Adams Street targets $4.5 billion for third private credit strategy
Kentucky Public Pensions Authority is planning a re-up to the vehicle, according to a recent investor presentation

Angelo Gordon wraps up fundraising for $1.3 billion credit dislocation fund
AG CSF2A (Annex) Dislocation Fund is an extension of the AG Credit Solutions Fund II, which held a $3.1 billion final close in April last year.

LP round up: securitised credit mandate terminated amid $5 billion allocations and expanding relationships
Institutional investors revealed nearly $5 billion of allocations to 31 credit managers across January and February board meetings, according to materials seen by Creditflux. However, there were also two fixed income manager terminations, and one multi-strategy account placed on a watchlist

Oaktree targets $10 billion for LBO financing strategy
The launch of the firm's large-cap sponsor-backed private credit strategy follows banks retreating from the LBO space and a more compelling risk-adjusted return than other sectors in the market

Proskaeur hires CFO specialist from SocGen
Proskauer has announced the appointment of Matthew Kerfoot as partner in its finance group in New York

Crescent amasses $8 billion investable capital for eighth credit solutions fund
The fund had an original $4 billion target, according to Debtwire Funds Data

Bain reveals $4bn of direct lending investments in 2023
Bain Capital Credit says it invested $4 billion in private equity-sponsored, middle-market companies last year.

First Eagle promotes four across syndicated loans and direct lending
First Eagle Alternative Credit has promoted four officials to senior-level roles across its direct lending and syndicated loans businesses

Bain launches non-traded BDC
Bain Capital Credit says it has launched a non-traded business development company known as Bain Capital Private Credit, or BCPC

Orix USA makes two senior appointments to investor solutions unit
Orix Corporation USA has hired two managing directors to its investor solutions division

Nuveen and Churchill launch private BDC with initial $350 million portfolio
The Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund will primarily invest in middle market senior loans and junior capital. The BDC can also allocate to private equity co-investments

Carlyle appoint former Goldman executive as CEO
Carlyle Group have appointed former Goldman Sachs Co-President and CO-Chief Operating Officer Harvey Schwartz as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board, the firm has announced.

Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs),  Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. 

FS and Portfolio Advisors join forces to create $73bn asset manager
FS Investments and Portfolio Advisors have announced a merger in a deal which will see Portfolio Advisors become the institutional investment arm of FS

New York lifts limit on pension alternatives to 35%
New York pensions have been granted the ability to elevate their alternative investment allocations from 25% to 35%. This comes after New York governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill on 23 December that lifts the “basket clause”

Fund performance: Credit funds end difficult 2022 on a positive note
In December 66% of credit funds reached a positive return, following an even better November where 81% of all funds pushed into the black

Credit hedge fund returns (February 2023)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (February 2023)
A round up of people moves and fundraising

BC Credit targets $1.25 billion for third opportunistic credit fund
BC Partners Credit plans to deploy half the fund in private lending and structured equity opportunities and the other half in specialty lending and dislocated liquid credit deals

US private credit default rate rose to 2.06% in Q4, Proskauer reveals
That’s up from 1.56% in Q3 and reverses the trend of declining default rates from the 8.1% peak in Q2 2020.

ICG holds first close on US private credit fund
In total, ICG says it brought it $2.8 billion for its private credit strategies in the quarter

Investcorp hires Alcentra official as private credit co-head steps down
It follows as Investcorp’s current private credit co-head Chris Jansen will “take on an advisory role and retire later this year after ensuring a smooth transition”

Audax raises $3 billion for unitranche direct lending fund
With leverage, the fund has around $4.5 billion total investable capital

Senior Investcorp official lands at wealth manager
A well-known name in the CLO industry has landed at a wealth management firm 

GSAM raises $15.2 billion mezzanine debt fund
With leverage, West Street Mezzanine Partners VIII will have a whopping $15.2 billion capital available to deploy into the junior strategy.