Oaktree closes life science fund with highest amount ever raised in the space
Oaktree Capital Management has raised more than $2.3 billion for its Life Sciences Lending Fund, the largest amount the firm has ever raised in the life sciences space.

L Catterton expands credit platform with new co-head of private credit
L Catterton's private credit platform is in expansion mode, announcing a new managing partner and co-head of private credit

Private credit firm launches new platform for structured financing
Private credit manager Victory Park Capital has launched Triumph Capital Markets, a new platform that focuses on structured financing and capital markets

Carlyle names future CFO
Carlyle has named John Redett its new chief financial officer and head of corporate strategy, the company has said.

Private credit is still the number one topic for investors, hears conference
Delegates at the Debtwire Private Credit Forum 2023 heard that private credit has become the favourite topic for institutional investors

Letter from the editor
It’s a curious thing to come back to your beginning, but that’s where I find myself, writing this letter as the new editor of Creditflux. I first joined 17 years ago, fresh out of university. 

We pulled back because yields didn’t seem to match the risk. Now it’s better
During visits to Melbourne and Sydney last month, conversations with clients and friends about private debt revealed important contexts to understanding how investors there think about the asset class.

Credit funds at a glance
Fund raising and people moves

Credit hedge funds
Credit hedge fund returns

Fund performance
A roundup of fund performance

Blue Owl surpasses $1 billion mid market CLOs in 2023 as asset class booms
Blue Owl Capital became the second firm to print three middle market CLOs in 2023 on Tuesday, surpassing $1 billion in volumes for the year

BMO hires ex-Deutsche Bank CLO structurer
BMO Capital Markets has hired an ex-Deutsche Bank structurer to lead its structured credit origination business in North America.

HPS announces close for second core senior lending fund
HPS Investment Partners has closed its second Core Senior Lending Fund known as CSL II with around $10 billion of capital to invest

Market gears up for the Debtwire US Private Credit Forum 2023
Speakers in New York will discuss topics from LP insights and software lending to distressed situations and CLOs

Stonepeak hires veteran investor to expand credit team
Stonepeak, an asset manager specializing in infrastructure, announced that Michael Leitner has joined the firm as a senior managing director.

Apollo launches private markets secondary fund
Apollo has registered to launch its new private markets secondaries vehicle, Apollo S3 Private Markets Fund

Mid market CLO issuance tops $2bn for the month as MidCap prices
Apollo affiliate MidCap Financial priced a middle market CLO on Friday named Woodmont CLO 2023-12, a deal that brought mid market CLO issuance for the month over $2 billion

Maranon prints its first mid market CLO of 2023
Maranon Management priced a new middle market CLO today at $405.8 million, according to market sources. Named Maranon CLO 2023-1

Brightwood names former Wells Fargo MD as new chief credit officer
Brightwood Capital Advisors has hired Eric Pratt as chief credit officer in New York

Cerberus prices its first GreensLedge-arranged CLO
Cerberus Business Finance priced a new middle market CLO on Friday, and worked with a new arranger for the first time since 2014

LP round up: HPS wins $550m mandate as Ares launches third US direct lending fund
US institutional investors allocated nearly $3 billion to credit funds in April. The news comes amid a BlackRock survey in the month which showed significant investor interest in private credit

TPG in talks to buy Angelo Gordon: Bloomberg
The deal marks the private equity firm’s first foray into credit since parting ways with its credit arm Sixth Street in 2020

Managers raise rated-note feeders despite scrutiny from US insurance association
Alongside its investigation into CLOs, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is weighing up its treatment of collateralised fund obligations (CFOs) and rated-note feeders

Credit hedge fund returns (May 2023)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (May 2023)
A round-up of people moves and fund raising