ArrowMark targets $300 million for commercial real estate
ArrowMark Partners is targeting $300 million for a structured finance real estate fund

Bain collects $2 billion for second Asian special situations fund
Bain Capital has collected more than $2 billion for its second special situations fund, Bain Capital Special Situations Asia Fund II. The vehicle had an initial $1.5 billion target

Credit investors look to outsource as risks begin to add up
Institutional investors and managers are outsourcing to third parties as credit and macro­economic risks mount

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

Nuveen targets €500 million for inaugural pan-European real estate debt fund
Nuveen has made a first close on its fourth commercial real estate debt fund, expanding its geographical focus for the latest series from a UK-focused only to a pan-European strategy

La Banque Postale launches first infra debt fund "of its kind" with Article 9 offering
La Banque Postale Asset Management has raised €270 million as part of the first close of  LBPAM Infrastructure Debt Climate Impact Fund, which is an Article 9-aligned fund under the Sustainable Finance Development Regulations

Kayne Anderson closes $1.87 billion real estate debt fund
Kayne Anderson has closed a fourth real estate debt fund at $1.875 billion, surpassing its intitial $1.5 billion target 

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

Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns

CRE CLO episode shines light on CLO get-out clauses
Market disruption clauses are rare in CLO warehouse agreements, but litigation surrounding a cancelled 2020 CRE CLO underlines how these can give CLO issuers added flexibility in a doomsday scenario

Ex-Accunia CLO specialist lands at Danish firm to build structured finance platform
An ex-Accunia chief investment officer and CLO specialist has landed at Danish commercial real estate firm CBRE

Court orders Bancorp to repay Waterfall's deposit from cancelled CRE CLO
An affiliate of Waterfall Asset Management has won its dispute with Bancorp Bank over a proposed CRE CLO transaction that was terminated in early 2020 owing to “market disruption”  

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

LP round up: Oak Hill wins $3bn mandate as credit allocations near $10bn in March
Institutional investors revealed over $9.5 billion of allocations to credit funds in March. Oak Hill Advisors walked away with the largest mandate, as US heavyweight pension Calpers allocated a whopping $3 billion across several of its funds

Pretium collects $1.7 billion for second residential mortgage credit fund
Pretium has closed second residential credit fund at $1.7 billion

Former Goldman Sachs flow credit trading head lands at Daemon
Brazilian investment management firm Daemon has expanded its US arm by appointing two managing partners, one of which is the former head of credit flow trading at Goldman Sachs

Ardian expands into real estate debt
Ardian says it has created a European real estate debt business, assigning Arnaud Chaléac with oversight of this unit in Paris

Constellation buys into real estate and mid-market corporate specialist
Constellation Capital has bought a passive, minority equity stake in Post Road Group, according to a joint-announcement. The transaction comes shortly after Post Road raised over $300 million for Post Road Special Opportunity Fund II

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

CarVal funds establish mortgage conduit
Carval Investors has, through its funds, established a mortgage conduit known as Mill City Loans

Infrastructure manager targets €1 billion for eclectic mix of project finance debt and SRTs
A Copenhagen-based firm is launching its first credit fund and has partnered with an SRT specialist in London for a component of its potential €1 billion offering  

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

Oaktree closes $3 billion real estate debt fund with 55% deployment
Oaktree Capital Management held a roughly $3 billion final close on its third global real estate debt strategy, Real Estate Debt Fund III