Local California pensions disclose recent direct lending, distressed credit investments
Los Angeles pensions allocate funds to Audax, Monarch, Macquarie; San Francisco, Alameda County commit to special situations funds, while Sacramento County pension commits USD 100m to GoldenTree

Audax ties Churchill in 1H26 US direct-lender rankings as deal sizes increase – 1H26 US Direct Lender Rankings
US direct lending volume was broadly stable in the first half of 2026, reaching USD 155.6bn across 1,645 deals, compared with USD 154.2bn across 1,716 transactions in 1H25, according to Debtwire's 1H26 US Direct Lender Rankings report

Golub resets 2020-vintage private credit CLO for second time
CIBC was the arranger for the USD 496m reworking of Golub Capital Partners CLO 47(M)-R2, which renewed the deal on a 2Y/5Y timetable

CVC hires TPG's Sisitsky as future co-CEO as Rob Lucas plans to step back
CVC’s CEO Rob Lucas will step back from his role, to be replaced with former TPG president Todd Sisitsky and current CVC President Peter Rutland as co-CEOs, according to a company announcement

North Carolina, CalPERS disclose billions in recent debt SMA allocations
NCIA commits USD 3.3bn to private credit across three managers; CalPERS discloses USD 2.3bn in 1Q26, including Blue Owl investment

Oak Hill Advisors’ CIO says private credit shops could end up owning more companies than in the past
PODCAST: The impacts of ongoing AI dislocation and over-levered deals mean private credit managers could end up owning more companies than they have traditionally done, predicts Alan Schrager on the latest episode of Credit Exchange with Lisa Lee

Blackstone’s BCRED sees redemption requests level out in Q3
But while the latest quarter's results put a stop to recent quarter-over-quarter increases in the amount of investors seeking an exit from the product, exit requests for the perpetual nontraded BDC still exceeded the 5% of outstanding shares that the alts manager was willing to repurchase

BlackRock’s listed BDC taps successor as CEO Phil Tseng exits
Tseng’s resignation comes as BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. has seen its share price tumble and battle underperforming credits in its portfolio

Antares prints upsized USD 850m private credit CLO
Antares CLO 2026-4 priced on Thursday through Scotiabank, with its triple As clearing at SOFR plus 145bps

Ares co-head of US direct lending says there is real dispersion for the first time in years
PODCAST: Speaking with Lisa Lee on the latest episode of Credit Exchange, Kort Schnabel notes that dispersion among direct lenders is manifesting in a few different ways

Crescent pulls in capital-charge-sensitive insurers for CLO equity fund
Managing director and head of tradeable credit John Fekete told Creditflux that the cash-on-cash distributions of CLO equity look particularly attractive as private equity struggles with returning distributions to investors

Smaller, midsize insurers follow the trend into private credit, as managers find solutions to regulatory hurdles
Asset managers saw private fixed income investment from insurance clients jump 141% from 2021 to 2025, more than any other asset category, according to a report from Clearwater Analytics

Crescent CEO says US Treasuries are spiking due to rising risk of persistent inflation
PODCAST: Markets are recognising the risks around longer-term inflation, and paying greater attention to the ballooning deficits of governments around the world, says Chris Wright, CEO and president of Crescent Capital Group, on the latest episode of Credit Exchange with Lisa Lee

CVC launches debut private credit secondaries fund with USD 500m target
The new strategy broadens CVC’s existing secondaries platform, which has largely focused on private equity secondaries until now

Spate of new private credit CLOs issue from PennantPark, Cerberus and Jefferies Credit Partners
PennantPark CLO 13 issued on Tuesday through Scotiabank on a short-dated timetable, while Cerberus Loan Funding 54 and Jefferies Credit Partners Direct Lending CLO 2026-1 were both structured as conventional-duration 2Y/4Y deals

Banks, managers add staff for private credit syndication
Banks see private credit syndication as a way to reclaim fees as more borrowers tap both private credit and broadly syndicated loan markets, Mission Staffing managing director Eric Vaheb told Creditflux

North American private credit fundraising tumbles, ceding ground to global strategies—S&P Global
While fundraising boomed for European and multi-region private credit strategies, private credit focused on North America dropped 13% year-over-year

Eagle Point leads USD 1.3bn HoldCo loan for data center deal tied to Anthropic
The CLO specialist used its growing infrastructure credit team to provide the loan, which makes up a portion of a USD 16bn data center financing deal in Texas

Kohlberg returns to market with third private credit CLO, second of 2026
Mid-market specialist Kohlberg & Co. has priced its second new CLO of the year, with Scotiabank serving as arranger on the USD 448m issue

Capital One building a team in private-fund secondaries, private-capital raising
The Tysons, Virginia-based bank is looking for a managing director to lead the new Capital Solutions team

Foreign currency movements erase credit net returns at CPP Investments
Net returns across private and public credit fell to 3.7% in fiscal 2026 from 14.4% in 2025, the Canadian institutional investor reported

US direct lending deal volume falls off in 2Q, even as lenders become more open to AI risk—Configure
Sponsor-backed direct lending deal volume tumbled to less than half of what was recorded for the first quarter

KKR becomes latest big-name manager to price static private credit CLO in 2026
KKR has issued the first new CLO under its Lending Partners shelf in half a decade, with the USD 624m private credit deal issuing as a non-reinvesting transaction through BNP Paribas

Churchill taps King Street’s former head of capital solutions to lead new strategy
The Nuveen Private Capital subsidiary is launching its own capital solutions strategy that will provide senior and junior private debt to companies seeking customized financing

US private credit CLO rankings – July 2026
Golub claimed a 10% share of US private credit CLO issuance to the end of July, according to Creditflux's latest league table rankings – but Blackstone isn't far behind. It's even closer among arrangers, with Scotiabank just a hair ahead of BNP Paribas at the top of the rankings