Smaller, midsize insurers follow the trend into private credit, as managers find solutions to regulatory hurdles
Asset managers saw private fixed income investment from insurance clients jump 141% from 2021 to 2025, more than any other asset category, according to a report from Clearwater Analytics

New Mountain refinances rated feeder
Wells Fargo arranged the repricing of Guardian IV Rated Feeder I, in a deal valued at just over USD 178m

Banks, managers add staff for private credit syndication
Banks see private credit syndication as a way to reclaim fees as more borrowers tap both private credit and broadly syndicated loan markets, Mission Staffing managing director Eric Vaheb told Creditflux

North American private credit fundraising tumbles, ceding ground to global strategies—S&P Global
While fundraising boomed for European and multi-region private credit strategies, private credit focused on North America dropped 13% year-over-year

Capital One building a team in private-fund secondaries, private-capital raising
The Tysons, Virginia-based bank is looking for a managing director to lead the new Capital Solutions team

Foreign currency movements erase credit net returns at CPP Investments
Net returns across private and public credit fell to 3.7% in fiscal 2026 from 14.4% in 2025, the Canadian institutional investor reported

US direct lending deal volume falls off in 2Q, even as lenders become more open to AI risk—Configure
Sponsor-backed direct lending deal volume tumbled to less than half of what was recorded for the first quarter

Churchill taps King Street’s former head of capital solutions to lead new strategy
The Nuveen Private Capital subsidiary is launching its own capital solutions strategy that will provide senior and junior private debt to companies seeking customized financing

Share prices soar as Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR plan AI financing partnerships with NVIDIA
The technology company specializing in GPU development has signed memorandums of understanding with the six firms to establish independent compute financing platforms and deploy more than USD 500bn of capital

Silver Point enrolls in Learning Care ahead of crucial school year
Silver Point CLO and BDCs active buyers of Learning Care's 2028 term loan; funds managed by Ares, Carlyle sell or reduce positions in term loan

Private credit overthrows public fixed income as insurers’ top allocation priority – Mercer
Many insurers are seeking higher yielding investment options and have excess liquidity in their current investment grade portfolios, Mercer head of insurance solutions Eryn Bacewich told Creditflux

Some BDCs find early success in race to bring down redemption requests
EXCLUSIVE: Most perpetual nontraded BDCs, however, are expected to see elevated redemption activity throughout 2026 and possibly into 2027

Listed BDC BlackRock TCP will continue to realize losses even after portfolio sale – Fitch Ratings
The ratings agency is holding its negative rating outlook as the USD 523m portfolio sale to deleverage the listed BDC is unlikely to be enough to fight pressure on net investment income and dividend coverage

BC Partners' Rovner joins Runway Growth Capital as co-CEO
Michael Rovner, former managing director at BC Partners, has been named co-CEO and co-CIO at Runway Growth Capital

HarbourVest backs Willow Tree’s USD 730m private credit continuation vehicle
The continuation vehicle acquired a portfolio of primarily first-lien loans to sponsor-backed companies from the late 2020-vintage Willow Tree Fund II and parallel funds

Goldman’s Americas direct lending head David Miller to retire
Miller, who has spent 22 years at the firm, will transition to become an advisory director and chairman of Americas direct lending at the end of 2026, according to an internal memo seen by Creditflux

BlackRock’s listed BDC sells USD 523m private credit portfolio to Pantheon
The sale of assets will significantly cut the listed BDC’s exposure to the software sector

Carlyle enters fundraising ‘super cycle’, racking up USD 30bn in inflows for 1H
The alternative asset manager also expects to be back in market with its flagship credit opportunities fund

Marc Rowan predicts more to come on Apollo's CLO variant AMAPS
Apollo CEO Marc Rowan says that there is more to come with AMAPS, as he predicts that the industry will start moving more towards public markets

Strategic buyers drive financial services M&A as sponsors face AI disruption pressure
PE facing challenges on investment and exit sides; investment management maintains rising deal count, while sponsor appetite remains strong for insurance brokerages

Pace of improvement in credit quality slowing down – KBRA
KBRA’s second-quarter Private Credit Middle Market Compendium found evidence of mounting pressure building across the market, with median revenue and EBITDA compound annual growth rates declining to 12% and 24% respectively, from 13% and 27% in Q1

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

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

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