Crescent pulls in capital-charge-sensitive insurers for CLO equity fund
Managing director and head of tradeable credit John Fekete told Creditflux that the cash-on-cash distributions of CLO equity look particularly attractive as private equity struggles with returning distributions to investors

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

Spate of new private credit CLOs issue from PennantPark, Cerberus and Jefferies Credit Partners
PennantPark CLO 13 issued on Tuesday through Scotiabank on a short-dated timetable, while Cerberus Loan Funding 54 and Jefferies Credit Partners Direct Lending CLO 2026-1 were both structured as conventional-duration 2Y/4Y deals

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

Eagle Point leads USD 1.3bn HoldCo loan for data center deal tied to Anthropic
The CLO specialist used its growing infrastructure credit team to provide the loan, which makes up a portion of a USD 16bn data center financing deal in Texas

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

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

Latest Ares private credit CLO sees AAAs clear at 145bps
Ivy Hill Middle Market Credit Fund XXV issued with a value of USD 403.2m and a 2Y/5Y schedule

BlackRock becomes latest to issue static private credit CLO
The manager's latest print follows static private credit CLO prints in recent months from Fortress, Blackstone and Barings, as well as the manager's own BlackRock DLF IX-L CLO 2026 Static in January, which issued as an unusual single-tranche CLO

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

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

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