ETFs open up to CLOs as PineBridge/VanEck team up
Although CLO triple A investors are scarce at present, CLO exchange traded-funds are becoming a bigger part of the investment community after PineBridge Investments partnered with VanEck to launch VanEck CLO ETF (CLOI) last month.

Barings closes European private credit fund at €7 billion
Barings says it has raised €7 billion for European Private Loan Fund and related vehicles, having deployed €6 billion into 80 transactions of the last 18 months

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...

Bluerock and WhiteStar unveil CLO interval fund
Bluerock has partnered with CLO specialist WhiteStar Asset Management to launch an interval fund, named Bluerock High Income Institutional Credit Fund, focused on CLO tranche investing

PineBridge and VanEck launch investment grade CLO ETF
VanEck has teamed up with PineBridge Investments to launch an exchenge-traded CLO fund named VanEck CLO ETF (CLOI)

USS makes ABS breakthrough with £1 billion-plus mandate
USS says it has launched its first ABS mandate which is “likely to exceed £1 billion {$1.2 billion]” over the next couple of years

Private fund All Seas builds momentum with third investment
All Seas Capital – the direct lender launched by former KKR executives in 2019 – has signed its third direct lending investment

Victory Park collects $2.4 billion for asset-backed credit strategy
Victory Park Capital has raised $2.4 billion for its latest asset-backed opportunistic credit strategy

Ivy climbs to $115 million final close for US direct lending fund
Ivy Asset Group has held a $115 million final close of its US direct lending fund named 2022 Ivy Credit Opportunity Fund

ArrowMark targets $300 million for commercial real estate
ArrowMark Partners is targeting $300 million for a structured finance real estate fund

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

JP Morgan AM targets global special situations after $2.4 billion raise
JP Morgan Asset Management says it has raised $2.4 billion for Lynstone Special Situations Fund II to invest in stressed, distressed and event driven situations

MidOcean seeks "off-the-run" loans and bonds for third tactical credit fund
MidOcean Partners is seeking to raise capital for its third tactical credit fund, MidOcean Tactical Credit Fund III

Sound Point plots first US direct lending fund following CVC acquisition
Sound Point Capital Management is looking to fundraise for its its first US direct lending fund since acquiring CVC’s US direct lending unit

Leucadia seeds European distressed and credit opps firm Pearlstone
New opportunistic credit firm Pearlstone Alternative has received backing from Leucadia Asset Management in the form of seed capital and distribution services

LP round up: Oak Hill wins $300 million for strategic credit and Arcmont eyes fund four
US investors allocated nearly $1.5 billion to credit funds in May, with managers to win mandates including: 400, Accel-KKR, Advent, Arcmont, ArrowMark, Comvest, Edelweiss, Francsico, Oak Hill, Sixth Street and Sprott

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

EIF back's Irish direct lender's €335 million fund
The European Investment Fund has made its first 'diversified' debt fund investment in Ireland after allocating €70 million to DunPort Capital Management’s Oak Corporate Credit DAC

Nuveen targets €500 million for inaugural pan-European real estate debt fund
Nuveen has made a first close on its fourth commercial real estate debt fund, expanding its geographical focus for the latest series from a UK-focused only to a pan-European strategy

400 Capital targets $600 million for opportunistic structured credit fund
The fund is targeting a $600 million final close next month with target net returns of 12-15%

Angelo Gordon closes $3.1 billion credit solutions fund in seven months
Fundraising for AG Credit Solutions II means the firm’s all-weather distressed and special situations platform has grown to $11 billion.

Pantheon exceeds $500 million target for second private debt secondaries fund
Pantheon has held a final close of its second private debt secondaries fund, Pantheon Senior Debt II, at $834 million

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"

Barrow Hanley holds final close on captive CLO equity fund
Barrow Hanley Global Investors has held a second and final close of its CLO equity fund at $120.5 million

HSBC raises $1 billion for UK direct lending
The strategy was launched in early 2021 as part of the firm’s ambition to grow its alternatives capabilities