Infra specialist makes first SRT investment
An affiliate of Nuveen says it has invested in an SRT for the first time

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

   

AnaCap's credit team spins out to form Veld
Veld, Veld, Veld. If it isn't AnaCap's former credit business

Glennmont raises €250m for renewable energy credit fund
Glennmont Partners has raised €250 million for a fund that will invest in renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure

Axa IM reorganises alternatives unit into five streams amid AUM growth
Axa Investment Managers has reorganised its ‘alternatives’ business into five streams and made four promotions

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

HSBC and Mount Street sign servicing agreement with Aviva for real asset business
HSBC and Mount Street Group have signed a 10-year asset servicing agreement with Aviva Investors for its £50 billion (€59.07 billion) real asset business

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

ECB wizards seek ‘anti-fragmentation’ spell to calm spreads
Eurozone financial market performance this month will heavily focus on the European Central Bank’s unveiling of an ‘anti-fragmentation tool’ as it races to avert a blow-out of peripheral spreads and the build-up of longer-term financing problems

Citi structured credit specialist leaves after 15 years
A key figure in Citi’s European structured credit business since 2007 has joined Julius Baer as head of corporate finance advisory

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