Bain special situations, SMBC launch European lending joint venture
The two will provide up to EUR 1.5bn in senior secured debt to borrowers across the UK and Europe in a flexible strategy

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

T. Rowe Price and OHA launch CLO-investing credit fund for wealthy Australians
The Flexible Credit Income Fund AUD has been specifically designed for wholesale investors, and will invest in CLOs

Morgan Stanley launches private market fund for European individual investors
The new product from Morgan Stanley Investment Management will invest across private equity, private credit, real assets and some public assets

MidOcean gears up for second CLO equity fund
EXCLUSIVE: The investment manager previously raised more than USD 300m for its debut CLO Equity Fund I in 2024

Credit funds at a glance – October 2025
Our roundup of top performers, fundraising and moves in credit

BlackRock launches securitised fund investing up to 30% in CLOs
The BGF Securitised Fund has a remit to invest in AAA to BBB tranches of European and US CLOs 

Eyre Street Capital targets USD 800m for sustainable private credit
The firm is launching its second “sustainable” private credit fund, which will find complex private credit opportunities that will help businesses build environmental resilience

BDT & MSD launches senior direct lending fund
The new fund comes after the firm hired Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s former global head of private credit earlier this year

Reckoner Capital plans CLO ETF launch in Europe
EXCLUSIVE: The team led by John Kim, previously the head of Eldgridge’s Panagram, has already started two CLO ETFs in the US

Crescent announces CLO ETF with Advisors Asset Management
The two claim that the new AAM CLO ETF is the lowest cost CLO ETF in the industry, charging a net expense ratio of 0.18%

New Reckoner CLO ETF targets BBB- and BB- tranches
The Reckoner BBB-B CLO ETF debuts just three months after the asset manager launched the market’s first leveraged triple A CLO ETF 

Credit funds at a glance – August 2025
Our roundup of top performers, fundraising and moves in credit

Muzinich & Co readies second Asia-focused private credit fund
EXCLUSIVE: The direct lending sophmore fund could be as large as USD 1bn

HSBC AM launches evergreen fund targeting trade, working capital assets
The new private credit strategy will invest in assets such as receivables and payables finance, trade loans and other instruments around the world

Apollo to launch three evergreen funds in Europe to tap individual investors
Apollo has secured regulatory approval in Luxembourg for three semi-liquid evergreen private markets funds including two credit ones

Simplify Asset Management launches private credit ETF
The new exchange traded fund will track the universe of business development funds and listed funds that invest in private credit as captured by the VettaFi Private Credit Index

EXCLUSIVE: Palmer Square to launch European versions of its US CLO ETFs next year
Exclusive: Palmer Square will roll out European versions of PSQO and PSQA next year

Blue Owl launches alternative credit fund for individual investors
The new product is structured as an interval fund and launched with USD 850m

King Street debuts new long/short credit UCITS fund
The fund launched on International Asset Management’s UCITS platform with USD 100m in commitments

Credit funds at a glance – July 2025
Our roundup of top performers, fundraising and moves in credit

Palmer Square lists its European CLO ETF on the London Stock Exchange
The Palmer Square EUR CLO Senior Debt Index UCITS ETF will now be available to UK-based institutional investors

BC Partners Credit launches evergreen fund for dedicated specialty finance strategy
EXCLUSIVE: The new vehicle will be seeded with eight performing specialty finance loans

Neuberger Berman launches asset-based credit fund for wealthy investors
The latest private credit vehicle is structured as an interval fund and will offer wealthy US individual investors daily valuation and limited quarterly liquidity

Credit funds at a glance – June 2025
Our roundup of top performers, fundraising and moves in credit