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Barings shrugs off team liftout with new private credit deal
20 days ago
Barings is putting up a fight in the private credit market despite the dramatic loss of 20 members, acting as lead agent on a new private credit deal -
Barings launches legal proceedings against Corinthia and two senior defectors
30 days ago
Barings has commenced legal proceedings against two former senior executives who last week defected to Corinthia Global Management -
Nomura-backed Corinthia lifts private credit team from Barings
1 month ago
More than 20 members of the global private credit team at Barings have jumped ship and joined Corinthia Global Management, a new platform backed by Nomura Holdings -
Barings prices two deals in a day
4 months ago
In a highly unusual move, Barings yesterday priced two middle market CLOs, worth a combined USD 862.15m, within hours of each other -
Ohio Police & Fire commits $50 million to private credit
7 months ago
Ohio Police & Fire pension system makes first private credit commitment for the year to a Barings fund -
Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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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 -
Barings jostles cap stack with mid-market CLO reset
2 years ago
Barings has reset a middle market CLO it signed in 2017, increasing the overall size of the deal slightly with a shift in weighting between the single A minus and triple B minus pieces -
Barings completes first middle market CLO since 2019
2 years ago
Barings has issued its first CLO backed by middle market loans since October 2019 -
LP round up: big name managers win direct lending mandates amid $1.5 billion allocations
2 years ago
Apollo, Ares, Barings and CVC were among the beneficiaries of the direct lending rush in May -
Credit fundraising: Audax scores big in lighter month
2 years ago
Fundraising markedly dropped in May, but credit funds still amassed $12.8 billion and 10 credit funds reached final closes across a variety of different strategies -
Credit funds at a glance (June 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
LP round up: $3.2 billion flows to 21 managers as private credit illiquidity premium holds firm
2 years ago
Investors allocated at least $3.2 billion to credit managers in April - and direct lending funds were in favour with Churchill and Ares being awarded two mandates -
Credit fundraising: Dubai manager gets in on the act as direct lending takes off
3 years ago
Shuaa launches credit fund in the Gulf as Ares, Contingency, HPS and Perceptive are among those to close billion-plus funds -
Credit Rendezvous: sometimes you have to dive deep to find value
3 years ago
Some parts of the credit market are fraught with danger, but that does not mean portfolio managers are avoiding them entirely, according to the Credit Rendezvous, Creditflux's 10-page quarterly report eaturing comments from 15 credit experts -
Credit fundraising: managers build homes for real estate credit funds
3 years ago
The “largest ever real estate credit fund” was one of the fundraising highlights last month as Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies IV fund reached $8 billion on its final close -
Barings launches second North American direct lending fund
3 years ago
Barings has begun fundraising for its second North American-focused direct lending fund, three years after closing the firm’s inaugural strategy. -
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 Rendezvous: record fiscal stimulus provides pick-me-up
3 years ago
Credit markets had a mini bounce-back in the second quarter as central banks poured cash into the economy. But there is great uncertainty about the effects of a second wave of coronavirus. As part of our quarterly report on credit - the Credit Rendezvous - Creditflux spoke to experts across 12 segments of the credit market -
Barings BDC eyes syndicated loan market opportunities
4 years ago
Three weeks ago, during its 2019 earnings report, Barings BDC said the company’ had rotated out of broadly syndicated loans to ramp up its middle market exposure. But with widespread market upheaval since then, most opportunities to build value for investors will come from the broadly syndicated market -
Beware of "mequity" risk in direct lending, writes Barings
4 years ago
Barings co-head of global private finance, Ian Fowler, predicts that the adoption of lending terms associated with broadly syndicated loans into private credit will not prove beneficial in the long term -
Mid market CLO league tables: springing back into life after September drought
4 years ago
After a September hiatus, three managers returned to mid market CLOs in October to bring issuance back on track as monthly volume exceeded $1 billion for the sixth time this year -
Barings prices CLO backed by mid market loans
4 years ago
Barings has produced its third CLO transaction backed by loans to middle market companies -
Barings shows way forward with BDC-sponsored CLO
4 years ago
The unusual move by Barings BDC to issue a US CLO suggests a new way for BDCs to lock in cheap financing and withstand volatility. -
Barings BDC forms $550 million JV with South Carolina pension
4 years ago
The new joint venture will invest in both liquid and illiquid credit
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