Robin Blumenthal

In the US, rulemakers are pondering how to open up private markets, but managers should know that transparency is a vital accompaniment.

Small is beautiful – unless it happens to be a loan to a small business made in the early 2020s, events this autumn suggest.

Oaktree’s inaugural, closed-end asset-based finance fund will focus on capital solutions to a broad spectrum of originators, including equipment leasing, consumer and infrastructure.

Attendees and panelists at the New York Forum saw increased opportunity for the strategy.

Questions raised over extent of insurers’ borrowing from the Federal Home Loan Banks.

Managers are looking to where there’s an apparent need for capital, including opportunistic credit.

Whether the trend is up or down – and by how much - depends on who’s counting and with what data.

The seventh vintage of the North American senior debt fund more than doubled its target

The firm is using Credit Partners III, a senior secured, direct lending fund, to focus on non-sponsored borrowers.