Vida hires managing director for private credit team
Vida Capital has made a senior appointment responsible for “driving strategic business partnerships to support the company’s sourcing, direct lending, esoterics and private credit transactions"

Leucadia seeds European distressed and credit opps firm Pearlstone
New opportunistic credit firm Pearlstone Alternative has received backing from Leucadia Asset Management in the form of seed capital and distribution services

Pemberton finds direct lending edge in NAV financing
NAV financing for private equity sponsors is gaining popularity, with Pemberton Asset Management the latest manager getting in on the act

Credit investors look to outsource as risks begin to add up
Institutional investors and managers are outsourcing to third parties as credit and macro­economic risks mount

Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
 
   

Franklin Templeton buys Alcentra in $700 million deal
Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy BNY Mellon’s $38 billion credit unit Alcentra, which will see Alcentra combined with Franklin Templeton’s US credit manager Benefit Street Partners

EIF back's Irish direct lender's €335 million fund
The European Investment Fund has made its first 'diversified' debt fund investment in Ireland after allocating €70 million to DunPort Capital Management’s Oak Corporate Credit DAC

Blackstone names senior Anchorage official as head of Asia Pacific origination
Blackstone Credit has hired a senior official from Anchorage to work lead Asia Pacific origination out of Sydney 

Angelo Gordon closes $3.1 billion credit solutions fund in seven months
Fundraising for AG Credit Solutions II means the firm’s all-weather distressed and special situations platform has grown to $11 billion.

Pantheon exceeds $500 million target for second private debt secondaries fund
Pantheon has held a final close of its second private debt secondaries fund, Pantheon Senior Debt II, at $834 million

KKR collects $1.1 billion for inaugural Asia credit opportunities fund
The firm claims it is the “largest inaugural pan-regional fund focused on performing credit” and “one of the largest inaugural pan-regional credit funds to have been raised for Asia Pacific"

Ex-American Capital duo launch US direct lending business
Altimer Capital will provide financing to lower middle market companies that ‘provide or deploy technology to drive business agility and resilience

HSBC raises $1 billion for UK direct lending
The strategy was launched in early 2021 as part of the firm’s ambition to grow its alternatives capabilities

Chenavari takes three-pronged approach with new specialty finance fund
Chenavari has raised capital for a specialty finance fund, officials at the company have confimed to Creditflux. The fund, the firm’s latest vintage private credit strategy, launched in February

Beach Point launches $1.5 billion US direct lending joint venture with KeyBank
KeyBank Beach Point Direct Lending Program will combine sourcing, underwriting and structuring capabilities for middle market borrowers

Eagle Point hires for defensive income strategy team
Eagle Point Capital Management has hired an associate, responsible for assisting the defensive income strategy senior investment team

StepStone keeps up private credit growth with $600 million credit opps fund
StepStone Group has raised “over $600 million” for a fund that will invest in stressed, distressed dislocated credit assets

Fidelity International makes senior direct lending hires in private credit push
Fidelity International has been staffing up in European direct lending, with 12 additions to the private credit team that was established a year ago

Monroe closes first opportunistic private credit fund with 'over 75 investors'
Monroe Capital has won commitments from ‘over 75’ investors, closing its inaugural opportunistic credit fund, Monroe Capital Opportunistic Private Credit Fund I, at $286 million

LP round up: Apollo and Silver Rock win over $1 billion as pensions plough into private debt
Institutional investors allocated at least $2 billion to credit funds in April, according to Creditflux data, with Apollo and Silver Rock emerging as big winners

StepStone raises $1.3 billion for direct lending fund of funds
StepStone Group has closed a second US direct lending fund of funds, StepStone Senior Corporate Lending II, at $1.3 billion, surpassing its $1 billion target

Credit funds at a glance (May 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
   

Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns