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This time, debt funds are picking a bigger fightBuoyed by fundraising success, the likes of GSO are writing bigger tickets and widening their challenge to the banks.
PDI annual awards 2018: Our global winnersThe global winners and runners-up of the PDI annual awards 2018.
PDI annual awards 2018: Our Americas winnersCrestline, Golub and Oaktree were all double winners in the Americas section of our annual awards.
- PDI annual awards 2018: Our Europe winners
Ares was the only firm to triumph in more than one category as the European spoils were shared evenly around.
Ares agrees £1bn loan for UK IT companyThe refinancing of Daisy Group shows the ability of private credit to extend huge loans that could not be provided by a bank.
Ares hires UBS executive director for Asia pushMichael Chen spent more than five years at the Swiss bank’s asset management arm, leading institutional relationship activities.
Ares posts double-digit direct lending returns for 2018The firm raised almost $32bn for its credit strategies, with leverage facilities included, the bulk of which came from Ares Capital Europe IV.
Europe overcomes its leverage stigmaA willingness for funds to offer leveraged options is enticing more investors from the other side of the Atlantic.
POBA seeks mid-market direct lending managersThe Korean institutional investor plans to hire European managers by late February
Fundraising took a tumble in 2018Last year saw the lowest aggregate annual total since 2014, while the number of individual fund closes also fell markedly.