Spire wins Creditflux Manager of the Year award
Spire Partners was the big winner at Creditflux's Manager Awards last night as the London-based manager scooped the award for the manager of the year. On top of this, the firm picked up awards for Best European CLO Manager and Best European CLO for Aurium CLO II

Monroe adds ex-Medley official to west coast origination team
The new hire will be based in Los Angeles 

Ninepoint teams up with US direct lender for fund launch
The move comes after the Canadian asset manager launched a new trade finance fund earlier this week

Capitala adds ex-Monroe official to lead Texas origination
Capitala Group has appointed an ex-Monroe managing director  to lead the origination in its newly opened Dallas office

Iowa pension to commit $200 million to private credit in 2019 as it addresses shortfalls
Iowa Public Employees Retirement System (IPERS) plans to make $200 million in private credit commitments during 2019, according to documents seen by Creditflux, comprising of $100 million each to Monroe Capital and Tennenbaum Capital Partners

Monroe launches $1.33 billion US direct lending fund
With leverage, Monroe Capital will have more than $2.5 billion of capital available for investments

Orange County pension fund commits to Monroe direct lending strategy
Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS), has committed $75 million to Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund III, but it's also reducing its overall allocation to credit    

Monroe prices second new issue mid-market CLO of 2018
Monroe Capital Partners has priced its second new issue middle market CLO of the year, according to market sources

Benefit Street Partners taps Monroe and BlackRock for private debt origination hires
Benefit Street Partners has made two senior appointments to its private debt origination team

Californian pension fund assigns $25 million to Monroe direct lending strategy
As part of its private credit pacing plan, the $5.4 billion pension fund will make a $75 million commitment to direct lending funds each year for the next three years

New Hampshire pension agrees $50 million investment in direct lending
New Hampshire Retirement System (NHRS) has committed $50 million to a Chicago-based direct lender

Missouri pension fund selects Brightwood and Monroe for private debt mandate
The St Louis Public School Retirement System has committed $22 million to private debt, according to board documents seen by Creditflux

Monroe hires vice president in investor relations team
Chicago-based direct lender Monroe has appointed Ryan Flanders as a vice president in its New York office

Chicago manager holds initial close for $1 billion private credit fund
Monroe Capital has held a $348 million initial close for its third private credit fund, which has a $1 billion hard cap, market sources say

Middle-market lender to debut $1.5 billion special situations credit fund
Chicago-based Monroe Capital is launching a special situations credit fund with a $1 billion target size, according to market sources

Monroe's new CLO suggests increasing demand for mid market deals
The basis between middle market CLOs and CLOs backed by broadly syndicated loans is (slowly) shrinking

Mid-market lender Monroe signs JV with National Life
Monroe and National Life each put $50 million into new venture then look to add leverage

Monroe's latest private credit fund reaches first close at $204.8 million
The firm's newly launched Private Credit Fund III is inching closer to its $800 million target

Monroe holds $300 million first close for private credit fund
Chicago-based Monroe Capital has held its first close on its 2017 Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund in the amount of $300 million, a source close to the situation confirms

Monroe sees to it that endoscope specialist obtains $26 million loan
Middle-market direct lending firm Monroe Capital has acted as sole arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a $26.3 million senior credit facility

Monroe Capital adds loan to Delaware flooring maker Parterre
Monroe Capital makes loan to Tower Three Partners-backed Parterre Flooring & Surface Systems

Monroe moves into special situations credit after hiring from Melody
US middle-market lender Monroe Capital is expanding into special situations credit

$36 billion pension fund raises its target allocation to private debt
A large US public pension fund has recently agreed to increase its target allocation to private debt