2023: a bumper year for CLO funds
It looks like 2023 will finish as a solid year for most credit funds, and an outstanding one for CLO funds. But funds pursuing corporate distressed strategies continued to struggle

Credit hedge funds
Credit hedge fund performance

Credit funds at a glance
Credit funds at a glance

Greensledge arranges new private credit CFO
Churchill Asset Management, an investment-specialist affiliate of Nuveen, announced on Monday it had closed its second collateralised fund obligation, or CFO

llinois Municipal Retirement Fund pumps hundreds of million more into private credit
The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund has approved another round of alternative investment commitments, this time totaling USD 544m, including USD 400m allocated to private credit 

AustralianSuper increases private credit allocation as it seeks to triple exposure to the market
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

Canadian venture capital lender secures USD 150m for tech-focused private credit fund
Vistara raised fresh capital for its strategy of lending between USD 10m and USD 30m to mid-to-later-stage software companies across North America

Goldman Sachs shakes up private credit team
Goldman Sachs is rearranging its senior-level private credit team with the appointment of Greg Olafson as global head of private credit. 

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.