San Francisco retirement system makes new private credit investment
The San Francisco City & County Employees' Retirement System continues to pump money into alternative investment funds, having recently made two new commitments totaling USD 130m

Monroe Capital receives another commitment for flagship credit fund
Monroe Capital's Private Credit Fund V received a USD 10m allocation for its lower middle market direct lending strategy

Blue Owl cuts equity by a third in reset of 2019 CLO
Blue Owl last week capped off a busy 12 months with a dramatic reset of its first-ever private credit CLO, the 2019-vintage Owl Rock CLO I – marking the manager’s 24th middle market deal

Florida pension system allocates to three alternative funds
Three funds received commitments from the City of Hollywood Employees' Retirement Fund including an opportunistic credit fund and a direct lending fund

Cryptocurrency startup launches Bitcoin private credit fund
Meanwhile Advisors hopes to attract the attention of institutional investors, who will buy into the new bitcoin private credit fund in US dollars, which will then be converted to Bitcoin

US MM CLO rankings - November 2023 YTD
Our latest rankings for the US MM CLO market, including volumes and arranger and manager league tables

Golub Capital becomes lead investor in reinsurance sidecar vehicle
Golub Capital is expanding its offerings with a lead investment in Ruby Reinsurance Company, a newly-formed reinsurance sidecar vehicle backed by Reinsurance Group of America

Monroe Capital receives USD 5m commitment from Monroe County
Michigan-based pension organization Monroe County Employees' Retirement System approved a commitment to a Monroe Capital-managed private credit fund

Middle market issuance continues with Deerpath deal
Deerpath Capital Management has priced its second new middle market deal this year, a transaction valued at USD 353.65m featuring three fixed-rate tranches

CLO market round-up: 27 Nov - 1 Dec
After a busy Thanksgiving week, CLO pricing activity was substantially quieter last week, with only a handful of deals in the market.

Is direct lending on the rebound? - Debtwire Special Report
After a slow start in 2023, direct lending in both the US and Europe has been on the rise, with volumes in Q3 almost doubling compared to the previous quarter

Star Mountain closes USD 1.2bn direct lending fund
Value-Added Direct Lending Fund IV is 90% deployed with a direct lending investment strategy targeting US lower middle-market companies

DigitalBridge closes USD 1.1bn digital infra credit fund
DigitalBridge has closed a digital infrastructure fund called DigitalBridge Credit (Onshore), raising USD 1.1bn in commitments

Middle market rush continues as AllianceBernstein prices new CLO
AllianceBernstein is the latest manager to price an end-of-year mid-market CLO, with a USD 397.44m new issue yesterday 

ICG continues to build out global credit platform with two new senior-level hires
Global alternative asset manager is growing its North American private debt business. 

CLO market round-up: 20 - 24 Nov 2023
Thanksgiving or not, last week was a banner week for middle market CLO deals, with no fewer than five pricing

Blue Owl launches second tech CLO
Building on an already-busy month, Blue Owl has priced its third CLO in as many weeks, with an upsized pricing of a new single-sector private credit CLO. 

Blackstone prices BDC CLO
The past few days have seen a bevy of action in the middle market CLO space – alongside Barings’ double deal and the new Athena II CLO from Blue Owl, Blackstone priced its first offering in the private credit space, with an upsized USD 492.665m transaction.

Scotia adds middle-market lead arranger credit with new Guggenheim CLO
Fresh off the back of its first CLO as sole structuring and lead placement agent, Scotiabank has followed up almost immediately with its second lead role in as many days, arranging Guggenheim’s new USD 475m middle-market CLO

PGIM pushes into the middle market with Windhill CLO 1
The latest in a brace of middle-market CLOs to hit the primary market this week was PGIM’s Windhill CLO 1, arranged by Natixis, which marked the manager’s debut in the middle market 

Barings prices two deals in a day
In a highly unusual move, Barings yesterday priced two middle market CLOs, worth a combined USD 862.15m, within hours of each other

Private credit lending continues to surge, according to AIMA report
Lending grew by more than 60% between 2021 and 2022 according to a new report entitled "Financing the Economy," by the Alternative Credit Council, a private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association.

Knoxville pension system commits USD 10m to direct lending fund
The pension fund is making its first direct lending allocation as it explores the asset class 

Pensions pivot from vanilla private credit to focus on niche sectors
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.

Private credit investors hail ‘golden age’ of rapid growth and low regulation
The “golden age” of private credit has arrived as investors take market share from banks, according to Scott Rosen, partner at Ares Management