TD Asset Management steps into private credit, launching new fund
The Canadian asset manager has added origination staff and is collaborating with investment banking division TD Securities Inc for direct lending origination

Eldridge, Arctos tapped to manage sports and media fund for affluent investors
Registered investment advisor CAIS Advisors has selected the two managers for a new private markets fund that will become available to investors in January

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

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

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

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

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

Generali Investments backs new asset-based finance strategy
Generali-affiliated Aperture Investors also hired a new global head of asset-based finance

FS Investments rebrands to Future Standard, plans private credit product for wealthy in Europe
EXCLUSIVE: The alts manager integrates private equity subsidiary Portfolio Advisors under the new brand and plans to introduce a credit product for wealthy investors in Europe

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

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

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

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

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