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  

Coller closes $1.4 billion private credit secondaries fund
Coller has nearly doubled the target size of its inaugural private credit secondaries fund, Coller Credit Opportunities I

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

Oaktree closes $3 billion real estate debt fund with 55% deployment
Oaktree Capital Management held a roughly $3 billion final close on its third global real estate debt strategy, Real Estate Debt Fund III

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

BC closes $1.2 billion second special opportunities fund 12 months’ incubation
BCP Special Opportunities Fund II has collected $1.2 billion in capital commitments - but a year later than it originally earmarked a final close

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

Credit Fundraising: mega funds contribute to record-breaking month as volume hits $39bn
The sheer size of the funds raised in November more than compensated for a drop in the number of funds raised as fundraising volume in credit reached $38.9 billion. This beat September by $2.4 billion to make it the most productive month of credit fundraising in 2021

Ares rounds out bumper year for direct lending with $14 billion US fund
Ares Management is ending 2021 with yet another massive direct lending fund-raise

Past form points to bleak picture for IG fund flows as new covid variant emerges: BofA
With a new covid-19 variant for investors to worry about, faltering high grade fund flows face additional headwinds versus high yield and government bonds

Oaktree raises largest ever fund with $15.9 billion for "opportunistic credit" strategy
Oaktree Capital Management has closed its largest ever fund, collecting a whopping $15.9 billion on its latest opportunistic credit strategy, Oaktree Opportunities Fund XI

HPS targets $9.5 billion for fifth mezzanine debt fund
HPS Investment Partners is targeting $9.5 billion for its fifth global mezzanine debt fund, HPS Strategic Investment Partners V - but unlike earlier vintages, HPS says it will not target opportunities within the upstream energy space

Credit Fundraising: Private credit and CLO captive equity feature strongly as closes mount up
Credit funds have made a fair start to the fourth quarter, although the $21 billion raised during October is down substantially on September’s impressive record for 2021

Credit funds at a glance (November 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Points up front: Definitely not an ex-parrot
One of the biggest credit fund launches last month was Arini, led by star credit trader Hamza Lemssouguer  

Real estate manager wins $50 million debt mandate from 'Hong Kong insurer'
Patrizia has secured a $50 million commitment from a Hong Kong insurer to invest in real estate debt

Axa IM launches multi-strat fund for pensions
Axa Investment Managers’ ‘alternatives’ business has launched an open-ended strategy for pension funds

LP round up: no Stoptober as investors allocate $5 billion to credit
US institutional investors allocated $5 billion to credit funds in October, with Oak Hill and Pimco among the biggest mandates    

Lazard targets IG, crossover and HY in long/short credit ucits fund
Lazard Asset Management has unveiled a new credit ucits fund that will invest primarily in investment grade, crossover and high yield bonds in Europe and North America

New York pension favours credit as it pumps $1.1 billion into tech, loans and distressed
New York State Common Retirement Fund has splurged over $1 billion in credit, topping allocations it made in equities and real estate

UK pension readies £1.3 billion listed alternatives fund
The fund will provide liquid access to infrastructure, specialist real estate, private equity and alternative credit

Vanguard opens subscriptions for core-plus bond fund
Vanguard Core-Plus Bond Fund builds on the firm's original Core Bond fund but with greater exposure to high yield and emerging markets investments

Francisco Partners keeps 100% investor retention for second $2.2 billion credit fund
The firm’s second technology-focused opportunistic credit fund hit its $2.2 billion hard cap - and the firm says all investors in its first fund invested in the follow-up 

Credit funds at a glance (October 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit