GSO to rebrand as Blackstone Credit
GSO Capital Partners, the credit management arm of the Blackstone Group, is set to rebrand itself as Blackstone Credit

LP round up: $2.8 billion flows to credit as Apollo concedes fundraising may slow
Florida Retirement System Trust Fund made the largest commitments allocating $1.6 billion. Apollo meanwhile acknowledged a potential slowdown in fundraising as investors await results on an independent review into CEO Leon Black's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

High yield outperformance to bring compression trade back into play: Citi
High yield underperformance versus investment grade is expected to reverse following the US presidential election, according to a strategy note from Citi. The bank’s strategists have been advocating compression trades since July and feel that there is more room for this to run citing election trends, exposure to coronavirus credits, expected default rates and credit ratings

GSO co-founder Bennett launches minority GP-stake business
GSO Capital Partners co-founder Bennett Goodman (the “G” in GSO) has teamed with Mike Arpey, Avshalom Kalichstein and Rex Chung to launch a new GP stakes investing business

Credit fundraising: Dubai manager gets in on the act as direct lending takes off
Shuaa launches credit fund in the Gulf as Ares, Contingency, HPS and Perceptive are among those to close billion-plus funds

NXT CEO to retire next year
The chairman and chief executive officer of NXT Capital, Robert Radway, is retiring late next year

Greystone reaches $1 billion for real estate debt fund after re-opening fundraising
Greystone has collected a further $250 million from investors for its inaugural real estate debt fund, Greystone Senior Debt Opportunity Fund (B) after the firm decided to re-open fundraising

BlackRock co-head of direct lending set to depart
The co-head of direct lending at BlackRock and Tennenbaum Capital Partner’s special situations unit is set to leave the firm by the end of the year

Loomis Sayles promotes deputy CIO to top job
Loomis Sayles has named a replacement chief investment officer, following the retirement of incumbent CIO Jae Park

New York fund manager hires former Ellington CSO specialist
A credit fund manager has hired a structured credit specialist to cover corporate credit and structured credit products such as CLOs and CSOs

Perceptive holds $1.1 billion final close on healthcare direct lending fund
Perceptive Advisors has held a $1.1 billion final close on its its third healthcare-focused direct lending fund, Perceptive Credit Opportunities Fund III

Värde names deputy CEO and several promotions
The transitional appointments follow George Hicks, co-founder and co-CEO, saying in July last year he would move to an executive chair role by the end of 2021

SVP collects $1.65 billion for dislocation fund in four months
Strategic Value Partners has closed fundraising for its Strategic Value Dislocation Fund with around $1.65 billion in commitments

Brigade appoints ex-Schroders official as CEO
Brigade Capital Management has appointed a former Schroders co-head of fixed income as CEO 

Evolution lifts AUM to $1.8 billion after launching direct lending strategy
Evolution Credit Partners Management has finalised fundraising for a private debt fund. It has held a $565 million final close on its inaugural middle-market direct lending fund

US investors piled into structured credit and private lending in 2019, Gapstow finds
US institutional investors' allocations to 'alternative credit' increased 12% year-over-year in 2019, according to research by fund of funds manager Gapstow Capital Partners

Brevan Howard raids ExodusPoint for credit derivative specialists
Brevan Howard has hired credit derivative specialists from ExodusPoint Capital Management with a view to expanding in credit options

Wriedt buys minority stake in direct lender Scio and joins as strategic advisor
Oliver Wriedt, the former chief executive officer at DFG Investment Advisers, has bought a minority stake in European credit asset manager Scio Capital

Post hires head of sales and marketing in Los Angeles
Post Advisory Group has hired Eileen Mancera as managing director and head of sales and marketing

Palm Lane launches credit relative value fund with $200 million after PM hires
Palm Lane Capital has raised about $200 million for a global credit relative value hedge fund, which went live on 1 September

Perceptive nears $1 billion hard cap for healthcare credit fund
Perceptive Advisors is nearing its $1 billion hard cap for its third healthcare-focused direct lending fund, Perceptive Credit Opportunities Fund III

Credit event auctions mount as European resistance breaks
Two constituent defaults in iTraxx Crossover — the first to hit the European on-the-run index in almost two years — have made 2020 the second busiest year ever for credit event auctions

Hema and Matalan auctions set as DC ponders Ensco credit event
Dates have been set for credit event auctions to settle two constituent defaults in iTraxx Crossover — the first to hit the European on-the-run index in almost two years

Investors should invest in private debt throughout 2020, says bfinance
Private debt has so far proved able to maintain stable valuations and pay coupons in 2020 so investors should keep faith through the year, according to investment consultant bfinance

LP round up: Connecticut eyes Fortress for private credit partnership
Investors placed $3.3 billion across 26 credit mandates over the past fortnight, according to documents seen by Creditflux