Blackstone reports 18% return from private credit over last 12 months
Blackstone's private credit and liquid credit returns outperform private equity investments in the last 12 months

Alternative PE lending puts pressure on LP-GP alignment
Loans that use fund NAV or GP earnings as collateral are growing in popularity. But some feel these deals could have unforeseen effects and hinder transparency in LP relationships

Blue Owl scoops up Atalaya Capital for USD 450m
Private credit manager Blue Owl Capital is raising the stakes on its place in the USD 1.7trn global market with the purchase of asset-based credit specialist Atalaya Capital

Boston pension system selects new private credit manager
The Boston Retirement System has selected a new manager and made a commitment to its private debt strategy, according to recently released minutes

Webster Bank and Marathon form private credit tie-up
Webster Bank and Marathon Asset Management have joined the ranks of traditional banks forming partnerships with asset managers 

First Eagle prices the market’s second MM refi of 2024
First Eagle last week priced a rare refinancing of a private credit deal - Lake Shore MM CLO II, a middle-market CLO from 2019

Ares receives another USD 100m for its third direct lending fund
Ares Management continues to inch towards its goal of raising USD 10bn for its third senior direct lending fund with a recent commitment from a pension fund.

Sagard targets North American middle market opportunities with new senior lending fund - partner
Sagard, a Power Corporation of Canada alternative asset investment platform, will provide first-lien financing to lower middle market and middle market US and Canadian companies

Corinthia eyes mid-June start
Corinthia Global Management, the start-up firm that’s shaking up the USD 1.7trn private credit space, is laying the foundations for mid-June market entrance

BlackRock expands investment grade private credit team
BlackRock has hired a senior executive from Pacific Life to lead the firm’s investment grade private placement platform

Major banks embrace private credit partnerships as they target non‑traditional lending
PNC Financial Services Group and TCW Group are the latest to team up to launch a private credit platform, as non-traditional bank lending continues to attract established banks.

New Mountain Capital BDC raises nearly USD 860m
New York-based alternative asset manager New Mountain Capital has held close of its New Mountain Guardian IV BDC 

Funds round up: April 2024
Allocations to private credit and new fund launches continued to roll out in April, as our monthly round-up confirms

Golub raises USD 2bn for sixth credit opportunities fund
Golub Capital has held the final close of the sixth vintage of its credit opportunities fund, raising USD 2bn

Man Group hires new senior managing director for private credit business
Man Group has hired a New York-based senior managing director to lead the firm's client engagement and strategic efforts in private credit and direct lending

Golub hires from MetLife for new insurance solutions team
Golub Capital has launched a new insurance solutions team, as the firm continues its multi-year plan to build out its investor partners group

Debtwire FY23 US Direct Lender Rankings
US-based direct lenders chalked up nearly 2,000 disclosed facilities in 2023, a year in which deal value totaled USD 169.2bn 

Antares hires CSAM managing director
Antares Capital has hired a new managing director and global head of product strategy and development from CSAM

Baltimore pension system puts USD 35m into private credit fund
The City of Baltimore's Fire & Police Employees' Retirement System recently allocated USD 35m to a private credit fund

Private credit firms chase opportunities in asset based lending as US banks withdraw
Lending against assets is becoming the fastest growing part of private credit. The market is expected to grow from roughly USD 787bn in 2024 to more than USD 1.26trn in 2028, according to a report by Research and Markets, a data and statistics firm.

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Private credit is the regulatory fix that became an asset class
Institutional investors have pushed private credit to greater scale than either loans or bonds

185bps settles in as MM CLO benchmark as Cerberus prices
Specialist middle market manager Cerberus added a second new issue to its 2024 roster on Friday, arranged by GreensLedge

BlackRock keeps up issuance with new middle market CLO
In a flurry of activity, BlackRock followed its Magnetite XVII reset last Tuesday with a new middle market CLO deal the following Wednesday, just outside the tightest such deal recorded so far this year

Schroders Capital adds two senior members to private debt and credit alternatives platform
Schroders has made two senior-level hires following last fall's consolidation of its debt and alternative credit strategies onto a single platform