Bain garners $973 million for middle market fund
Bain Capital Credit has garnered $973.4 million its latest US direct lending mezzanine strategy, Bain Middle Market Credit 2018

Silicon Valley pension to invest $20 million in private debt
San Jose Federated City Employees Retirement System and Health Care Trust is set to make commitments of $20 million in private debt, as part of its fiscal year 2019-2020 pacing plan, according to documents seen by Creditflux  

HPS and Nomura team up in first-time CLO partnership
HPS Investment Partners has teamed up with Nomura for the two firms' first CLO transaction as a partnership

Bain prices CLO refi as fresh supply of unrefinanced 2016 paper dwindles
Bain Capital Credit has become the latest manager to refinance a 2016 CLO after pricing a $462 million deal via MUFG

Bain scores tight print as it prices second middle market CLO
Bain Capital has priced its second CLO backed by loans to middle market companies named BCC Middle Market CLO 2019-1

Crescent BDC buys Alcentra BDC in $141.9 million transaction
As part of the deal, the combined business development company will go public and charge lower management fees

CLO pipeline: refis can't wait till after summer
The CLO market in both the US and Europe looks to be slowing down in the near future with only two deals added to the running pipeline.  

Arrowmark prices 4.5-year reset with unusual triple A and double B structure
Arrowmark Colorado Holdings yesterday reset its CLO named Elevation 2013-1, with the first-pay tranche issued in a combo of the triple A and double As in loan format

Connecticut $36 billion pension hires first chief risk officer
The Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds has hired its first-ever chief risk officer

Pretium returns with first CLO of the year amid personnel changes
Pretium Credit Management yesterday returned to the CLO primary market with its first transaction of 2019

Structured credit manager wins $300 million from Texas pension
The separately managed account will form part of the $30.3 billion pension fund's strategic credit mandate 

Los Angeles pension appoints four managers for private credit mandate
Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System (Lacers) has awarded four contracts for a $670 million private credit mandate search, according to minutes from the July investment committee meeting.  

Corbin eyes non-sponsored loans for inaugural private credit funds of funds
The New York-based fund-of-funds manager plans to target a private credit portfolio of around 125-150 loans across six to eight managers that focus on non-sponsored lending

US CLO round-up: summer blues don’t weigh on the issuance parade
Summer is shining on US CLOs as $3.8 billion worth of activity entered the market last week. The flow brought four new deals (including one middle market deal), one reset and two refinancings.

BlueMountain buyout to bring CLO equity shift, funding pledge and Feldstein payout
BlueMountain Capital Management’s co-founder Andrew Feldstein looks set to receive a substantial pay-out in common shares of Assured Guaranty, which has agreed to buy the manager for around $160 million and has outlined a three-year plan for its CLOs

US pension scheme eyes 50 South Capital fund of funds
50 South Capital Backed Credit Fund II, a fund-of funds vehicle, is set to invest in four loan funds in small and medium size companies, according to documents seen by Creditflux  

Brightwood adds ex-Prudential origination specialist to Los Angeles office
Brightwood Capital Advisors has appointed a managing director on its investments team in California 

Guggenheim prices first broadly syndicated loan-backed CLO in nearly two years
Guggenheim Investments made a long-awaited return to the US CLO market on Friday, pricing its first new deal backed by broadly syndicated loans in almost two years

CIFC becomes second CLO manager to issue five new deals in 2019
CIFC Asset Management on Friday became only the second manager to price a fifth new US CLO of 2019, according to market sources

Carval fashions 'flexible' global multi-strategy credit hedge fund
The open-ended fund will focus on non-control strategies including corporate securities, liquidations, loan portfolios and structured credit 

Credit traders' kickstand: volatility puts paid to primary, but pays out for relative value buyers
The persistence of credit market choppiness has brought into focus CDS/bond basis plays, options positioning, high yield dispersion and peripheral European weakness - but mainly the volatility rash has put a block on borrowers' primary market aspirations

Pretium's D'Angelo to join Redding Ridge as he reunites with former Aladdin CLO PM
John D’Angelo has left Pretium Credit Management ahead of a move to the CLO management business established by Apollo Global Management in 2016, Redding Ridge Asset Management, according to Reuters

Boston-based pension backs Searchlight distressed fund
Cambridge Retirement System, the $1.27 billion pension fund, has committed $150 million to Searchlight Capital Partners III during the second semester of 2019, according to documents seen by Creditflux.  

Solar BDC shines a light on its bid to focus on first lien loans
Solar Capital is taking a prudent approach to loan investments with the firm reducing its exposure to second liens, according to the business development company's earnings call

CLO managers suffer puncture with $85 million of Jack Cooper debt
CLO managers hold $85.8 million of exposure to auto hauler Jack Cooper Ventures, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i