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Blue Owl brings sovereign wealth fund deputy CIO onboard
20 days ago
Private credit specialist Blue Owl Capital has become the latest direct lender to expand in Australia with a major hire -
Global Loan Highlights 1Q24: Don’t call it a comeback
1 month ago
Loan refinancing share hits historic high, but IG issuance stymies YoY global growth -
APAC investors target private credit opportunities in Australia after quitting China
2 months ago
While Asia continues to play catch-up in global private credit, Australia and New Zealand are leading the charge in Asia Pacific — for both lenders and borrowers. -
Direct lender and CLO manager expands into Japan
2 months ago
The US private credit and direct lending specialist has opened its first Japanese office, and hired a new senior VP to oversee the office -
Funds round-up: Feb-2024 - managers turn to European wealth
2 months ago
European private credit managers turn to the wealthy in our roundup of notable fundraising in February 2024. -
Tikehau teams up with Singapore-based UOB-Kay Hian for Asian private credit fund
2 months ago
Paris-headquartered Tikehau Capital is the latest player to reveal plans to strengthen its footprint in the fast-growing Asian private credit market by way of a partnership with Singapore-based brokerage firm UOB-Kay Hian -
Goldman Sachs and Mubadala strike USD 1bn private credit partnership
2 months ago
Goldman Sachs and Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company have struck a USD 1bn deal to co-invest in private credit opportunities throughout the APAC region -
Ares raises AUD 2.6bn for private credit fund focused on Australia and New Zealand
3 months ago
New fund marks the first strategy launched by Ares Asia and the largest pool of capital dedicated to the fast-growing Australian and New Zealand private credit markets. -
Credit PMs remain gloomy in latest IACPM survey
4 months ago
Survey participants in the latest IACPM Credit Outlook Survey believe the euphoria seen in global financial markets during the last few months of 2023 was overdone -
Banks support triple As as insurers and asset managers step awa
4 months ago
While attention is focused on what the proposed risk-weighted asset (RWA) implementation of Basel 3 will mean for US banks, European banks have already become the dominate buyers of CLO triple A paper. -
Low margins and scarcity of LBOs hurt term loan revenues
4 months ago
Despite a resurgence in global term loan B (TLB) volume, which grew by 30% to reach $416.6bn as of December 2023, revenue earned by arranging banks on these facilities only totalled $3.0bn -
AustralianSuper increases private credit allocation as it seeks to triple exposure to the market
5 months ago
AustralianSuper has increased its investment mandate with private credit specialist Churchill Asset Management to USD 1.5bn, as Australia's largest pension system looks to triple its exposure in the fast-growing international private credit market -
Pensions pivot from vanilla private credit to focus on niche sectors
6 months ago
Retirement and pension funds continue to pump money into private credit, enticed by the prospect of higher returns. But as the market grows, more are turning their attention to niche sectors, such as ESG-oriented investments and specialised credit. -
Polls close tomorrow for the Creditflux CLO Census 2023
6 months ago
With two days of voting left the seventh instalment of Creditflux’s CLO Census is already the biggest ever with 397 participants -
Singapore-based private credit firm's latest fund has $205 million first close
7 months ago
The latest fund in the growing APAC private credit market includes investments from institutional investors in Canada, the US and Japan -
Loan Highlights 3Q23: Loan volumes remain significantly lower than historical averages
7 months ago
Capital markets loan activity continued to struggle in the third quarter of 2023, as issuers in the Americas and Europe held off from tapping markets -
Fund performance
7 months ago
Positive August for credit sees CLO funds on top again -
Blackstone loses head of private credit in Europe and APAC
7 months ago
Senior managing director will stay until the end of the year before stepping back for personal reasons -
Securities regulators call for improvement in practices in CLO market
8 months ago
IOSCO, an international policy forum for securities regulators, has called for improvement in practices in both the leveraged loan and CLO markets. -
Barings strikes strategic partnership agreement with Lakemore to support CLO issuance
9 months ago
Barings has entered into a strategic partnership with Lakemore Partners to support the growth of the manager's CLO platform -
Muzinich places $500 million bet on Asia Pacific region
10 months ago
The investment firm completed the final close for its first Asia Pacific-focused private credit fund with $500 million. -
Loan Highlights 2Q23: Running aground
10 months ago
The global loan market endured a bleak first half of the year, with the overall 1H23 volume falling 28% year-on-year (YoY) to $1.9 trillion, the lowest showing since 2012. -
Japanese investors and ETFs bid up CLO triple As as US banks cool off
10 months ago
CLOs saw healthy demand from Japan in the first three months of the year, with Japan Post Bank and Norinchukin each increasing investments in the asset class. Japan Post’s CLO holdings stood at JPY2.3 trillion ($17.51 billion) as of 31 March, an increase of $550 million in the quarter and up 32.7% on the year prior. Nochu added $110 million to JPY6.4 trillion ($48.2 billion), or 13% of the bank’s investment portfolio. -
CLO market turns international as new investors land
1 year ago
The global CLO market attracted new investors over the first quarter of 2023, according to market sources, while others have moved across the capital stack or into different regions than those to which they have been accustomed -
Bain reveals $4bn of direct lending investments in 2023
1 year ago
Bain Capital Credit says it invested $4 billion in private equity-sponsored, middle-market companies last year.
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