Virginia, Arkansas among systems expanding into alternative credit strategies
Recent Ares funds gain momentum with allocations from VRS, TCDRS; Arkansas Teachers plan multi-strategy credit SMAs with KKR, Brookfield

Carlyle prices market’s first private credit CLO in two weeks
Carlyle Direct Lending CLO 2026-1 priced its senior triple A paper at SOFR plus 165bps, reflecting widening in the market since the beginning of the month

Cash-poor LPs find side door to Carlyle’s new buyout fund
The alternative asset manager is offering select institutional investors an alternative to committing new cash to its upcoming private equity fund

Carlyle, Sixth Street BDCs find yield boost in CLOs
ANALYSIS: The two firms recently struck a joint venture that will buy up broadly syndicated loans and issue CLOs managed by the two teams

Carlyle prices its first new CLO for 2026
The USD 505m Carlyle CLO 2026-1 priced its senior triple A notes at SOFR plus 116bps

AI’s improvements to workflow will be felt in months, not years – Carlyle co-president Mark Jenkins
PODCAST: Speaking on the latest episode of Credit Exchange with Lisa Lee, Jenkins predicts the next stage will involve how corporates implement AI tools into their workflows, and that the process is “really in the first innings of implementation”

Carlyle AlpInvest backs USD 1.5bn Eldridge credit fund
Eldridge used a secondaries transaction to help establish its first private credit fund

‘In 2026 we will see data-centre term loans’
2026 outlook with Lauren Basmadjian, global head of liquid credit at Carlyle

Carlyle, Barings market new European CLOs
The two managers are marketing new European CLOs with similar sizings and spreads – but Carlyle’s deal is set to print as a standard-duration five-year CLO, while Barings is offering a short-duration three-year reinvestment period

Carlyle AlpInvest backs Investec’s debut European senior direct lending fund
AlpInvest led a secondaries transaction that helped launch the EUR 400m fund

Carlyle and Fidelity issue comparably structured new US CLOs
The comparably sized Carlyle US CLO 2025-7 and Ballyrock CLO 32 featured similar spreads through their capital structures

Latest Carlyle CLO issues AAAs at SOFR plus 122bps
The manager's newest US CLO priced on Tuesday as a USD 509m print via Deutsche Bank

Carlyle anticipates 4Q25 exit uptick from USD 4bn realization pipeline
Medline IPO not expected in 4Q25; More than USD 1bn raised from UBS private wealth partnership

Carlyle resets decade-old Euro CLO
The manager teamed with Morgan Stanley to reprice CGMSE 2015-1, in a deal that included a EUR 195m re-sizing of the debt stack and an equity injection of almost EUR 117m

US resets flow as Oak Hill Advisors sets new AA benchmark
Around USD 1.38bn of resets priced this week from Oak Hill Advisors, Carlyle, UBS and Intermediate Capital Group, with OHA's print setting a new benchmark in the double As of SOFR plus 150bps

Former Claren Road execs launch new private credit business
EXCLUSIVE: The new firm, Claren Road Private Credit Solutions, has already started managing assets for SMA clients

Carlyle’s US CLO PM leaves for Elmwood
New York-based portfolio manager Megan Saltzman has moved to Elmwood from her previous role as MD in Carlyle's structured credit group

Carlyle nabs head of direct lending origination from Golub
EXCLUSIVE: The firm also hired a second managing director focused on originations as it re-staffs its direct lending franchise

Palmer Square and Carlyle print latest resets
Palmer Square and Caryle priced US BSL resets to round out last week, with the deals together totalling just under USD 860m

Mid-market flurry continues as three private credit deals price
Private credit CLO issuance is powering ahead with three deals, together valued at USD 1.27bn, pricing in a single day from market heavyweights Golub, Carlyle and MidCap

Private credit firms lean on origination partners to push into asset-backed lending
The private credit juggernaut keeps trundling on, with firms such as Carlyle and Fortress thrusting into the private asset-backed finance market, which by some estimates could be worth USD 30tn

We are seeing a slowdown in sales and earnings growth – Carlyle’s Lauren Basmadjian
The roll out of tariffs and economic uncertainty that kicked off earlier this year is starting to take a toll on portfolio companies, and Carlyle’s head of liquid credit is taking a more conservative stance as spreads remain remarkably tight

Carlyle promotes credit head to co-president amid senior reshuffle
Mark Jenkins joins John Redett and Jeff Nedelman as new co-presidents of Carlyle

Carlyle snags Goldman’s Alex Chi for head of direct lending
Chi most recently served as co-head of Americas private credit at Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Carlyle prices 2023-vintage US reset
The triple As on the manager's latest primary market deal cleared at SOFR plus 132bps