PAG closes 'largest' Asia-Pacific direct lending fund
PAG has closed its fifth pan-Asian direct lending fund, PAG Loan Fund V, at its $2.6 billion hard cap

Abu Dhabi's Chimera launches inaugural private credit offering
Abu Dhabi-based Chimera Capital has launched its first offering under its new credit unit, teaming up with Alpha Wave Global have teamed up to launch an open-ended credit fund

Fund performance: Wake us up when September ends
After a resurgent August, credit markets hit a rough patch in September, with every Creditflux index posting negative returns, and only 12.9% of funds in our listings showing a positive return.

Credit hedge fund returns (November 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

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

KKR and Mubadala form $1 billion Asian private credit partnership
KKR and Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala have formed a $1 billion ‘strategic partnership’ to co-invest across performing Asia private credit

Carlyle launches private credit JV to invest in Australia and New Zealand
Carlyle Group has teamed up with Australian-based credit firm Amicaa to launch a joint venture investing in opportunistic private credit in Australia and New Zealand

Apollo launches private credit JV with Belstar in Korea
Apollo says it has been “exploring the market opportunity in Korea with a heightened degree of interest for several years”

Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions

Five credit managers win nearly $1 billion from UK pension pool
Five private credit funds emerged as winners after UK pension pool Border to Coast revealed $1 billion in a wide variety of private credit commitments

LP round up: 28 credit managers win $6.6 billion as San Diego carves private credit allocation
Pensions allocated over $6.6 billion to credit managers in June including Angelo Gordon, Antares, Apollo, Ares, Beach Point, BioPharma, Brookfield, CarVal, Cerberus...

EU inflation prints frame challenge ahead as horror show first half ends
Financial markets are heading into the weekend with a rare stationary session, but the mood is more one of shellshock than considered positioning, after one of the worst first halves to a year on record

Bain collects $2 billion for second Asian special situations fund
Bain Capital has collected more than $2 billion for its second special situations fund, Bain Capital Special Situations Asia Fund II. The vehicle had an initial $1.5 billion target

Blackstone names senior Anchorage official as head of Asia Pacific origination
Blackstone Credit has hired a senior official from Anchorage to work lead Asia Pacific origination out of Sydney 

KKR collects $1.1 billion for inaugural Asia credit opportunities fund
The firm claims it is the “largest inaugural pan-regional fund focused on performing credit” and “one of the largest inaugural pan-regional credit funds to have been raised for Asia Pacific"

Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns

LP round up: Oak Hill wins $3bn mandate as credit allocations near $10bn in March
Institutional investors revealed over $9.5 billion of allocations to credit funds in March. Oak Hill Advisors walked away with the largest mandate, as US heavyweight pension Calpers allocated a whopping $3 billion across several of its funds

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

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  

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

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

Pennsylvania pension reveals $500 million in commitments to three private credit funds
Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement has revealed three private credit commitments as part of $1.1 billion in allocations to its alternatives bucket

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