Apera secures EUR 2.9bn for European lower middle market lending
The fundraise for Apera Private Debt Fund III is double the size of its predecessor vehicle

BC Partners secures USD 1.4bn for flexible, opportunistic credit
The private credit arm of the firm held a final close for its Special Opportunities Fund III

PAG raises USD 1.25bn for significant risk transfers
The Hong Kong-based alternative asset manager is expecting the SRT market to grow at a 30% to 40% rate annually over the next few years

Singapore plans USD 1bn private credit growth fund
The fund will be used to fund local enterprises, the prime minister and minister of finance said

Oaktree lowered its distressed debt fundraise to USD 16bn
The market and investment environment for distressed debt shifted, and investors asked whether the original target was too big.

Global Private Credit AUM to reach USD 3trn by 2028 - Moody’s
Global private credit AUM is poised to hit USD 3trn by 2028, Moody's predicts, with momentum expected to grow over the next three years

SC Lowy winds down liquid credit fund in private credit pivot
SC Lowy plans to wind down its open-ended liquid credit fund and launch a new interval fund for private credit investments

Carlyle’s AlpInvest and Mubadala establish fund financing partnership
Carlyle Group subsidiary AlpInvest Partners and Mubadala have set up a new credit co-investment partnership to provide portfolio senior fund financing on a global basis  

Temasek raises USD 1.3bn for Asian private credit fund
Temasek's SeaTown Private Credit Fund II, which focuses on performing credit opportunities in the Asian Pacific, has closed

KKR raises more than USD 800m for its second Asian credit opportunities fund

Double digit returns tempt Middle Eastern investors to allocate to private credit
Investors in the Middle East are allocating billions to private credit. The trend is just getting started, with investments in the region expected to grow.

Australia’s $4tn retirement funds pour into private credit to capitalise on steady returns
Funds that make up one of the world’s largest pools of cash are allocating to private credit

Indian alternative asset manager seeking USD 240m for private credit fund
Indian alternative asset manager Vivriti Asset Management recently revealed plans to raise USD 240m (INR 20bn) for a new Indian private credit fund 

Pengana launches private credit platform aimed at retail investors
Sydney-headquartered money manager Pengana Capital Group has launched a new private credit platform

Indian manager raises nearly INR 25.75bn for credit opportunities fund
A Mumbai-based manager held a final close on its new special sits fund with INR 25.75bn raised

Australian money manager plans to launch AUD 1bn IG fund
An Australian alternative asset manager is planning to launch a new AUD 1bn investment grade debt fund, drawing on the country's pension system as a major source of fundraising

Funds round up: May 2024
The demand for SRT strategies and special situations funds are on the uptick, as is the demand for managers and funds outside of North America. 

Shorooq Partners closes USD 100m private credit fund
Shorooq Partners, an Abu Dhabi-based alternative investment manager, announced on 23 May the first close of its USD 100m second private credit fund

Singapore-based Kadita Partners closes private credit fund
Singapore-based private credit manager Kadita Partners has closed the Kadita Credit Solutions Fund 1

Funds round up: April 2024
Allocations to private credit and new fund launches continued to roll out in April, as our monthly round-up confirms

Australian private credit fund-of-funds launched for retail investors
Pengana Capital Group has launched a private credit fund for retail investors that will be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange

Funds round up: private credit reaches for retail
A number of new credit funds launched last month to round out 2024's first quarter, including ones in Europe aimed at retail investors

Funds round-up: Feb-2024 - managers turn to European wealth
European private credit managers turn to the wealthy in our roundup of notable fundraising in February 2024. 

Tikehau teams up with Singapore-based UOB-Kay Hian for Asian private credit fund
Paris-headquartered Tikehau Capital is the latest player to reveal plans to strengthen its footprint in the fast-growing Asian private credit market by way of a partnership with Singapore-based brokerage firm UOB-Kay Hian

Goldman Sachs and Mubadala strike USD 1bn private credit partnership
Goldman Sachs and Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company have struck a USD 1bn deal to co-invest in private credit opportunities throughout the APAC region