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

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

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

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

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    

TCW launches 'first' ESG-labelled structured credit fund in the US
TCW has launched what it claims to be the first dedicated structured credit fund with an ESG-label in the US

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

LibreMax collects $225 million for structured credit fund
LibreMax Capital has closed its fifth drawdown vehicle, LibreMax Structured Opportunities Partners I, at $225 million

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

Credit Fundraising: Blue Owl and WhiteHorse gain from improving animal spirits
Fundraising perked up in July as managers raised $14.9 billion for credit funds - the third highest monthly amount this year

King Street raises $1.2 billion for first global credit drawdown fund
The fund will target distressed and stressed corporate debt, structured products, and asset-backed investments, as well as claims and claim-related opportunities

CarVal exceeds target with $3.6 billion distressed credit fund
CarVal will invest in distressed credit including acquiring loan portfolios, investing in corporate securities, structured credit and hard assets

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

Schroders and Oaktree launch global credit ucits fund
Schroders has partnered with Oaktree Capital Management to launch a global multi-strategy credit fund, Schroder GAIA Oaktree Credit fund, which will sit within Schroders' alternatives ucits platform

Shenkman closes debut drawdown fund at $325 million
Shenkman Capital Management has closed its inaugural drawdown fund with over $325 million capital commitments

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

Lord Abbett prepares special situations interval fund
Lord Abbett is preparing to launch a new special situations fund in the form of an interval fund

Credit fundraising: Goldman Sachs direct lending fund takes March figures to $23 bn
Credit funds sprung forward in March as $23 billion was raised alongside $2.6 billion worth of allocations to credit managers. 

LP round-up: $2.6 billion flows into 26 credit managers
A stuck ship in the Suez Canal may have prevented others from getting through one of the world's busiest waterways in March, but allocations to credit funds were much more free flowing as investors poured over $2.6 billion into the hands of credit managers

DE Shaw amasses $1 billion for stressed and distressed assets
The fund will invest in stressed and distressed assets, financings, and special situations opportunities

Four managers win lucrative $700 million credit mandate
A $39 billion pension has selected four managers for an opportunistic credit mandate and identified a further four ‘bench’ managers 

Credit funds at a glance (March 2021)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves