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

Experienced CLO banker joins Oaktree as managing director
A well-known name in the US CLO market has joined Oaktree as head of CLO capital markets 

Oaktree identifies CLOs among top picks in credit
Oaktree Capital Management’s head of performing credit Armen Panossian has outlined CLO tranches among his three favoured investments in this market

Oaktree prints new US CLO while Deerpath resets mid-market deal
The US CLO market has added to its June transaction tally, with Oaktree Capital pricing a new issue while Deerpath Capital Management reset a 2018 vintage mid-market deal

Oaktree seeks US-based head of CLO capital markets
Oaktree Capital Management is looking to hire a head of CLO, capital markets, with the US-based person working alongside Oaktree’s US senior loans and CLO strategy

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

Morgan Stanley prints new CLOs for Oaktree, Octagon and Voya
Morgan Stanley priced three new issue CLOs on Friday worth a combined $1.36 billion

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