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Consumer lending on the rise despite economic pressuresAs banks sell US consumer loans and insurers bid up prices, private credit managers are split between leaning in, staying underweight and waiting for distress.
Ares grows AUM and fees as it moves beyond USHigher fees from diversification to Europe and alternative credit help boost platform and drive rise in fee-paying assets in Q3.
Ares’ public BDC agrees to buy Apollo-backed rivalThe cash-and-stock deal calls for holders of MidCap Financial Investment Corp to receive a 30% premium to the pre-deal price.
Three key trends in fund financeCompetitive pricing, innovation and a growing lender ecosystem are fuelling the products’ appeal.
PEI Private Credit 200: North American GPs reinforce their dominanceOur annual ranking of private credit's biggest fundraisers also shows capital raising increasing overall – and rising especially fast for the largest fund managers.
What follows the ‘SaaSpocalypse’?The worst of the software sell-off phase may be over, but private credit firms are still assessing the extent to which it will impact US portfolios over the coming months and years. David Brooke reports.
North American GPs dominant as fundraising acceleratesOur PEI Private Credit 200 ranking shows capital raising increasing overall – and accelerating especially fast for the largest fund managers.
Apollo’s capital solutions business drives record fees in Q2New York-based manager’s origination machine has grown AUM by 25% in one year to $1.05trn.
Ares posts strong fundraising, deployment in Q2 despite BDC withdrawalsAres Management raises a record $36.4bn in capital and deploys $36bn
Oaktree adds quartet for new Asia private credit strategyThe private debt specialist GP has hired investment professionals from Singapore state fund GIC and rival managers Ares, Goldman Sachs and Partners Group.