North Carolina, Wyoming among systems pursuing alternative credit strategies
North Carolina commits USD 500m, plans another USD 2.8bn; Wyoming, Texas, Illinois target ABL, tactical, opportunistic strategies

Barings prices latest BSL CLO via Deutsche Bank
The capital structure for Barings CLO 2026-II included senior/junior splits for both the triple As and triple Bs

Guggenheim resets three-year-old private credit CLO
The triple As priced at SOFR plus 163bps, narrowing 87bps from their existing spread level

Crescent raises USD 10.8bn for direct lending, targeting lower mid-market
The firm’s fourth US direct lending fund was oversubscribed and exceeded its target by more than USD 2.5bn

Obra closes fourth CLO
The manager's latest deal takes its total CLO AUM to over USD 1.75bn since its market debut in November 2024

Oak Hill goes another round with 2013-vintage CLO
Oak Hill Advisors has reset a 13-year-old CLO via Citi, with the USD 576m issue marking the fourth reworking of the deal

Barings works with Pacer to launch two CLO-focused ETFs
One product will focus on investment grade CLO tranches while the other will aim to provide sub-IG CLO and secured debt exposures

GreensLedge head of structured credit investments retires
Matthew Natcharian, a CLO and CBO industry veteran with nearly 30 years of experience, announced his exit this week

Palmer Square prices new US CLO with weighted cost of debt under 148bps
The beginning of the week also saw Arini price its seventh US CLO via Scotiabank

DWS issues 15th infrastructure CLO
DWS has priced RIN XV, the latest in its series of BSL infrastructure CLOs, as a USD 405.4m transaction via Scotiabank

US private credit CLO performance shows resilience—S&P
A new report from S&P Global Ratings shows US private credit CLO performance continued to show resilience in April, despite negative headlines

Older, US direct lending funds hold more equity positions, adding risk – MSCI
EXCLUSIVE: Around 15% of the total assets across US senior direct lending funds tracked by MSCI are equity positions of some kind, MSCI head of private credit research Patrick Warren told Creditflux

Sona prices second US CLO less than two months after inaugural deal
The London-headquartered alternative asset manager followed up its debut US issue in early April with an upsized EUR 502.5m transaction on Thursday

GoldenTree tightens US CLO AAA benchmark to 118bps with USD 726m new issue
Unusually, the deal featured three arrangers, with Bank of America taking the lead and Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo acting as co-arrangers

Ares’ semi-liquid BDC boosts borrowing capacity
Ares Strategic Income Fund, a semi-liquid private credit fund designed for individual investors, increased the amount of liquidity available on hand after an uptick in investor exit requests

New Mexico, Los Angeles systems make tactical credit allocations
New Mexico re-ups USD 550m for Silver Rock's tactical allocation strategy; Los Angeles pension commits USD 80m to Hayfin's European credit fund

Growing private-equity, private-credit fund sizes threaten IRR—Texas TRS
EXCLUSIVE: The US pension giant told Creditflux that it wishes both private equity and private credit managers would raise smaller funds and focus on returns rather than AUM growth 

Around half of private credit originators use AI tools—Armentum
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly all of the 150 private credit managers surveyed by Armentum Partners this year said they use AI for research, and around 20% are specifically using AI tools as part of underwriting

Bain prices USD 612m BSL CLO
The transaction, arranged by Jefferies, was the manager's third new US issue for the year

BBAM prices seventh US CLO, plans four more deals globally over next 12 months
BBAM US CLO VII issued its senior triple A paper at SOFR plus 123bps

CLO equity and private credit offer comparable returns—Texas TRS
EXCLUSIVE: The US institutional investor giant approaches credit investments opportunistically and as it seeks to achieve a 7% return target for its overall portfolio, CIO Jase Auby told Creditflux

Barings raises more than USD 19bn for global direct lending strategy
The firm raised capital from institutional, insurance and private wealth investors globally

US CLO spreads break 120bp barrier as Oak Hill Advisors prices latest issue
OHA Credit Funding 26 priced the tightest standard-duration US deal in almost two months, while the end of the week also saw KKR printing its latest new-issue deal

New US BSL CLOs issue from Elmwood, Apollo and Five Arrows as AAA spreads solidify at 120bps
Elmwood and Apollo have priced new half-billion-dollar US BSL CLOs this week, as Five Arrows also printed a new USD 405m transaction via Citi

Temasek taps Pinegrove for venture debt partnership
The Singaporean state investment firm intends to lend directly to growth stage technology and life sciences companies