Goldman launches private credit fund for retirement portfolios
The product will be used in a retirement product backed by Great Gray, BlackRock and Wilshire Advisors to give individual investors access to public and private assets

Swedish CLO investor YMER prepares equity-tilted fund launch for Q3
The investor is targeting EUR 400m to EUR 500m and expanding to a more global investor base

BlackRock plans private markets LifePath retirement fund for 2026
The asset manager, which closed its HPS acquisition earlier this month, looks to launch its own proprietary private-public market target date fund

Carlyle rolls out investment grade private debt fund
EXCLUSIVE: The IG asset-backed fund is structured as an evergreen vehicle and targets an institutional investor base

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

Reckoner Capital Management unveils market's first-ever levered CLO ETF
The employee-owned firm, headed by former Panagram management, said leverage in the new RAAA fund would be limited to 50%

Royal London gears up for debut CLO issue later this year
EXCLUSIVE: The asset management firm, part of the Royal London Group, has hired an arranger and is planning to price its inaugural deal later this year in Europe  

FS Investments readies opportunistic credit fund, targets USD 750m
EXCLUSIVE: The vehicle, which will be the second opportunistic fund from FS, is set to launch in the third quarter of this year

State Street Investment Management eyes CLO entrance
The traditional asset manager is planning to launch a new CLO business, sources familiar tell Creditflux.

India's Vivriti explores issuing country’s first CLO
EXCLUSIVE: Indian asset manager in early stages of planning country’s first middle market CLO

Ares launches direct lending fund for European wealth investors
The firm’s first ELTIF product will give individual investors access to its existing European direct lending strategy

CPP Investments backs Varde’s subline strategy launch
The Canadian pension giant provided USD 300m of strategic equity toward the new fund finance platform

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

BlackRock pushes private markets for revenue diversification
The world’s largest asset manager is planning to launch three new private credit products for the wealth channel, in addition to its purchase of private credit shop HPS

US-based Diameter Capital moves to enter Europe as a CLO manager
EXCLUSIVE: The credit-focused alternative asset manager has made hires in Europe to issue CLOs in the region, according to sources

Nomura public-private credit fund opens to the masses with SEC rule change
EXCLUSIVE: The new SEC regime repealed a decades long rule preventing non-accredited investors from gaining access to most private market asset funds

Tikehau launches semi-liquid private debt fund for broader investor base
The new fund is the first semi-liquid private credit vehicle available to investors other than French life insurance companies

Goldman launches its ninth mezzanine private debt fund
The latest fund follows the USD 15.2bn West Street Mezzanine Partners VIII that closed in 2023

Aegon AM launches fund for subscription line financing
The new fund will raise capital from institutional investors in Europe and the UK

Muzinich launches new European CLO platform with Eagle Point as strategic partner
The boutique US CLO manager plans to build a European platform that will support "a strong, multi-year pipeline of European CLO issuance"

Swiss investment manager LGT launches new European CLO platform
The alternative investments management arm of the LGT Group has unveiled a new CLO business, the latest addition to the European CLO management space  

Kohlberg launches debut private credit drawdown fund
The middle-market private equity firm recently priced its first middle market CLO

Remora Capital Partners to launch inaugural private BDC
The firm expects the private BDC to reach a size of around USD 500m in around a year’s time

JPMorgan’s asset management arm seeks to raise direct lending fund
EXCLUSIVE: The asset management unit is raising capital from institutional investors for direct lending as the bank steps up lending from its balance sheet.

BMO Asset Management launches market’s latest CLO ETF
The fund from the Canadian asset manager will invest in AAA-rated CLOs