Credit hedge funds – September 2026
Credit hedge fund performance

Silver Point taps former Golub head of structured products for new role
Alan George joins Silver Point Capital in the newly-created position of head of credit finance and leverage solutions

CVC hires TPG's Sisitsky as future co-CEO as Rob Lucas plans to step back
CVC’s CEO Rob Lucas will step back from his role, to be replaced with former TPG president Todd Sisitsky and current CVC President Peter Rutland as co-CEOs, according to a company announcement

New Mountain refinances rated feeder
Wells Fargo arranged the repricing of Guardian IV Rated Feeder I, in a deal valued at just over USD 178m

Up and at ’em, even in August
What August slowdown? Even as the summer sun beats down, credit market participants have been busy dealing with a pickup in volatility. The main culprit? Artificial intelligence. Questions are flaring about its near-term profitability amid a mind-boggling capex arms race. So this month, we feature a dive into data centre financing, where credit spreads are widening but issuers are still borrowing

Fund performance – August 2026
Most categories average flat returns in middling June

Silver Point enrolls in Learning Care ahead of crucial school year
Silver Point CLO and BDCs active buyers of Learning Care's 2028 term loan; funds managed by Ares, Carlyle sell or reduce positions in term loan

July 2026 US Leveraged Highlights
After a first half defined by record M&A activity, abundant liquidity and relentless refinancing demand, July marked a clear moderation in US leveraged finance, while the resilience of CLO activity was particularly noteworthy given the sharp reduction in institutional loan supply

Marc Rowan predicts more to come on Apollo's CLO variant AMAPS
Apollo CEO Marc Rowan says that there is more to come with AMAPS, as he predicts that the industry will start moving more towards public markets

The broad software selloff has largely ended as market differentiates – Elmwood
EXCLUSIVE: The broad software selloff has largely come to an end, according to Megan Saltzman, portfolio manager at Elmwood Asset Management

Fund performance – July 2026
Smaller gains in May moderate strong April performance

Sante Cie loan rebounds following call to reassure lenders
EUR 820m TLB offered around 80 cents; Gibson Dunn holds call with lender group

The Quality Group pre-markets in quieter primary as buyside battles repricings, Sante Cie loan plunges - Europe Loan Digest
Strong technical pushes prints in new lows; CLOs struggling with arbitrage hold floor for single-Bs; Sante Cie dives in secondary on asset freeze news

Repricing wave brings back pain for CLO arbitrage – Europe Loan Digest
Ineos offers premium talk compared to market; performing credits shave up to 50bps off existing debt

US levfin community raises USD 4.3m in annual melanoma research fundraiser
The networking evening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City brought together members of the leveraged finance community across banks, private credit firms, law firms, LPs, private equity shops and more

Connecting women in credit
This year’s Creditflux Women in CLOs networking event was held in midtown New York. It was attended by more than 100 structured credit investors, managers, arrangers and lawyers

Fund performance – June 2026
Emerging markets hit top spot and CLO funds rebound after blip

First Eagle taps AlbaCore alum for alternative credit product sales
Edward Berry joins as a managing director in London and will help distribute the firm’s alternative credit products, including those under the Napier Park brand

European credit spreads remain resilient — BlackRock
Healthy fundamentals and low default risk means that European credit spreads are showing resilience, at least for now, according to BlackRock’s latest fixed-income outlook

Golub shakes up leadership with co-CEOs, co-Presidents appointments
The alternative credit manager will have three co-presidents after promoting Spyro Alexopoulos and hiring two new executives

Fund performance – May 2026
Volatility hurts as most funds record negative returns

Abry Private Debt acquires USD 330m private credit portfolio
Abry partnered with Coller Capital on the credit secondaries transaction

Bank loan growth driven by lending to private credit and other funds—S&P
Total loan growth in the US banking system was driven by lending to nonbank financial institutions like investment funds from 2024 to 2025, the ratings agency found

Lipton raises EUR 50m equity and EUR 160m secured loan from CVC

BDC outlook turns negative as inflows, yields decline—Moody’s
Perpetual nontraded BDCs experiencing redemption pressure may see market volatility temporarily hurt net asset value, Heron Finance Chief Credit Officer Khang Nguyen told Creditflux