Fund launches & raises: archive
Every Fund launches & raises story in Private Credit, newest first. 120 stories
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Blackstone prices the week's only Euro CLO as supply thins
The week's only new European CLO cleared at the tight; the empty calendar says supply, not demand, is the constraint.
Eagle Point readies first infrastructure CLO
A Creditflux exclusive says the alternative credit firm's debut is imminent, testing whether the CLO funding structure can work on infrastructure debt.
Jana launches A$270m trust to fix private credit's cash drag
Customised mandates with Arcmont and Jefferies Credit Partners give wholesale investors control over deployment and the fees they pay during ramp-up.
Crescent doubles CLO equity bet with $232m final close
The sophomore fund more than doubles its 2018 predecessor and keeps first-loss risk in-house.
BridgeInvest banks $612M for open-ended RE credit fund
The Miami manager's open-ended fifth vintage is on pace to top $1 billion in LP commitments by 2027.
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Symetra's first 2026 CLO tests the new-issue line
The $459 million BSL print, arranged by Morgan Stanley, is new issuance in a tape crowded with resets — a small test of whether fresh collateral still clears.
Crescent doubles CLO equity bet with $232m close
Crescent's sophomore CLO equity fund closed at $232m, more than double its 2018 debut, showing that allocators still want the first-loss slice even as debt resets compress spreads.
Aura's credit sleeve does the heavy lifting
Aura's 40% credit sleeve is the liquidity layer that makes the quarterly promise credible, leaving the 60% PE allocation to carry returns.
CVC plants a $500m flag in private credit secondaries
CVC's debut private credit secondaries fund is small by design, a test of a market that has long talked about liquidity without producing much of it.
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Victory Capital agrees to buy CLO manager First Eagle for $7B
The acquisition is a bet that CLO management is a durable funding business as resets become private credit's liquidity valve.
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Perpetual credit funds trade the deployment clock for patience
Clearlake and Callan filed evergreen-style credit vehicles the same week traditional drawdown funds kept raising, building capital that can afford to wait.
Insurers return for Nuveen's fourth C-PACE vintage
The $3bn series total turns climate-linked real estate debt from a pilot into a portfolio line item.
Arrow's €5.2bn haul rewards the legacy-book trade
Arrow's FUM jumped 44% to €15.5bn while deployment barely moved, showing LPs are funding the purchase of legacy credit, not new origination volume.
Granite Asia raises $500m for Libra Hybrid from DBS and an insurer
DBS Private Bank and a leading insurer join Temasek, Khazanah and the Indonesia Investment Authority in a Pan-Asia credit strategy with eight mid-market deals since 2025.
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Barings hires DWS veteran to lead US wealth push
Brian Maute takes a newly created seat atop distribution across RIAs and family offices.
Sona prices Europe's first hybrid BSL-private credit CLO
The EUR 403.9m vehicle, arranged by Goldman Sachs, fuses syndicated and private credit collateral in one liability stack, giving direct lenders a new route to CLO funding.
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Neuberger prices $508M CLO at 120bp
Fresh-issue demand holds at the tight end as the reset wave rolls on.
Sona packs middle-market loans into a €400m European CLO
The rated vehicle puts private credit inside a broadly syndicated CLO, a structure other managers may adopt.
Domestic funds take 74% of India's shrinking private credit market
Domestic managers now command 74 percent of a smaller Indian private credit market, with global funds' share cut to 26 percent, per EY data reported by Alternative Credit Investor.
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Private Debt Investor's outlook puts private debt ahead of other asset classes
The publication's October 2 outlook cites robust fundraising and strong returns, but the summary carries no figures and hedges its claim.
Crestline's second European capital solutions fund closes at $625m
Nearly 75 percent above Fund I, the final close points to allocator appetite for collateral-backed lending in Europe's lower middle market.
M&G puts special-situations credit inside an ELTIF
A retail wrapper for the niche Private Debt Investor calls the most attractive since the financial crisis.
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Ninety One closes $404m Africa credit fund
The final close adds capital to an emerging-market credit series that has deployed $1.4 billion.
Northleaf closes first asset-based specialty finance fund at $450m
A $450m final close formalizes a $1.4bn track record in low-correlation private credit.
GPs pitch opportunistic credit as an all-weather evergreen
Private Debt Investor reports managers are selling opportunistic strategies as open-ended capital for every stage of the cycle.
Neuberger tokenized fund puts CLOs and leveraged loans on-chain
The $230bn manager's Securitize-built fund brings the private credit income stream to on-chain investors.
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Churchill launches capital solutions strategy with King Street hire
The Nuveen unit's new desk for customized financing shows where Churchill expects demand as direct lending volume sags.
LSTA's 2012 CLO conflict letter awaits an SEC answer
The trade group's comment on the SEC's securitization conflict proposal predates today's CLO market. No final rule has landed since.
Danish pensions anchor Urban Partners' €200m real estate credit close
Industriens Pension and Lægernes Pension supplied the first-close capital for the firm's second property debt vehicle.
Manager selection becomes the H2 2026 return driver
Wider return spreads make the manager pick the decisive call for allocators in H2 2026.
Janus Henderson's AAA CLO ETF tops $30bn as demand swells
The $5.7bn that has flowed into JAAA this year shows retail demand for CLO paper has staying power.
Serone hires three, targets first US CLO by year-end
Serone's year-end goal would add a new issuer to the US CLO primary market as direct lending cools.
Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF draws $5.7bn in 2026 inflows
Year-to-date inflows make it the second-largest active fixed income ETF, a daily-liquidity buyer of triple-A CLO paper.
LSTA filed a 2012 comment on the SEC's securitization conflicts rule
A gated, dated comment letter keeps the trade group on the record in a rulemaking CLO managers still watch.
Onex Credit posts record fees while credit marks slip
Onex Credit's record fee quarter and a $500m fund close with AIG show how the firm is leaning on structured credit, even as a $5m mark loss muddies the picture.
Star Mountain closes first collateralised fund obligation with Evercore
The rated vehicle gives insurers and institutions investment-grade exposure to US lower middle-market loans.
Pension anchor opens Homestead's first agriculture credit fund
A $150 million state pension commitment puts Homestead Capital's first agriculture private credit fund on track toward its $350 million target.
Three managers price $400 million CLO deals on a single Friday
Napier Park, Post Advisory and Blue Owl each priced a $400 million broadly syndicated loan CLO on Friday, per Creditflux.
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Partners Group closes $1bn Asian private credit mandate
An open-ended evergreen with a co-investment sleeve signals a deliberate institutional build in Asia Pacific direct lending.
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Palmer Square explores sale while weighing growth options
The CLO and private-credit manager is in early conversations about a possible sale, with organic and inorganic growth options under consideration, according to Creditflux.