AB targets software companies after niche securitisation
Deutsche Bank priced an unusual securitisation for AB last month. The deal accommodates the manager’s expertise in the software and technology sector

All rise: investor fights inflation with litigation financing
With the US consumer price index rising to 7.5% in February, investors are looking to niche investment strategies to hedge against inflationary pressure

Churchill names Wells Fargo official to newly created head of fund finance role
Churchill Asset Management has created the new role of head of fund finance to help it utilise leverage strategically across its fund strategies

GoldenTree hires Goldman Sachs official as head of private credit origination
GoldenTree Asset Management has hired Goldman Sachs official as partner and head of private credit origination

MidCap doubles size of 2018 CLO with reset
MidCap Financial almost doubled the size of its 2018 CLO named Woodmont 2018-4 Trust by resetting the deal via Deutsche Bank on Friday

Crescent raises $6 billion for US direct lending strategy
Crescent Capital Group has closed its third US direct lending fund, Crescent Direct Lending Fund III, with $6 billion of investable capital 

Blue Owl reaches agreement to buy CLO manager Wellfleet
Blue Owl Capital, owner of Owl Rock Capital Partners a mid market CLO manager, has reached an agreement to buy Wellfleet Credit Partners from Littlejohn & Co

Man names co-heads for new SRT business
Man Group has appointed two Elanus Capital officials as co-heads of its new credit risk sharing strategy, which will sit in its $3.5 billion private market business

Want an upsize with that reset?: Golub follows Ivy Hill with mid market CLO
Golub Capital made it two mid market CLO resets in two days by reworking its 2016 CLO, Golub 30 (M)-R, and upsizing the deal by $196.4 million from the original size

Ivy Hill resets 2014 mid market CLO and upsizes by $140 million
Ivy Hill Asset Management reset Ivy Hill MM IX-R via Natixis on Monday, upsizing the 2014 CLO by $139.8 million including $33 million of fresh equity capital

PennantPark prints mid market CLO with triple As at 170bp
PennantPark Investment Advisers on Friday priced its first middle market CLO of 2022

Blackstone prints largest CLO in $1.1 billion mid-market deal
Blackstone Credit has produced the fourth US CLO under the BCRED shelf with the firm pricing a $1.09 billion middle market CLO on Thursday

Monroe prints first reinvesting mid market CLO linked to Sofr
Monroe Capital has become the second middle market CLO issuer to print a new deal in 2022 by teaming up with Deutsche Bank on Wednesday to print Monroe Capital MML CLO XIII at $456.5 million

LP round up: two CLO funds win support as Cali pensions home in on private credit
Two investors revealed allocations to European and US CLO funds, private credit allocations increases and private credit consultant searches get underway

PineBridge collects $1.7 billion for second US direct lending strategy
The fundraise brings PineBridge’s private credit assets under management to $3.3 billion

Infrastructure manager targets €1 billion for eclectic mix of project finance debt and SRTs
A Copenhagen-based firm is launching its first credit fund and has partnered with an SRT specialist in London for a component of its potential €1 billion offering  

Coller closes $1.4 billion private credit secondaries fund
Coller has nearly doubled the target size of its inaugural private credit secondaries fund, Coller Credit Opportunities I

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

Past returns: Ares constructs private CLO
In Creditflux 10 years ago we reported on Ares Management putting together a quasi-CLO in a bilateral transaction involving senior debt investor Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

"‘B-level’ assets could struggle to find optimal valuations"
Acquisitions are increasing and companies focused on health and technology could benefit

CLO managers to ramp up mid-market loan holdings
Mid-market loans may increasingly infiltrate broadly syndicated loan CLOs as managers seek to boost returns amid tighter leveraged loan spreads

Barclays seeks head of SRT risk
Barclays is looking to hire a head of SRT risk for its wholesale credit portfolio, having established a credit risk transfer programme under the Colonnade branding 

Madison Capital refis 2019 mid market CLO via Natixis
Madison Capital teamed up with Natixis on Thursday to refinance its most recent CLO from 2019

Monroe markets first reinvesting middle market CLO linked to Sofr
Monroe Capital has launched a new middle market CLO with Deutsche Bank, which is believed to be the first reinvesting mid market deal linked to Sofr

Credit Rendezvous: the upside of inflation
It is clear, inflation is not transitory and central banks are acting with several interest rate hikes likely in store for the US this year. That makes loans and CLO debt tranches attractive, but there could be opportunities beyond these floating rate assets