Credit funds at a glance (December 2023)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

LP round up: 27 managers find the top corner with investor wins
Credit fund managers like to take it one fund at a time and give it 110% for their 90-minute investor fund pitches - and it's working as $3.8 billion was allocated during November and early December. The gaffer would be proud. 

San Bernardino pension commits $50 million to CLO fund as part of multi-credit strategic partnership
San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association allocated $50 million to a CLO equity fund, as part of a roughly $240 million multi-credit strategic partnership with the manager

US manager becomes latest to register triple A CLO ETF
The manager joins the likes of BlackRock, PineBridge and VanEck, Janus Henderson and AXS to use exchange traded funds to invest in CLO tranches

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

Angel Oak launches inaugural structured credit ETF
Angel Oak Capital Advisors has launched its first exchange traded fund, Angel Oak UltraShort Income Fund ETF

Fidelity Investments eyes CLOs as part of multi-strategy credit fund
Fidelity Investments is preparing to launch a new multi-strategy credit fund, which will “opportunistically rotate across the entire credit spectrum”

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

   

LP round up: $2.7bn flows to 20 credit managers as investors battle PE overallocation
Investors faced huge headwinds in September with inflation, rising interest rates, and geopolitical turmoil, alongside the UK gilts sell-off at month end

Nomura readies multi-strat credit interval fund launch
Nomura Private Capital is readying the launch of a new, closed-ended interval fund which will invest across the credit spectrum - including bonds, loans, CLOs, distressed debt emerging market debt

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

Calamos and Aksia eye CLOs as part of new multi-credit interval fund
Calamos Advisors and Aksia have teamed up to launch a closed-ended interval fund that can invest across several areas of credit

John Hancock and Marathon join forces on ABL fund with structured credit bucket
John Hancock Investment Management has teamed up with Marathon Asset Management for an asset-based lending fund, which can invest a portion of capital in liquid structured credit such as CLOs

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

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.

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...

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

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%

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

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

StepStone sets out new path with Mexican securitisation
StepStone Group says its securitisation of private credit opportunities for Mexican investors has left a template for other managers to follow.

Debut CLO manager Barrow Hanley closes captive fund with 'at least three' deals earmarked this year
Barrow Hanley has closed its inaugural CLO equity fund, Barrow Hanley CLO Fund I, with the vehicle aimed at providing equity in ‘at least three’ Barrow Hanley CLOs this year

LP round up: Fidelity wins big, Pacific retains loan mandate, pensions eye distressed
The month also included one CLO fund commitment, one high yield manager search, one finalised US loans mandate and one $400 million multi-sector fixed income managed account mandate

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

US CLO fund wins $16 million from San Jose pension
The $5 billion pension awarded the allocation to a manager's fourth US CLO fund, having previously allocated to its second and third fund