Blue Owl launches alternative credit fund for individual investors
The new product is structured as an interval fund and launched with USD 850m

Asset-based lending increasingly acts as private debt diversifier
Direct lender Bow River is the latest manager to acquire a lower middle market asset-based financing firm as investors seek to diversify existing private debt portfolios

Mid-market CLOs reduce premium over BSL spreads back to narrowest margin of 2025
ANALYSIS: Private credit CLO spreads are seeing rapid tightening, with the difference between BSL and mid-market triple A benchmarks having narrowed back to its tightest level seen this year

Blue Owl lowers private credit CLO spreads with USD 1bn new issue
Blue Owl has set new post-Liberation Day spread tights for mid-market issues with its latest print, a week after setting the previous low for triple As

Blue Owl prints tightest triple As in new middle-market CLO since Liberation Day
It’s the first middle market new issue of 2025 from the manager

Blue Owl raises USD 850m from wealth channel for asset-backed debt fund
Following the close of this private offering, the alternative credit manager will be able to offer this fund to a broader investor base in a typical interval fund format  

Blue Owl, Voya partner to bring private assets to US retirement accounts
The new private market products will be offered on Voya’s retirement platform, which oversees USD 630bn in defined contribution assets for more than 9m plan participants

Seven managers make up 90% of private credit fundraising – Morningstar
Over the last five years, Apollo alone accounted for 29% of all capital raised for private credit

Blue Owl reprices four-year-old US BSL CLO
The USD 328m partial refi was the manager's first BSL repricing of 2025

Blue Owl issues third Wise CLO of 2025
The capital stack for Wise CLO 2025-3 consisted entirely of A-letter-rated debt, with the triple As clearing at SOFR plus 135bps

Clearlake seals largest new direct lending deal for Dun & Bradstreet
Ares leads deal, taking USD 1.5bn; Morgan Stanley, Clearlake Capital Markets, Golub and Blue Owl also helped arrange the largest new unitranche ever

Kayne Anderson to debut private BDC to tap affluent investors
EXCLUSIVE: Private BDCs, pioneered by some of the largest direct lenders in the market, are becoming a common vehicle across the private credit manager industry

Private credit will grow to take as much as 50% of the leveraged finance market: Blue Owl’s Craig Packer
PODCAST: The co-president of Blue Owl joined Creditflux managing editor Lisa Lee on the latest edition of the Credit Exchange podcast

JPMorgan enters private credit big leagues with USD 4bn Boeing unit financing
EXCLUSIVE: The bank takes down the third-largest piece of the giant unitranche, lending shoulder-to-shoulder with direct-lending giants

Blue Owl prices new Wise CLO
The new-issue US BSL deal was the sixth in the manager’s ‘Wise’ series, and its second such print of the year

Blue Owl plans debut asset-backed fund for wealthy individuals
The direct lending firm filed for what would be its first interval fund with the SEC

Blue Owl prints another looks-like-a-middle-market-deal BSL CLO
Blue Owl has priced a US BSL CLO with a structure that closely resembles that of a middle-market deal via BofA

Blue Owl raises more than USD 2bn for evergreen direct lending strategy
Blue Owl has raised more than USD 2bn for its sophomore direct lending fund that focuses on senior, first-lien loans

Blue Owl delays fundraising launch of opportunistic credit fund
Blue Owl has put fundraising for its upcoming opportunistic credit fund on pause as it evaluates the market opportunity, according to sources familiar with the matter. 

Blue Owl resets 2022 middle-market CLO
Blue Owl Capital has reset its US private-credit backed Owl Rock CLO IX, adding a small equity infusion in the process

New short-dated middle-market CLO from Blue Owl prices at 135bps
Owl Rock CLO XX, priced its triple-A notes at SOFR plus 135bps, matching Cerberus’ short-dated MM print this week at a new benchmark tight

Wellfleet CLO gets a partial refi
The top four tranches of Wellfleet CLO X have been refinanced, reworking a US BSL CLO originally from 2019 that turned heads three years ago with a short dated reset

Blue Owl slashes spreads on 2022-vintage US CLO
A reset of Wellfleet CLO 2022-2 arranged by Citi has tightened overall funding costs by over 100 basis points

Blue Owl kicks off October with a two-for-one US CLO deals
Blue Owl has priced a new private credit CLO as well as refinanced a 2018-vintage BSL CLO 

Blue Owl moves to launch direct lending business in Europe
US-based asset manager Blue Owl is looking to launch a direct lending business in Europe and is interviewing deal-markers in the regions