Pretium strikes $2.5 billion partnership with American Equity Life
Pretium has secured further capital from American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company, taking the insurers' commitment to Pretium up to $1 billion with an agreement to extend this to $2.25 billion, according to the announcemen

Greystone reaches $1 billion for real estate debt fund after re-opening fundraising
Greystone has collected a further $250 million from investors for its inaugural real estate debt fund, Greystone Senior Debt Opportunity Fund (B) after the firm decided to re-open fundraising

LP round up: EIF backs four debt funds while Carlyle wins $1 billion
Institutional investors have allocated just over $4 billion to 27 credit managers in October board meetings

Window or aisle? Pimco jets off with GE for $3 billion aircraft leasing platform
Pimco has partnered with GE Capital Aviation Services to launch a $3 billion aviation leasing platform, which the pair say will “provide financing to help airlines upgrade their fleets at critical time for the aviation industry”

Macquarie raises €1.2 billion for sub-IG infra debt strategy
Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Sub-Investment Grade Fund closed at around €730 million. With managed accounts and co-investments, the firm has around €1.2 billion to deploy in the strategy

LaSalle hits €435 million first close on its fourth flagship real estate debt fund
LaSalle has held a €435 million first close on a fourth flagship real estate debt fund, LaSalle Real Estate Debt Strategies IV, nearly halfway to its €1 billion target size

Credit funds at a glance (October 2020)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves

Credit fundraising: managers build homes for real estate credit funds
The “largest ever real estate credit fund” was one of the fundraising highlights last month as Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies IV fund reached $8 billion on its final close

Aegon targets ABS for new fund
Aegon Asset Management says it has launched a global ABS fund with a return target of Euribor plus 500 basis points

Blackstone raises $8 billion for 'largest real estate debt fund ever'
Blackstone is flush with cash to deploy into commercial real estate properties after finalising fundraising on its latest real estate debt fund, Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies IV

Credit funds at a glance (September 2020)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves

Brunswick launches third real estate debt fund with Folksam and KLP backing
Brunswick Real Estate has launched a third senior commercial real estate debt fund Brunswick Real Estate Capital III

Credit fundraising: distressed keeps in favour but CLO ETFs emerge
Five months into global lockdown and distressed debt funds are still proving popular, but several managers have found success pitching other types of credit strategies

LP round up: Connecticut eyes Fortress for private credit partnership
Investors placed $3.3 billion across 26 credit mandates over the past fortnight, according to documents seen by Creditflux 

Credit funds at a glance (August 2020)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves

Aon wraps up fundraising for $350 million opportunistic credit fund
The fund will target global investments across public corporate and structured credit, stressed credit and real estate debt

Castlelake targets $750 million for add-on to fifth distressed fund
Castlelake has launched an add=on vehicle to its fifth distressed flagship fund in order to take advantage of opportunities that have resulted due to the covid-19-related market dislocation, according to documents seen by Creditflux

Prime launches global fund of niche credit funds
Prime Capital is preparing a new fund of niche credit funds in a strategy the firm has dubbed Liquid Alternative Credit Fund, and the Frankfurt-based manager will launch the fund with $30 million capital from three seed investors

First Eagle prepares corporate credit interval fund
First Eagle Investment Management is preparing to launch a new opportunistic credit strategy in the form of an interval fund

GSO reaches $7 billion for real estate debt fund
GSO’s latest real estate debt fund pulled in $2.1 billion across the second quarter and the vehicle’s AUM has now reached around $7 billion, according to Blackstone president and chief operating officer Jonathan Gray

Schroders lands €312 million in first close of infra debt fund
Schroders has held a first close at €312 million for Schroder Euro Enhanced Infrastructure Debt Fund II

KKR closes CMBS risk retention fund at $950 million
KKR has held a $950 million final close on its risk retention real estate debt fund, KKR Real Estate Credit Opportunity Partners II

Axa IM reaches €1.05 billion for second infra debt fund
Axa Investment Managers’ real assets division has closed its second European infrastructure debt fund, European Infrastructure Senior 2, at €1.05 billion

Credit funds at a glance (July 2020)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves

MSD collects $1.1 billion for real estate debt fund
MSD Partners has held a final close on its real estate debt fund, MSD Real Estate Credit Opportunities Fund