Credit drives strong returns for five of the largest asset managers in the business
Carlyle is close to hitting its ambitious fundraising target; direct lending has been kind to Ares; and Och-Ziff has decided to shed its US CLO risk retention stakes after exiting its financing agreements

Star names join Barclays as it pushes into CLOs

Nuveen adds industry veteran Fleischhacker to private credit unit
TIAA subsidiary Nuveen has hired Jean Fleischhacker as a private credit asset class specialist within its alternative investments distribution team

Oaktree raises new special situations fund while CIO warns of direct lending risk
Oaktree Capital Management has released its second quarter 2018 results in which the Los Angeles-based firm reported $2.4 billion of new capital commitments in the quarter

Apollo's MidCap unit takes CLO AUM beyond $2.5 billion
MidCap Financial has taken its CLO AUM beyond $2.5 billion just 17 months after pricing its debut CLO in February 2017

Sovereign investors' allocation to alternative credit increase rapidly, finds survey
Sovereign investors are increasing their exposure to CLOs, direct lending and bank loans, according to a 2018 Global Sovereign Asset Management Study published by Invesco this week

Mid market CLOs - the expanding middle
The small band of middle market CLO managers employ a growing range of strategies - from direct lending-style origination, to dabbling in broadly syndicated loans - as they build out deals. Our analysis of mid market CLOs reveals that managers have distinguished themselves with the overlap between mid market US CLO portfolios being approximately 5%

Mid market CLO league tables: Ivy Hill closes in on Golub
Mid market CLO volumes this year have reached $9.4 billion - $1.04 billion more than the first half of 2017

BDCs turn to CLO financing as effective alternative to bilateral leverage agreements
Business development companies now have the ability to take on an extra turn of leverage, but rating constraints mean they could end up using CLOs instead

Neuberger's Dyal acquires minority stake in HPS
Dyal Partners, a division of Neuberger Berman, has acquired a minority equity stake in global credit manager HPS Investment Partners

The expanding middle
Our analysis of mid market CLOs reveals that managers have distinguished themselves with the overlap between mid market US CLO portfolios being approximately 5%

Credit interval funds thrive as investors value liquidity profile
“The interval fund structure’s time has come," says BlueBay's Blair Reid

Experienced CSAM holds off boutiques to win biggest prize
Credit Suisse Asset Management became a two-time winner of the Creditflux Manager of the Year award last month after picking up the 2018 trophy in front of a packed house at London’s Landmark Hotel on 9 May

Carlyle and Oppenheimer opt for interval fund structure as part of JV
The new private credit fund will invest at least 80% across loans and structured credit (Including CLOs), opportunistic credit, direct lending and liquid credit, SEC filings reveal

Mid-market CLO league tables: volumes hit $6.7 billion in 2018
$6.7 billion of middle market CLO paper has priced so far in 2018, a 30.8% increased from the same period in 2017

GoldenTree, KKR and StepStone earn sub-advisor roles for new interval fund
FS Investments is launching a multi-strategy interval fund and has chosen GoldenTree Asset Management, KKR Credit and StepStone Group to act as sub-advisors

Antares promotes loan specialist Lyne and ex-JP Morgan CLO chief Mathew
Private credit giant Antares Capital has announced that founding partner Timothy Lyne has been appointed senior managing director and co-head of sponsor coverage while Vivek Mathew has been promoted to head asset management and funding

BlackRock expands US private debt capabilities with TCP acquisition
BlackRock has agreed to acquire $9 billion asset manager Tennenbaum Capital Partners

CLO and direct lending specialist hires former GAM director
A Boston-based alternative credit manager has named Christopher Todisco as a new director on the business development team in New York

Freshfields CLO lawyer hired by rival firm in New York
Ryan Suda, who has joined Mayer Brown as a partner, advises financial institutions, asset managers, private equity funds and hedge funds in structured finance transactions and other complex financings

Ivy Hill prices first billion-dollar mid market CLO of 2018
The Los Angeles-based firm issued its first new middle-market CLO in almost 12 months on Friday

Mid market CLO round-up: Antares leads the way as triple As price at 125bp
Although US mid-market CLOs had a slow start to the year, the last two weeks have seen heightened activity in this sector with established players such as Antares Capital, Cerberus Capital Management, Fortress Investments and Midcap Financial pricing new CLOs

Structured credit specialists seek future-proofing in direct lending
At the turn of the last credit cycle, structured credit recovered spectacularly – but credit managers today seem to be gravitating towards private credit as the area to pick up excess returns in a downturn

They said it: BSL loans and mid-market loans are basically the same thing
A US CLO portfolio manager is heard putting himself forward for a direct lending fund management role..