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

   

Waterfall pair earn promotion to partner
Waterfall Asset Management says it has appointed a residential loan specialist and a structured credit investor to partner 

LP round up: private credit takes big slice of inflows as 10% portfolio share projected for 2026
Institutional investors revealed nearly $4 billion allocations to credit funds in July, with recipients including Angelo Gordon, Apollo, Ares, BlackRock, Brookfield, CarVal, Comvest, Deerpath, KKR, Schroders and Sixth Street

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

Balbec collects $1.5 billion for fifth mortgage and consumer loan fund
Balbec will invest through a new fund across residential, commercial, and consumer whole loan portfolios and across the performance spectrum including “assets subject to bankruptcy or other structured repayment plans"

Fund managers join forces on US asset-based lending platform
Castlelake has teamed up with Aequum Capital Founder to launch an asset-based lending platform, which will lend in ticket sizes of $1-10 million

BlackRock closes £1.7 billion private debt fund with wide mandate for UK pensions
The firm has deployed around 60% of the fund, which invests across US and European direct lending, US and European real estate debt and the firm’s global opportunistic strategy

Taconic adds CMBS specialist to team in New York
Taconic Capital has boosted its CMBS business with an experienced hire

Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions

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

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

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

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

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

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