New US CLO issuance maintains consistent pace with prints from Antares, Northwestern and TPG
The three managers collectively priced USD 1.3bn of paper over Friday and Monday, with Antares' Orion CLO 2026-8 issuing the tightest triple A notes of the trio at SOFR plus 120bps

Fidelity issues new Euro CLO
Fidelity has priced a new European CLO through Bank of America, with the triple A paper split across one note and two loan tranches

Private credit drives nearly half of Blackstone inflows in Q2
The alternative asset management giant said institutional investors are continuing to commit capital but also that redemption requests for its semi-liquid direct lending fund BCRED appear to be slowing

Ares' newest European CLO prints AAAs at 125bps
Ares' latest Euro BSL issue has priced through BNP Paribas, with the conventionally-structured deal valued at just over EUR 405m

RBC BlueBay taps Destra to distribute CLO interval fund
The new RBC BlueBay Enhanced Income Fund invests in equity and junior debt tranches of CLOs and will be sold to financial advisors and their clients

Golub adds managing director to European direct lending team
Timothée Delisle previously held positions at firms such as Morgan Stanley, Alcentra, BlackRock, and HSBC

Blackstone, Wellington and Vanguard collaborate on all-in-one private market vehicles for wealth channel
The three asset managers have launched two products that will give individual investors exposure to a mix of private market assets within a single allocation

CIFC, TPG Credit print European CLO resets
CIFC paired with Goldman Sachs to issue a reworking of its first European CLO that originally priced in 2019, while TPG's repricing of its 2022-vintage Northwoods Capital 26 Euro was arranged through Citi

T. Rowe issues second CLO
T. Rowe Price has followed up the debut of its own CLO issuance platform in February with a second US BSL offering, priced via Bank of America

Private credit secondaries deals more than doubled in 1H—Evercore
The first half of the year saw private credit secondaries volume balloon to USD 20bn, surpassing full-year 2025 volumes, with GP-led deals dominating, a new report from Evercore shows

Dispersion is creating value in credit despite tight spreads – PIMCO
PODCAST: While index spreads remain tight, dispersion is quite elevated, which rewards those who do the credit work, says Lotfi Karoui, multi-asset credit strategist at fixed-income behemoth PIMCO, on the latest episode of Credit Exchange with Lisa Lee

GoldenTree hits USD 2.75bn hard cap for sophomore private credit fund
The firm’s employees and partners committed USD 50m to the fund, the company announced

US CLO issuance may slow despite favorable NAIC guidance
EXCLUSIVE: New guidance is favorable to US insurers buying triple-A, double-A and single-A tranches, but will not beat the current supply-demand dynamics and poor arb, BofA CLO research chief says

Marathon issues first CLO under CVC ownership
Marathon Asset Management has priced its first new CLO since CVC's acquisition of the asset manager closed at the beginning of July

BlackRock's latest Euro CLO prints AAAs at 126bps
BlackRock European CLO XVII printed as a EUR 405m transaction through Bank of America

BlackRock private market inflows led by private credit as spreads widen
Institutional investors want to put more private credit money to work in this environment, the global asset management giant said on its earnings call

Crescent gauges interest in multi-asset, private and public credit CLOs
The firm says it has already seen BSL CLOs buy secondary direct lending assets, and it is discussing whether there is demand for multi-asset products levered like a CLO, John Fekete told Creditflux

ICG prints first new US CLO in a year
The manager paired with CIBC to price ICG US CLO 2026-1 as a USD 403m offering

RBC BlueBay prices tenth European CLO
BBAM European CLO X issued via Goldman Sachs, with RBC also acting as a co-placement agent on the deal

Muzinich resets, upsizes 2024-vintage US CLO
Muzinich has upsized a 2024-vintage US BSL CLO as part of a reset that priced via Scotiabank on Tuesday

CalPERS posts 11% net return for private debt, improves funded status
The California Public Employees Retirement System, one of the largest institutional investors, released preliminary investment results for the 2025-2026 fiscal year

Most BDCs can survive liquidity stress test – Moody’s
Moody’s Ratings has conducted a stress test on the BDC sector which concluded that liquidity remains sound

Private credit and direct lending to grow their share of the loan market—LMA report
A new LMA survey of 234 loan market professionals found that 43% believe private credit and direct lending will grow their share of the EMEA loan market by 2040

Houlihan hires HarbourVest MD in GP-led secondaries push 
Dan Buffery joins the investment bank to help lead the firm’s North American GP-led secondaries advisory business

Voya and Northwestern Mutual issue 2024-vintage US CLO resets
The managers issued the deals through Scotiabank and Bank of America, respectively