Golub keeps up the pace with big static BSL CLO
Golub has returned to the market with another typically sizeable offering, adding the fifth-largest deal of the year to their portfolio 

Audax adds new middle market CLO
Audax Senior Debt CLO 8, arranged by BNP Paribas, was upsized to USD 505.5m

CIFC prices first middle market CLO
CIFC priced its first middle market deal last week through its direct lending affiliate LBC Credit Partners

Massachusetts Water Authority narrows proposals for opportunistic credit search
Massachusetts Water Resource Authority Retirement System narrows opportunistic credit fund recipients down to three candidates. 

Audax becomes first manager of 2023 to reset a CLO
Audax Private Debt has become the first manager of 2023 to complete a CLO reset, teaming with Bank of America to rework its 2020 middle market deal named Audax Senior Debt CLO 4

Panagram assembles private mid-market CLO
Panagram Asset Management has put together the latest in a series of middle market loan CLOs in the form of Cedar Crest 2022-1

Monroe prints second middle market CLO of the year
Monroe Capital Partners priced its first middle market CLO since February on Tuesday, and the largest middle market CLO in four months

LP round up: Magnetar and Värde among winners as $3 billion flows to credit
Institutional investors allocated at least $3 billion to credit funds in August

Mid market CLO issuance tops $7 billion with first AB deal of year
Middle market CLO issuance for 2022 surpassed $7 billion on Friday after AB priced its first mid market new issue of 2022 named ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO XI

LP round up: private credit takes big slice of inflows as 10% portfolio share projected for 2026
Institutional investors revealed nearly $4 billion allocations to credit funds in July, with recipients including Angelo Gordon, Apollo, Ares, BlackRock, Brookfield, CarVal, Comvest, Deerpath, KKR, Schroders and Sixth Street

Apollo invests $1 billion in IG CLOs, launches secondary solutions platform and cuts BDC fees
In its earnings call, Apollo highlighted the resilience of the CLO asset class, strong deployment in direct lending, upcoming reduction in management fees for its publicly traded BDC and the launch of a new secondaries and sponsor solutions platforn, seeded by Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Castlelake climbs to $1.6 billion final close on fourth aviation fund
The Minneapolis-based firm says it has deployed just over half of the $1.6 billion fund, which invests in “high quality, younger mid-life aircraft and related aviation assets”

Antares and Palmer Square give new life to legacy CLOs via resets
Antares Capital Management and Palmer Square Capital Management each reset a CLO on Tuesday, with the two deals worth a combined $964.8 million

Credit Fundraising: September breaks 2021 record and poses question - is it sustainable?
The third quarter ended with $36.5 billion being raised in credit last month, doubling July and August figures. Several of the new funds have embedded Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation or ESG criteria at the heart of their investment thesis   

PennantPark wraps up 2020 with second mid market CLO via GreensLedge and Capital One
New York-based direct lender PennantPark Investment Advisers priced its second CLO in late December, teaming up once more with GreensLedge and Capital One to issue the $300.7 million deal

Sagard holds $650 million first close on second non-sponsored private credit fund
Sagard Credit Partners has held a $650 million first close on its second vintage credit fund, Sagard Credit Partners II. The vehicle has a $1.3 billion hard cap

New Hampshire pension invests $50 million in US direct lending
​New Hampshire Retirement System has allocated $50 million to a US direct lending manage with which it has a relationship, having committed $40 million and $50 million to predecessor funds

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub and Natixis increase their leads
August saw over $2 billion of issuance in the mid market space with managers that have been active this year, returning managers and debut managers all pricing last month. 

Mid market CLO league tables: Barclays makes entrance as AB picks up the pace
Barclays was involved in its first ever middle market CLO, as July marked the first month of 2019 that Natixis did not arrange a mid market CLO this year.

Oaktree reports distressed gains over year despite Q4 losses
Oaktree was not immune from challenging fourth quarter globally. Its distressed debt strategy, for instance, returned a gross loss of 1.5%

Texas pension fund earmarks $650 million to four private debt funds
Angelo Gordon, HIG Whitehorse and Värde have secured commitments from the Texas pension fund for their direct lending funds

Comvest raises $836 million for leveraged direct lending fund
Following its rebrand in November, middle-market lender Comvest Credit Partners has exceeded the $650 million target size for it fourth direct lending fund 

Ares keeps up direct lending growth and plans new credit fund launch
Ares Management’s credit business just keeps growing, with the firm planning a new fund launch and a continued push into European direct lending, according to a recent results presentation