Louisiana retire system commits $100 million to direct lending fund

The Louisiana Teachers’ Retirement System puts $100 million into direct lending fund. 

Kansas City Police Retirement System focuses on private credit
Ares has been hired by the organization to manage some of its private credit portfolio as it increases allocations to the strategy 

San Antonio Fire & Police deploys another $30 million to direct lender
The pension fund made its 10th allocation to a manager that focuses on venture debt investments to early-stage tech and life sciences companies

Ohio Police & Fire commits $50 million to private credit
Ohio Police & Fire pension system makes first private credit commitment for the year to a Barings fund

Ares scores $200 million for third senior direct lending fund
The Los Angeles-based alternative asset manager received a commitment from a Phoenix-based pension plan

New Mexico State Investment Council commits $150 million to infra debt fund
The New Mexico sovereign wealth fund approved a $150 million allocation to the Newmarket International Infrastructure Finance Company IV 

Ares second Pathfinder credit fund nears $5 billion target
Ares raised an additional $1.8 billion in 2Q23 for asset-backed fund

Houston Police Officers' Pension System commits nearly $38 million to credit fund
Houston Police Officers' Pension System approves nearly $38 million for credit fund

San Francisco retirement system sets aside $55 million for private credit
San Francisco Employees' Retirement System reserves hundreds of millions of dollars for alternative funds, including private credit

Kern County allocates $90 million for credit funds
Kern County commits up to $90 million to two private credit funds and a special opportunities fund 

Global investment firm closes fund with $3 billion in capital commitments

Global investment firm closes fund with $3 billion in capital commitments, focusing on opportunistic investing. 

Angelo Gordon raises more than $1 billion for credit fund
New York-based alternative investment firm closes asset-based credit fund with more than $1 billion. 

San Francisco Employees' Retirement System approves multi-million dollar private credit commitments
Retirement system approves several multi-million dollar private credit commitments. 

Major fund withdrawals undermine credit momentum
Credit funds are extending their run of inflows into the end of the year, but investment grade momentum took a dent last week due to investors in one big fund pulling their money

HIG adds capital raising clout with senior credit and PE hires
HIG Capital has added to its global credit and private equity businesses with three senior appointments

BlackRock launches impact bond fund
BlackRock has launched a fixed income fund focused on green, social, and sustainable bonds as well as ‘impact’ MBS and municipal investments

Franklin Templeton wraps up deal for $35bn Alcentra
Franklin Templeton has completed its acquisition of BNY Mellon’s $35 billion credit unit Alcentra

Investment manager launches to finance non-sponsored mid market
A new alternative manager launched Monday with a focus on debt and equity investments in non-sponsored, lower middle market businesses in North America

Sona rolls out event-driven and bespoke financing fund to US investors
Sona Asset Management is courting investors in the US for its second capital solutions strategy, having filed an offering of the fund with the Securities & Exchange Commission

Past form points to bleak picture for IG fund flows as new covid variant emerges: BofA
With a new covid-19 variant for investors to worry about, faltering high grade fund flows face additional headwinds versus high yield and government bonds

Tikehau places €500 million sustainable bond as it plans high yield impact fund
Tikehau Capital has placed an inaugural sustainable bond that it says is the first of its kind for an asset manager

Fed settles one third of small business loans in latest talf funding round
Of the $453.2 million small business loans requested in the 21 July subscription, only $152 million settled

Calpers plans $80 billion leverage play to boost returns
California Public Employees’ Retirement System has outlined plans to boost returns for its nearly $400 billion portfolio in the long term. But the proposal, dubbed ‘towards a 7% solution’, has come under criticism

Non-bank lenders spot fund financing opportunities
Volatility arising from the coronavirus will give non-bank lenders an opportunity to gain market share from traditional lenders in the fund financing space, sources say

Asset managers pull all liquidity levers to satisfy borrowers
A paramount concern for many investors in direct lending funds is whether asset managers have enough liquidity to meet borrower requests for funding