures -
CarVal exceeds target with $3.6 billion distressed credit fund
2 years ago
CarVal will invest in distressed credit including acquiring loan portfolios, investing in corporate securities, structured credit and hard assets -
HSBC AM names CEO of new $53bn alternatives business
2 years ago
HSBC Asset Management has become the latest manager to bring together its ‘alternatives’ capabilities under one roof, with the launch of a new unit, HSBC Alternatives -
Schroders unites private market divisions under Schroders Capital umbrella
2 years ago
Schroders has united its private market capabilities under a new umbrella branded Schroders Capital -
Fund performance: CLO funds outperform as two hit over 100% 12-months return
2 years ago
CLO funds swatted away the competition in April on their way to dominating our top 10 credit hedge fund return table after an upbeat month
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