Oaktree buys majority stake in 17Capital
Oaktree Capital Management has bought a majority stake in net-asset-value financing specialist 17 Capital

LP round up: Fidelity wins big, Pacific retains loan mandate, pensions eye distressed
The month also included one CLO fund commitment, one high yield manager search, one finalised US loans mandate and one $400 million multi-sector fixed income managed account mandate

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

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

CLOs at a glance (January 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Credit Fundraising: mega funds contribute to record-breaking month as volume hits $39bn
The sheer size of the funds raised in November more than compensated for a drop in the number of funds raised as fundraising volume in credit reached $38.9 billion. This beat September by $2.4 billion to make it the most productive month of credit fundraising in 2021

Oaktree prices second consecutive US CLO via Morgan Stanley
Oaktree Capital Management teamed up with Morgan Stanley on Monday to print a $406.4 million new CLO named Oaktree CLO 2021-2

Oaktree raises largest ever fund with $15.9 billion for "opportunistic credit" strategy
Oaktree Capital Management has closed its largest ever fund, collecting a whopping $15.9 billion on its latest opportunistic credit strategy, Oaktree Opportunities Fund XI

Brookfield hires industry veteran as public securities CIO
Brookfield Asset Management has hired a long-serving credit and equity market professional as chief investment officer for its public securities group

Invesco, Napier Park and Oaktree refinance 2019 CLOs
Three CLO managers - Invesco, Oaktree Capital Management and Napier Park Global - have each refinanced a 2019 CLO, with the three deals totalling over $1.5 billion

Oaktree prunes another 2019 CLO with refi
Oaktree Capital Management has refinanced a 2019 CLO, which has about two and-a-half years to run on its reinvestment period.

BlackRock and Oaktree reset and upsize legacy CLOs
BlackRock and Oaktree Capital Management have reset legacy CLO deals with both managers opting for an upsize

Credit Fundraising: Blue Owl and WhiteHorse gain from improving animal spirits
Fundraising perked up in July as managers raised $14.9 billion for credit funds - the third highest monthly amount this year

Credit funds at a glance (August 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

Credit fundraising: Audax scores big in lighter month
Fundraising markedly dropped in May, but credit funds still amassed $12.8 billion and 10 credit funds reached final closes across a variety of different strategies

Two west coast managers bring first new CLOs of 2021 via Morgan Stanley
Two California-based CLO issued their first new CLOs of the year on Thursday with Morgan Stanley arranging both transactions

Post-covid CLO reset market heats up as Jocassee, PGIM and Oaktree price
The post-covid CLO reset spree is well underway as three managers - Jocassee Partners, PGIM and Oaktree Capital Capital Management - reworked deals that originally issued in April or May 2020

Global CLO trading lab: secondary volumes inflate and easily get absorbed
Weekly secondary CLO volume has been lower across the capital structure in recent weeks as 2021’s refinancing wave left investors with plenty of choice

CLO refi wave continues as CIFC and Oaktree join the fun
CIFC Asset Management and Oaktree Capital Management have become the latest managers to join the CLO refinancing craze, each teaming up with Morgan Stanley to cut the funding costs on 2019-vintage deals

All’s well that ends well in 2020 OC tests
Swathes of CLOs failed over-collateralisation tests last year, but unlike the drawn-out recovery following the 2008 financial crisis, the return to compliance after the covid-19 crash was rapid 

LP round up: pensions plan private credit pacing as strategic credit takes on "midfield" role
US pensions have allocated $1.4 billion across 22 credit funds including those managed by Angelo Gordon, Ares and GoldenTree, according to recent board documents seen by Creditflux. Meanwhile a pension fund draws parallels between strategic credit and Jordan Henderson

LP round up: Arcmont, Ares and Sixth Street win European direct lending mandates
Investors have allocated around $2 billion to credit funds in recent weeks, according to board documentation seen by Creditflux. Among those to recieve allocations include ADM, Arcmont, Ares, Audax, Bain, Centerbridge, Clearlake, Goldman Sachs merchant banking,  Invesco, Monarch, Oaktree, Raven, Sixth Street and Sound Mark

Global CLO b-wic round-up: Junior tranches rally amid heavy supply, including portfolio liquidation
The US CLO secondary market rally is showing no signs of slowing down after a week of over $1 billion worth of bonds was listed and well absorbed, according to market sources. The European market also had a roust week with over €300 million of paper up for grabs, although the market stayed generally flat with some tightening in double and single Bs

Trimark loan deal splits lenders and sparks complaint in NY Supreme Court: Debtwire
A new super-priority loan issued by Trimark has caused a rift between the company’s lenders and led to a complaint being filed in the New York Supreme Court.